Though Seattle is still a young city, growing and changing, much of its
short past is already lost-but not forgotten. Generations of Seattleites
have fond memories of restaurants, local television shows, stores, and
other landmarks that evoke a less sophisticated, more informal city.
This new book explores Seattle at a time when timber and fish were more
lucrative than airplanes and computers, when the city was a place of
kitschy architecture and homespun humor and was full of boundless hope
for a brighter future. These rare and vintage images hearken back to the
marvels of the 1962 World's Fair, shopping trips to Frederick & Nelson
and I. Magnin, dinners at Rosellini's, dancing at the Trianon Ballroom,
traveling on the ferry Kalakala, rooting for baseball's Rainiers, and
local personalities including Stan Boreson, J. P. Patches, and Wunda
Wunda.