My Green Lake | Seattle's Green Lake Blog

Seattle’s 1947 July 4th celebration ended at 9:00 pm with several hours of fireworks at Green Lake. It took the Seattle police an hour or more to unsnarl the traffic jam of 50,000 cars filled with spectators. This photo, taken by Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer John M. “Hack” Miller, shows the 1947 fireworks display at Green Lake. Miller exposed the same photographic plate several times to get the image. – MOHAI While the fireworks went off over our sweet lake, far more interesting events were taking place in the Lake City neighborhood … The summer of 1947, as all conspiracy nuts theorists…