"Mountlake Bridge Opens to allow the passage of hundreds of boats on their way to Lake Washington for the opening of the annual regatta which is a feature of the Seattle's Seafare (sic) Celebration C-416 Ektachrome by Josef Scaylea"
"Seattle - Great Boating Center. Boats gather in Portage Bay for opening day regatta on Lake Washington - a yearly event. Seattle Yacht Club at right, University of Washington campus in background. Ektachrome by Josef Scaylea"
2 comments:
I wonder how old these are. The trees are so sparse and tidy.
I'm not very good at dating photos even though I love to examine them! I found another copy of the open Montlake bridge at UW digital archives and they don't have a date on it, either. If you click on it to get to the bigger image, I noticed the guy on the far right is wearing a hat and jacket so I think that one is sometime in the 60s or earlier. The bottom one there is no evidence of the north rim even starting to be built - that was completed in 1968. I'm sure there is something else in or not in that postcard that can help me date it but I'm still looking. I tried to find out a bit more about when Josef Scaylea images were sold as postcards but no luck on that in my brief search. His photographic prints are still for sale.
Post a Comment