Seattle Now & Then: The Historic Hundred is a contemplation of authors, Paul Dorpat and Jean Sherrard's work. The book features 100 pictures of Seattle when it first started, to Seattle now. Paul Dorpat has been writing the Now & Then column for the Seattle Times for 37 years. In each column, he takes a picture of Seattle then and compares it with a picture of Seattle now. Everything from streets, water, buildings, bridges and occasions.
For New Day both authors chose their top three stories to tell:
1. This story starts with the Great Seattle Fire of 1889. It ends with the loss of a beautiful building in Pioneer Square, that saved the Pike Place Market from destruction.
2. The opening of the Aurora Bridge using a telegraph key made of solid Yukon gold. This key was also used by John Kennedy to inaugurate the Seattle World’s Fair.
3. The Kalakala, the now-scrapped art-deco ferry with the marine equivalent of a noisy two-stroke engine. This ferry was escorted through the Ballard locks, with a modern repeat featuring the USS Turner Joy. This was part of the action that began U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.
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