16 Replies to "TRAFFIC/TRANSIT TODAY: Thursday updates; weekend Highway 99 closure reminder; this week's 'Throwback' photo"

• Alan August 20, 2015 (9:03 am)

  The biggest difference in that view is Terminal 5. I was first thinking that we were looking at the steel mill, but then realized that it was in the wrong place. It must be the old creosoting plant. The only picture I could find of it was here: http://clerk.seattle.gov/~scripts/nph-brs.exe?s1=creosoting&S2=&S3=&l=100&Sect7=THUMBON&Sect6=HITOFF&Sect5=PHOT1&Sect4=AND&Sect3=PLURON&d=PHO2&p=1&u=%2F~public%2Fphot1.htm&r=1&f=G

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  I found the 34th & Fauntleroy location of the groundbreaking image puzzling, since there isn’t any such intersection. The house in the upper left is 4135 Fauntleroy Way SW, which would be in between 34th and 35th, if 34th went through. So the equipment is parked on what is now the divider between Fauntleroy Way and the approach to the bridge.

  • WSB August 20, 2015 (9:25 am)

    I suspect there was some eminent domain. I happened onto this section of the archives last night while searching for something entirely different and found a boatload of fascination that would make a great breakout story all its own, including aerials, and also some different angles of places near the work zone – This one in particular, I was trying to compare to current Google Street View to see if it’s the view looking at the building that currently houses Zebra, Zaw, etc., on the NW corner of 35th/Fauntleroy:
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    http://clerk.seattle.gov/~scripts/nph-brs.exe?s1=72390.NUM.&Sect6=HITOFF&Sect5=PHOT5&Sect4=AND&d=PHO2&l=1&p=1&u=/~public/phot1.htm&r=1&f=G

• KD August 20, 2015 (9:38 am)

  The Space Needle was brand new and the ‘Walking On Logs’ kids hadn’t been ‘born’ yet! ; )

• David August 20, 2015 (10:01 am)

  WSB, I think you’re correct about that photo being of the area where Zebra, Zaw, etc. are. The sharp turn curving off to the right looks like the current sharp turn onto northbound 35th, and the little island is there too.

• Alan August 20, 2015 (10:05 am)

  I don’t think that is the same building, but you are correct on the location view of Zaw, etc. The little brick house to the right is gone, but the duplex next to it (4131 35th Ave SW) is still there. They apparently took out the store and the house, then put in a retaining wall in order to build the strip mall.

  Google maps failed me on Fauntleroy Way street view. I had to go to Bing Maps to get the street view of 4135 Fauntleroy Way.

• Alan August 20, 2015 (10:26 am)

  According to King County, the building that Zaw is in was built in 1986. So it isn’t a remodel of the old store.

• miws August 20, 2015 (10:47 am)

  I wonder when that grocery was demolished?

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  My memory doesn’t travel as far back as ’62, (would have been just about a month shy of my fourth Birthday, when the late August pics were taken), but the only thing I remember at the 1986 built strip mall site before ’86, was a gas station.

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  Mike

• ClayJustSayin' August 20, 2015 (11:32 am)

  I don’t know what Zebra and Zaw are, but note on the picture that the Needle is a little to the right of the road direction of travel at that point. Then open Google maps and get the road in a view along with the Needle. The section of road that is pointing just left of the Needle would put the car in the picture closer to SW Yancy, with 35th being more than a block behind.

• AIDM August 20, 2015 (1:20 pm)

  Wow, I had no idea that blackberry bushes didn’t exist in 1962! ;-)

• lynda August 20, 2015 (3:49 pm)

  That grocery store was named Longs Grocery. They had a big walk in freezer that I used to go in on hot days. I have a better pic of it somewhere. Also tjere was a Boys Club across the street from Longs right in the middle of the street where they later built the Freeway.

  • WSB August 20, 2015 (3:52 pm)

    Thanks, Lynda! If you ever find that photo and can scan it, we’d be happy to include it in a followup. The archives have a lot of photos from this project, but since they were taken with the interest of the utilities/road crews, they don’t often have details of interesting side points like the businesses!

• Alan August 20, 2015 (3:52 pm)

  @Clay, I think this has become confusing as we are discussing several different images. The “throwback” image was taken just west of Bradford St. You can see the turnout on the north side of the street, which is located at Charlestown.

  The second image is the one mentioned and linked to in the post, which is at 4135 Fauntleroy Way.
  http://clerk.seattle.gov/~scripts/nph-brs.exe?s1=69269.NUM.&Sect6=HITOFF&Sect5=PHOT5&Sect4=AND&d=PHO2&l=1&p=1&u=/~public/phot1.htm&r=1&f=G

  Finally (maybe), WSB posted a comment which linked to a picture facing the NW Corner of 35th and Fauntleroy. http://clerk.seattle.gov/~scripts/nph-brs.exe?s1=72390.NUM.&Sect6=HITOFF&Sect5=PHOT5&Sect4=AND&d=PHO2&l=1&p=1&u=/~public/phot1.htm&r=1&f=G

  I know it’s confusing, as I found myself editing my comments to try and clarify which image I was referring to.

• Mark32 August 20, 2015 (4:38 pm)

  AIDM, I was thinking the same thing. Why can’t my tax dollars go towards cleaning up both sides of the roadway, maybe even the median?

• Channel 95 August 20, 2015 (6:04 pm)

  Is that the Space Needle or the KJR’s radio transmitter on Harbor Island?

• sc August 20, 2015 (6:40 pm)

  I like the sound of “Fauntleroy Freeway” in the picture title!

• WS Native Luddite August 21, 2015 (7:01 am)

  I grew up on 37th SW & SW Andover st. I remember riding bicycles with my friends on this very spot before the freeway opened. We did it on a weekend day, when there was no construction or anyone there. There were no trespassing signs, stating we weren’t supposed to, which of course made it even more exciting. It was like when you are annoying your older sibling & they tell you to go play on the freeway; we literally did! Those were the days!

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