What Famous Looks Like from the Back by auntietk
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Seattle, Washington
July, 2016
There's a lot to see from Seattle's Great Wheel!
The buildings in this photograph are mostly those that comprise Seattle's famous Public Market.
Do you see the enclosed ramp on the left-hand building in the center of the picture? That ramp, along with the buildings to either side of it, house the Pike Street Market. Market vendors sell fresh fish, vegetables and flowers direct from the grower (or fisherman, as the case may be), and boasts Seattle's oldest head shop. (If you don't know what that is, never mind.) Crafts, books, specialty items. Think handmade bamboo flutes, Polish pottery, anarchist book shops, leather goods, handmade jewelry.
Think Starbucks coffee. The Market is where Starbucks' original store is located.
The Public Market buildings are reported to be haunted. I know ... I know ... everything is. But Bill and I were down there one day, and a nice woman came by and asked if we would like her to take our picture with Bill's camera. We said sure! She seemed to know what she was doing, having us tip our heads so there was no glare on our glasses, and whatnot. When she had taken the picture, she showed it to us in the camera's screen, handed Bill the camera back, and walked off. We never saw her again, and we never saw the photograph again! Somehow it just wasn't there. Those of you with digital cameras know it's a specific process to delete an image, and neither of us deleted it. So. Haunted? I don't know. Strange and un-explainable? Absolutely!
If you want to see standard, iconic photographs of the Market, just Google "Pike Place Market," and you'll see a million shots of this famous landmark.
The building in the foreground that has a vaguely Art Deco look, all peachy-pink and dull gray, is the Hillclimb Court Condominium Building, built in 1983. You'll see that the Alaska Way Viaduct runs right in front of the building. The viaduct is slated to come down in the next couple years or so, and that building will have uninterrupted views of Puget Sound and more mountains than you can shake a stick at. In case you wonder, you could purchase a condo in that building if you have well more than a million dollars to spend on housing.
Seattle is built on some pretty steep hills.
Buildings may not contain as many stories as you might think.
Batteries not included.
Your mileage may vary.
Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
Comments (11)
RodS
Head shop..... Now there's a term I've not heard in a while.....
OK, now that's a pretty weird story - I can hear the theme to Twilight Zone..... That's not the first time I've heard of this happening. Very strange, but perhaps you and Bill had a brief encounter with the "other side.."
I love this colorful and detailed photo in any event. I'm glad this shot didn't wind up in another dimension, Tara!
jocko500
lot of history is here
sossy
impressive capture of special buildings! your explanation gives the salt to the bread 😀
bugsnouveau Online Now!
Very enjoyable tales to go with this shot, thanks for sharing
helanker
This is a beautiful shot of a beautiful Seattle. I like the colorful geometric shapes and all the details in this shot. What a Strange happening. Are you sure you both didnt dream it? ;-D What a coincident that would be lol. No, but it IS a disappointment, the photo disappeared.
durleybeachbum
This is such a very exciting and interesting photo! The colours are wonderful and your detailed description makes it like an architectural Where's Wally! Polish Pottery, eh?! I just love that stuff. We have many Poles here and they hate it, and go for pretty 'English Country Garden' type tea sets !
It's hard to believe anyone would buy an apartment of that price range that has a motorway running past the windows. All noise and lung disease!
T.Rex
Interesting photo and great description. Not the Seattle I visited in 1978 when seeking work at Univ. of Washington. So, the viaduct is coming down soon - earth quake? Or machines? I recall the city was built on steep hills and the Continental Trailways bus drove down a main street that was not straight due to the hilly terrain. As for your photo experience - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross describes in her autobiography having fairies show up in a photo of flowers, and a huge transparent Indian show up in the next photo of her and friends. This was taken near an Indian burial site. This was with a film camera in the 1960s, no electronics. Her husband was mad as heck on seeing the photos, thinking she had ruined the camera. Her autobiography is well worth reading. Keep up the good work! :-)
Wolfenshire
An interesting perspective.
wysiwig
They sell heads in Seattle? What savages!
A fascinating look at one of Seattle's backsides. I'll wager that once that Why a Duck “The Cocoanuts” (1929) (gratuitous Marx Brothers reference) comes down those condos will go for much more than one mil.
And by the way, my mileage always varies.
anahata.c
this was so good, you got Andrea to like an urban architectural conglomerate photo. That's a big feat. It's a terrifically articulated shot---what could be a congested urban messy shot is a collection of very clear shapes and hues, and defined planes, etc. You did a terrific job with the hues and variations, and the planes, etc. A massive abstract. And the variety really sings; esp with the more modern glass-steel structures as a "backdrop". I appreciate your travelogue too; and I know what "haunted" means for waterfront places like these: I worked in some of the water/riverfront warehouses in Chicago, years ago, and you swore medieval ghosts were roaming about. As for the lady who asked to take your picture? It gives me ideas for a story. Where the photo showed up in my camera...I'll see if I can do something. I make no promises...A wonderful shot, with terrific clarity and massing, all so clear in full zoom. You rescued real articulation from an urban jungle scene...I love this shot.
junge1
Superb capture Tara and a lot of interesting information. A head shop, huh? I wonder if it was there in 1963-66. If it was there, I wouldn't have gone there anyway. But we did go down to the harbor on weekends a few times in 1965 and did day labor, off-loading freighters, to supplement our meager income Uncle Sam paid us!