Seattle Then and Now

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Summary: Interesting, But . . .
Review: Casually thumbing through this book at a book store one glaring error exploded off page 87. Although it is captioned as being a photo of Third Avenue, it is obviously a photo of First Avenue (note the Alexis Hotel).

Look through this book while in your dentist's waiting room, but don't use it as a resource for your junior high school history project. Instead, you should use "Seattle Now and Then" by Paul Dorpat, which is a compilation of articles written and published over many years by the Seattle Times (AISN 0961435704).

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I bought this book for my daughter. We both enjoy it. We have spend serveral hours together pouring over the book.

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Summary: Great Book
Review: I bought this book for my daughter. We both enjoy it. We have spend serveral hours together pouring over the book.

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Summary: Coffee table book
Review: The book shows pictures of Seattle then and now covering a lot of areas like Pioneer Square, First Hill, Belltown, Fremont and some of the water front. Though I wish more of the water front would have been covered. There are a lot of historical buildings that are no longer there shown in the book. A description is given for each picture of what area it is, what the pictures is of and when it was taken. The book shows a lot of change that has occurred in the city and that fact that the Brooklyn has probably changed the least. It's a fabulous coffee table book and a great conversation piece.

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Summary: The author did not do his homework
Review: This book could not have been written by a Seattle native - it simply contains too many errors and ommissions. Several items are mislabeled and the dialog for each picture is vapid.

Additionally, it would not have been that difficult to match the "now" to the "then" photos. Many of the "now" pictures were taken at different angles and with the wrong lens.

A good concept but poorly executed.

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Summary: The author did not do his homework
Review: This book could not have been written by a Seattle native - it simply contains too many errors and ommissions. Several items are mislabeled and the dialog for each picture is vapid.

Additionally, it would not have been that difficult to match the "now" to the "then" photos. Many of the "now" pictures were taken at different angles and with the wrong lens.

A good concept but poorly executed.

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Summary: A book about a town that literally recreated itself
Review: This is a really interesting coffee table book with great historical photographs. This book illustrates how ambitious the city & urban planners were remaking the difficult hilly terrain often interrupted with water into what is today the Seattle & the "Eastside." I disagree with the other negative reviews of this book who claim to speak from a native Seattle-ite point of view. Lets face it, the only native Seattle-ites are Norwegians & native americans. The dark nostalgic genre of illustration aptly captures Seattle's "dark" historic cultural spirit comprising "skid-road," logging, & prostitution. Today Seattle enjoys that same spirit as manifested in its rich modern culture of "depression", "non-traditional life styles", grunge and the birth place of more serial killers per capita than anywhere else. Viva Seattle !