Celebrating America's favorite cityscapes, this series combines historic interest and contemporary beauty. Then And Now features fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially commissioned, full-color images of the same scene today. A visual lesson in the historic changes of our greatest urban landscapes.
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21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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The author did not do his homework,
By Dr. Nelson Swartz (Camano Island, WA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Seattle Then and Now (Then & Now) (Hardcover)
This book could not have been written by a Seattle native - it simply contains too many errors and ommissions. Several items are mislabeled and the dialog for each picture is vapid.Additionally, it would not have been that difficult to match the "now" to the "then" photos. Many of the "now" pictures were taken at different angles and with the wrong lens. A good concept but poorly executed.
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This review is from: Seattle Then and Now (Then & Now) (Hardcover)
Casually thumbing through this book at a book store one glaring error exploded off page 87. Although it is captioned as being a photo of Third Avenue, it is obviously a photo of First Avenue (note the Alexis Hotel).Look through this book while in your dentist's waiting room, but don't use it as a resource for your junior high school history project. Instead, you should use "Seattle Now and Then" by Paul Dorpat, which is a compilation of articles written and published over many years by the Seattle Times (AISN 0961435704).
9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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Nice idea, poor execution,
By Ross Mcfarland "R.M." (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Seattle Then and Now (Then & Now) (Hardcover)
This book is a nice idea, but does a pretty bad job of execution. I don't know if it's just this one in the series or the whole of them, but I wouldn't buy them. In fact I'm glad I picked it up from the library to see if it was worth getting. There problems range from outright errors, a picture of 1st avenue labeled as 3rd which is almost exactly the same as one used of first avenue. Did the book even have an editor? Other issues are less erroneous, but overall more objectionable, including 90% of the modern photos being of poor quality, bad angles not matching the originals, or just uninteresting subjects. The only good point so far as I'm concerned are the old photos themselves, which is what I'm really looking for and have to imagine exists out there somewhere.
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Webster & Stevens made copies of the work of a number of earlier Seattle photographers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Smith Tower, Pioneer Square, First Avenue, Lake Washington, Second Avenue, Third Avenue, Fourth Avenue, Lake Union, Pike Place, Denny Hill, Capitol Hill, First Hill, Colman Dock, Pike Street, Puget Sound, County-City Building, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Interstate Five, James Street, Volunteer Park, Queen Anne Hill, Space Needle, Union Station, Yesler Way, Elliott Bay New!
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Webster & Stevens made copies of the work of a number of earlier Seattle photographers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
ship canal, photo shows Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Smith Tower, Pioneer Square, First Avenue, Lake Washington, Second Avenue, Third Avenue, Fourth Avenue, Lake Union, Pike Place, Denny Hill, Capitol Hill, First Hill, Colman Dock, Pike Street, Puget Sound, County-City Building, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Interstate Five, James Street, Volunteer Park, Queen Anne Hill, Space Needle, Union Station, Yesler Way, Elliott Bay New!
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