Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day

This Week's Best Old Photos

This Week's Best Old Photos.

Growing Seattle; San Francisco earthquake; Berlin Wall.

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Brenda Elthon
Apr 08, 2023
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The City of Seattle engaged in a thirty-year engineering project at the beginning of the twentieth century that leveled a massive 220-foot- tall clay hill that lay north of the central business district.

The project was spearheaded by the city engineer, Reginald Heber Thomson, who believed that replacing the hill with flat land and level roadways would …

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