Vintage shots from days gone by!

Looks like Seattle to me, highway signs all say Washington.

 

She's been on this thread already (including a few re-posts)! "Shakin' a tree over here, boss."

 

1934 Seattle



1st Ave. and Columbia 1916

 

Seattle 1916 Snow

 

Nope, Portland - the signs still point to Seattle (I-5) from downtown Portland, just like I-5 in Seattle has Portland signs.

 

Can anyone here explain the use of paving a street with Wood as in the scene of Seattle Washington jus now ?

scrubba

 

This should be fun. lets hear all the reason

 

I think they called it wood block paving - lots of sawmills around and it was pretty fast and cheap. Not really done that way anymore...

 

1956 Olds Golden Rocket

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1957 ca Undercover narcs as truck drivers

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I'll take a stab at it. Once upon a time timber was often used to fill in the spaces between railroad trackage. It may still be used in places at R.R. crossings. Incidently, those tracks in the pics were all removed in the 50's and the Alaskan Way viaduct was built directly above. Now the viaduct is scheduled to be dismanteled. That is the Seattle waterfront and the street is built on tidelands filled in with material from hills of Seattle that were regraded down in the early 20th century. There are the bones of old ships buried in there too, just like San Francisco.

 

ther were wooden roads in the Desert across calif and az as late as the 1940

 

That sounds right.

 

Automobiles gathered outside the Delmonico Hotel, Port Townsend, Washington, ca. 1925

 

Paint shop of the William O. Mckay Company showing workers painting automobiles, Seattle, ca. 1929

 

http://www.blm.gov/ca/st/en/fo/elcentro/arch_cult/plankrd.html

 

Yes, 99W sends you North to Seattle from Portland and 26 sends you West to the coast. A map search will confirm it's Portland.

 

Houston , Texas

 

Do you know the name of this fellow? He looks like a guy I once knew in the Navy.