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The Wedgwood Safeway
The intersection of 35th Ave NE and NE 75th Street had no buildings at any of the four corners until after 1946. The only building near to the corner of 75th & 35th was Ida’s Inn at 7500 35th Ave … Continue reading
Posted in businesses, grocery stores, Neighborhood features
Tagged land use and zoning, NE 75th Street, Neighborhood History, Seattle
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Avian Friday: How to Attract Birds
Originally posted on Short & Tweet Bird Reports:
This week’s photo, taken March 30, 2013 in Magnuson Park in Seattle, WA, features my first SAVANNAH SPARROW of the year. When I’m out walking the trails and looking for birds, my…
Street-grade: ups and downs in Wedgwood
Wedgwood’s main commercial corridor is along 35th Ave NE which was first declared an arterial in 1934. Some improvements were made at that time, including some widening and some road-grading to level out the surface and make it more passable … Continue reading
Posted in 7321 35th Ave NE, 7528 35th Ave NE, Big Green House, Houses, streets
Tagged 35th Ave NE, NE 75th Street, Neighborhood History, Seattle
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The House in the Road
The years 1945 to 1955, from the end of World War Two until the Wedgwood neighborhood came completely into the city limits of Seattle, were years of rapid change. The population of Seattle had swelled with war workers in the … Continue reading
Avian Friday: Watchable Wildlife
It’s Spring, and the Great Blue Herons are in their communal nesting sites called rookeries, large nests often built out over waterways. Through the Watchable Wildlife resources, you can observe birds in real time on the WildWatchCams. HeronWatch is just … Continue reading
Posted in Nature and wildlife
Tagged Washington State Dept of Wildlife, WildWatchCams
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Hamburgers in Wedgwood
Wedgwood of the 1950s was a still-developing neighborhood with a lot of house construction in progress. Although Albert Balch’s original group of Wedgwood houses was finished (from NE 80th to 85th Streets on the west side of 35th Ave NE) … Continue reading
Names in the Neighborhood: from Pontiac to Wedgwood
In 1887 the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern Railroad was up and running, a line now followed by the Burke-Gilman Trail. The railroad paralleled streetcar lines from downtown Seattle as far as Fremont which was a major transportation hub for … Continue reading
Posted in Maple Creek ravine, name of the neighborhood, Plat names
Tagged Neighborhood History, Seattle, SLS&E Railroad
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Names in the Neighborhood: from Decatur to Thornton Creek
Author’s note: This article is about the name of a school in the Wedgwood neighborhood. If you are looking for an outline of the history of the Thornton Creek watershed and The Confluence at Meadowbrook, go here. The US Navy … Continue reading
The Thornton Creek Confluence at Meadowbrook Pond
The Thornton Creek Watershed is a system of big and small streams which drain the region of northeast Seattle, with the final outflow into Lake Washington at Matthews Beach, at about NE 93rd Street. The watershed has two main branches, … Continue reading
John Thornton of Early Washington Territory
In the Meadowbrook neighborhood of northeast Seattle, the North and South Forks of the Thornton Creek system come to a convergence point on 35th Ave NE at NE 107th Street. Since the 1990s intensive work has gone into this site, … Continue reading
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