Friday Tour #2

The second waterfront tour included some interesting sights.

First we looked through binoculars on the roof of Pier 66.



We saw a boat at the Pier 66 marina that holds 6,000 gallons of fuel in its main tank. It costs $24,000 just to fill the tank!

Quinn's sharp eyes quickly spotted crabs, starfish, and salmon in the water.



We saw this cool bike stand/sculpture at the aquarium.

We will come back on another Friday to see Duncan Moore dive in the big fish tank.



Lauren spotted this plaque in the sidewalk at Pier 62/63.



We talked to Rick Williams while he carved a totem for his brother John. We smelled the cedar of a smaller version he was carving and sniffed the sage in his smudge pot.



We ate lunch at Ivar's and read a story about Ivar Haglund by Seattle painter William Cumming. Cumming told about Ivar's bedroom being filled with bees.

We stopped at a Stonington gallery to view Tlingit artists's work, especially a green glass octopus.

Martin picked our last stop at the Klondike Museum where we saw a replica of 1 ton of gold bars worth over $14 million at today's prices.

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Seattle History Resource

I found this great online resource for Seattle waterfront history. The site is maintained by Paul Dorpat, Jean Sherrard, and Bérangère Lomont. Not only are there posts about and pictures of the waterfront, but other Seattle and Washington history topics as well.

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History Topics

Here are the history topics we can investigate and the number of votes:

8 – Great Fire of 1889
6 – Century 21 (World Fair of 1962)
5 – Gold Rush of 1896
4 – Logging/coal
4 – Alaska/Yukon/Pacific Exhibition of 1909
2 – Railroads
2 – Chief Seattle

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Old Seattle Maps

When the Denny Party arrived here in 1851, about 500 Duwamish Indians lived around Elliott Bay, and hundreds more in villages from Shilshole Bay to present-day Renton. Elliott Bay appears here as drawn by a U.S. Navy coastal survey in 1854. At that time, these shores were blanketed with a coastal forest of Douglas firs, cedars and hemlock, interspersed with open spaces maintained by the natives. (from the Seattle Times).

More maps can be seen here.

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Back in the Day

Check out this map of the Native settlements before Seattle was a city. Later land fill and landmarks are included for reference.

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