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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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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
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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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
Matthews Beach in Seattle in the 1930s
Matthews Beach Park in northeast Seattle is on the shore of Lake Washington, off of Sand Point Way NE at NE 93rd Street. At twenty-two acres, it is Seattle’s largest freshwater bathing beach, and the beach is only one aspect … Continue reading
Posted in Meadowbrook neighborhood, parks
Tagged Neighborhood History, Northeast Seattle in the 1930s, Seattle, WPLongform
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The Fischer Farm in Meadowbrook
It is hard for us to imagine the leap of faith made by people who immigrated to America a century ago. In the 1800s, without the aids of television or radio, immigrants could not get a very clear idea of … Continue reading
Oriental Gardens in Meadowbrook
A massive earthquake struck the city of San Francisco in the early morning hours of April 18, 1906. But worse than the damage caused by the earthquake itself were the fires which raged through the city for three days afterward. … Continue reading
Wedgwood in Seattle History 