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See this item's eligibility during checkout.Keyword Search: Celtic Thunder | Home » Seattle Then and Now (Then & Now) | | | | | | | Description: | | Celebrating America's favorite cityscapes, this series combines historic interest and contemporary beauty. Then And Now features fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially commissioned, full-color images of the same scene today. A visual lesson in the historic changes of our greatest urban landscapes. | | | Features: | |
• ISBN13: 9781571452443
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| James Maddison Collins | | Hardcover:
| 144 pages | | Publisher:
| Thunder Bay Press | | Publication Date:
| May 07, 2002 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 1571452443 | | Package Length:
| 11.16 inches | | Package Width:
| 9.82 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.67 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 9 reviews |
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 What Seattle Looked Like Before YOU Moved HereOct 27, 2009
The historical photographs in this book are outstanding, and it provides some outstanding background for major points of interest in Seattle. It should almost be retitled to "Seattle Then and Then" however because the "Now" pages refer to a Seattle almost ten years ago, before certain changes to the city and plans for the future evolved. For example the book refers to the upcoming monorail system, and suggests that the bus tunnel is a "novelty" and won't be part of a future transit system (the monorail project stalled and the bus tunnel is the downtown hub for the city's new light rail which replaced the proposed monorail). It shows King Street Station before the restoration to the clock tower and the Rainier brewery before Tullys gave it the horrible paint job. Some of the "Now" photographs can be somewhat uninteresting, such as a photo of an intersection from street level instead of the wider view of the area afforded by the "Then" shot having been taken from several stories up. My main disappointment is not enough shots of pre-condo Ballard. All in all a great concept for a book, and it shows the varied history of an extremely interesting American city coming to age in the not-so-old West. An outstanding coffee table book!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
OK book, but don't pay full priceJun 04, 2007
Like many of the other reviewers, I found it frustrating that the descriptions lacked depth and that the "now" photos were taken from different angles entirely.
Interesting coffee table book to flip through casually.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Nice idea, poor executionAug 25, 2006
This book is a nice idea, but does a pretty bad job of execution. I don't know if it's just this one in the series or the whole of them, but I wouldn't buy them. In fact I'm glad I picked it up from the library to see if it was worth getting. There problems range from outright errors, a picture of 1st avenue labeled as 3rd which is almost exactly the same as one used of first avenue. Did the book even have an editor? Other issues are less erroneous, but overall more objectionable, including 90% of the modern photos being of poor quality, bad angles not matching the originals, or just uninteresting subjects. The only good point so far as I'm concerned are the old photos themselves, which is what I'm really looking for and have to imagine exists out there somewhere.
1 of 4 found the following review helpful:
A book about a town that literally recreated itself Feb 20, 2005
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 !
11 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Interesting, But . . .Feb 04, 2004
Casually thumbing through this book at a book store one glaring error exploded off page 87. Although it is captioned as being a photo of Third Avenue, it is obviously a photo of First Avenue (note the Alexis Hotel).Look through this book while in your dentist's waiting room, but don't use it as a resource for your junior high school history project. Instead, you should use "Seattle Now and Then" by Paul Dorpat, which is a compilation of articles written and published over many years by the Seattle Times (AISN 0961435704).
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