PhDs History & Archaeology. Writer. Publisher BlueParrotBooks.com. Seattle Beach Bum with a Camera. If you like my photos buy my books. Find all my stuff on my Substack blog: https://michaelostrogorsky.substack.com/
Michael Ostrogorsky Ph.D. 📸
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Duwamish Tribal Canoe making a training run to Alki Beach yesterday:
Seattle's twin-masted 85 foot schooner Bay Lady sailing past West Point Lighthouse:
Lovely ephemeral orca art on Alki Beach:
Seattle's historic 1914 Smith Tower, tallest building on the West Coast until construction of the Space Needle in 1962. Pier 48 in foreground, constructed 1935, slowly crumbling into the sea:
Cheeky Corvid over Alki Beach: 🪶
About 2:30 p.m., June 6, 1889, a 24-year-old Swedish carpenter named John Back allowed a pot of glue being heated over a gas fire in the Victor Clairmont and Company Cabinet Shop located on today’s site of the Old Federal Building to boil over, igniting wood chips and turpentine covering the floor:
Dramatic backdrop to beach volleyball this Sunday afternoon on Alki Beach:
St. Charles Hotel, Pioneer Square. One of the first buildings constructed following the Great Seattle Fire of 1889 as the American Hotel. Built on pilings on what was originally tidelands. The alley to the left of the building marks Seattle's original shoreline:
(Fishin' On) The Dock of the Bay. With apologies to Otis Redding! Seacrest Dock West Seattle:
Majesty of Flight. Great Blue Heron soaring over Alki Beach: 🪶
