Broadway and John, 1934 by Seattle Municipal Archives from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

50th and Phinney, 1935 by Seattle Municipal Archives from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

Harlan Jackson with baseball, 1925 by Seattle Municipal Archives from the Seattlest Flickr pool. more ›

• If you haven't figured out by our continuous posting of Seattle Municipal Archive Photos and links to Vintage Seattle, we have an affinity for all things, well, vintage Seattle, as it were. So we were thrilled to see that the Central District News has started a feature called "CD Rewind," which takes a look into the CD's past. The first edition shows what 23rd and Madison looked like in 1957.
• We also really like alliteration...but Beacon Hill Blog may have taken it a little too far with this one.
• We had no idea there was such a job as seal sitter, but apparently there is and seal sitters are attentively watching West Seattle beaches.

Have you heard about WISAARD? It's a really cool toy research tool from the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP) that helps you locate historic sites statewide, searchable by county, city, and registered site name or status. It might not be stylized or streamlined, but WISAARD is just plain neat--and useful, if you're looking for details but don't know precisely which details you're looking for yet. Amateur local history nerds, read on: more ›