A quick note, on February 28, 2010, The Pioneer Square Antique Mall will close its doors.  BIG SALES, markdowns going on until then.  I will look for a suitable venue to show the collection and sale items before then.  This business is changing, lean economy, ebay, craigslist all add opportunities and challenges.
Stay Tuned, and I will also

I am holding a post card of Pioneer Square and First Avenue.  The pergola is there, men in suits, women in long dresses.  Hats were the style.  There's earlty automobiles (not many).  First avenue is cobblestones and horse drawn carriages navigate this Alaska Yukon Boom town, elevated Puget Sound's Elliott Bay after the great fire leveled Seattle in 1889, coincidentially  Washington became a state that same year.  The printing and practice of postcard correspondence became utilized only a year earlier.  In one year, the city would showcase, market, invite and host the world in Seattle's (first world's fair) Alaska Yukon Pacific Exhibition.

"The Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition, Washington's first world's fair, took place from June 1 through October 16, 1909, on the Universityu of Washington Campus in Seattle.  It exposed 3.7 million visitors to thousands of entertaining and educational exhibits, opened  their eyes to the  region's natural wonders, and focused a bright light on tghe young state of Washington and its largest city.  Once concluded the fair was relegated to happy memory, but left a compelling legacy still visible today"
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, A Timeline History, May 2009, University of Washington Press, Alan J Stein, Paula Becker & The Historylink Staff  This is a great history book in coffee table picture loaded format.  Only $29.95  Amazing in my 58 years living here to imagine how far, how much the city, region, and world has changed

I am holding a post card of Pioneer Square and First Avenue.  The pergola is there, men in suits, women in long dresses.  Hats were the style.  There's earlty automobiles (not many).  First avenue is cobblestones and horse drawn carriages navigate this Alaska Yukon Boom town, elevated Puget Sound's Elliott Bay after the great fire leveled Seattle in 1889, coincidentially  Washington became a state that same year.  The printing and practice of postcard correspondence became utilized only a year earlier.  In one year, the city would showcase, market, invite and host the world in Seattle's (first world's fair) Alaska Yukon Pacific Exhibition.

"The Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition, Washington's first world's fair, took place from June 1 through October 16, 1909, on the Universityu of Washington Campus in Seattle.  It exposed 3.7 million visitors to thousands of entertaining and educational exhibits, opened  their eyes to the  region's natural wonders, and focused a bright light on tghe young state of Washington and its largest city.  Once concluded the fair was relegated to happy memory, but left a compelling legacy still visible today"
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, A Timeline History, May 2009, University of Washington Press, Alan J Stein, Paula Becker & The Historylink Staff  This is a great history book in coffee table picture loaded format.  Only $29.95  Amazing in my 58 years living here to imagine how far, how much the city, region, and world has changed

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