Seattle Now & Then: Seward Street, Juneau, Alaska February 28, 2016

Seattle Now & Then

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THEN: Photographer Frank LaRoche arrived in Seattle a few weeks after its Great Fire of 1889. Through the 1890s he made scores of round-trips to the Klondike, including this visit to the Juneau intersection of Seward Avenue and Front Street. (Museum of History and Industry)

NOW: Through the nearly 120 years that separate this week’s now and then, the Mount Juneau horizon has kept its same recognizable profile. Four-thousand feet up and about seven miles north-northeast rests the Juneau Icefield. It feeds about thirty glaciers, including the Mendenhall, which comes to within a dozen miles of this Juneau intersection. By Seattle analogy, that is roughly the distance between West Point at Discovery Park to Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Bay.

Juneau with its namesake mountain above it. By LaRoche (Courtesy of Michael Maslan)

Seward Street is in there somewhere.

Through our now thirty-four years of “weekly repeating,” the farthest…

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