The Old VA Hospital by auntietk

Photography • Architecture • posted on Jul 23, 2016

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The view from Seattle's Great Wheel. The building on the left is the Smith Tower, once the tallest building West of the Mississippi at 38 floors. I will forever think of Pacific Tower (the building that dominates the hill in the center of the picture) as "The Old VA Hospital" even though it never actually carried that designation, and indeed, before my birth, became the Public Health Hospital. However, when I was young, whenever my grandfather had to go to the hospital for anything, grandma would say, "I'm taking him to the VA," and that's how I always refer to the building. In recent times it housed Amazon, and now rents space to the State of Washington and a local community college. The clock tower on the far right is the King Street Station. It's always fun doing tourist stuff at home. :)

Comments (16)

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wysiwig

1:03AM | Sat, 23 July 2016

A beautiful shot of your home town. I love the clouds.

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Faemike55

1:30AM | Sat, 23 July 2016

Wonderful photo! I remember the King Street Station - for all the times I went to Seattle for surgery. Thanks for the recall of the memories

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AidanaWillowRaven

1:31AM | Sat, 23 July 2016

Cool shot. :D

I'm glad me and mine are not the only ones who vacation in-town. We even go so far as to rent a hotel room for five days. We take the cat, too, lol.

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Freethinker56

3:29AM | Sat, 23 July 2016

Cool info .wonderful capture and those cloud really stand out Bravo

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yantramstudio

3:41AM | Sat, 23 July 2016

very beautiful!!

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durleybeachbum

7:03AM | Sat, 23 July 2016

So interesting! I have favourited this to peruse the info at length

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bmac62

2:35PM | Sat, 23 July 2016

Outstanding! Your 70D outdoes my IPhone by a mile:-) We may want to revisit Seattle before the summer is over now that I have a much more portable camera. Great composition including several iconic Seattle points of interest.

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npauling

2:41PM | Sat, 23 July 2016

A beautiful view you have captured here with super clarity. It is very impressive with all these big buildings, funny how we hang on to the old names for everything. 😀

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Wolfenshire

5:09PM | Sat, 23 July 2016

Beautiful capture of the city.

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photosynthesis

10:04PM | Sat, 23 July 2016

This has an unusual painterly flatness to it - it reminds me of the architectural art of Charles Sheeler. And that beautiful pastel blue sky with the puffy clouds (I think of these kinds of skies as "Renaissance skys") reinforces that flatness even more. Don't know if you created this effect intentionally, Tara, or whether you were following your creative gut instincts, but I like it a lot...

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