Seattle Then and Now

by James Maddison Collins

Book Overview

Celebrating America's favorite cityscapes, this series combines historic interest and contemporary beauty. Then And Now features fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571452443
• ISBN13: 9781571452443
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 11.4" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

A book about a town that literally recreated itself

This is a really interesting coffee table book with great historical photographs. This book illustrates how ambitious the city & urban planners were remaking the difficult hilly terrain often interrupted with water into what is today the Seattle & the "Eastside." I disagree with the other negative reviews of this book who claim to speak from a native Seattle-ite point of view. Lets face it, the only native Seattle-ites are Norwegians & native americans. The dark nostalgic genre of illustration aptly captures Seattle's "dark" historic cultural spirit comprising "skid-road," logging, & prostitution. Today Seattle enjoys that same spirit as manifested in its rich modern culture of "depression", "non-traditional life styles", grunge and the birth place of more serial killers per capita than anywhere else. Viva Seattle !

Great Book

I bought this book for my daughter. We both enjoy it. We have spend serveral hours together pouring over the book.

Coffee table book

The book shows pictures of Seattle then and now covering a lot of areas like Pioneer Square, First Hill, Belltown, Fremont and some of the water front. Though I wish more of the water front would have been covered. There are a lot of historical buildings that are no longer there shown in the book. A description is given for each picture of what area it is, what the pictures is of and when it was taken. The book shows a lot of change that has occurred in the city and that fact that the Brooklyn has probably changed the least. It's a fabulous coffee table book and a great conversation piece.