This story comes to us via Kat Chow. Kat is a student in the University of Washington Department of Communication News Laboratory, an advanced reporting class in which students produce news stories and packages for local neighborhood and ethnic newspapers and online sites. The Green Lake Bowl, which was first opened in 1950 at the intersection of NE Ravenna Blvd & Woodlawn Ave NE, was a neighborhood hotspot until it struck out and closed down in 1982. The bowling alley’s actual structure was built way back in 1923 and was 9,070 square feet, according to tax records that Ed Carlos, who grew up…
Posts Tagged ‘1960s’
Inside the fallout shelter under I-5
Green Lake has four fallout shelters, left over from Cold War days. The biggest of the four was built in 1962, under I-5: Trudy Weckworth reported on the shelter’s construction in the September 13, 1962 edition of North Central Outlook: 200-person fallout shelter to be ready by November 1 A large reinforced concrete fallout shelter is being completed under the Freeway, between NE 68th and NE 69th, at Weedin Place NE. Built at a cost of $67,300, the 60-foot circular structure has been planned to provide shelter for 200 persons for two weeks. It will provide kitchen and sleeping facilities, self-contained emergency…
Sunday Photo: The Green Lake Motel
On Sundays, we feature a great shot of our park or neighborhood from the MyGreenLake Flickr Pool. This week’s photo, by Grundlepuck, is historical in nature. Shot in May 10, 2008, it features the roadside sign from the now-closed Green Lake Motel, which once operated out of 8900 Aurora Ave N. The Green Lake Motel was one of many roadside inns built when state Route 99 (a.k.a. Aurora Ave) was the main north-south arterial through Seattle. “The motel-ificication” of Route 99 took off in 1962, according Leonard Garfield of the Museum of History and Industry, who was quoted in this 2009 seattlepi.com Big Blog post. 1962…
Photographs from Daniel Bagley Elementary’s past
The Seattle School District Archives recently uploaded several historical photographs to flickr. One set, titled Bagley, chronicles the history of Green Lake’s Daniel Bagley Elementary (7821 Stone Ave N). Here are some highlights, published with permission from the Seattle School District Archives: A historical timeline of Daniel Bagley School can be found here.
