Two Futurologists in 1893

The following article was found in the Feb. 6, 1893 issue of the Spokane Daily Chronicle. Two noted writers of the day, T. DeWitt Talmage and Ella Wheeler Wilcox, were invited to try their hand at a bit of futurology and predict what life will be like a century later.

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Tumwater, Washington

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"University of Washington and Evergreen Point Floating bridge. In this the southern part of the campus the dominating feature is the Health Sciences which includes Schools of Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Pharmacy."

1970s.

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Olympia, Washington

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"University of Washington. This aerial view shows Lake Washington and the Evergreen Point Floating bridge in the background."

1970s.

That Gothic structure near the center of the image and above the Red Square is Suzzallo Library, which is not only the graduate library but was also home to the Graduate School of Library and Information Science. To give you an idea of how captivating it was to be a student in this institution, the nearly 200 pages of my monster comic Assorted Thoughts on Insanity was almost entirely composed while enduring lectures in this delightful program.

After attending undergrad at the wild and experimental Evergreen State College in the 1970s, going to the UW was like stepping back into high school. But I did enjoy being on a large academic campus in a major city.

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Mud Bay

Thurston County, Washington

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"The aerial view of the University of Washington Campus shows the School of Medicine and the University Hospital on Portage Bay, and the main campus complex behind."

1970s.

The campus and neighborhood just above that patch of green top center was my world 1980-1982. Just to the left is University Avenue, "The Ave." One day I ran into Lynda Barry on The Ave. and she pointed me to a print shop where you could reduce and enlarge images by yourself on a photocopier. At the time that was a major technological change for us independent pressers.

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The Fabs hard at work doing what they do best

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"Seattle, Washington. University of Washington Medical and Hospital Center is located on Portage Bay. The Health Sciences complex is one of the nation's most modern medical teaching and research centers. Open-heart surgery and the artificial kidney are two of many medical miracles developed by researchers at the center. U. of W. 'Husky' Stadium is on the extreme right."

1970s. Any postcard that uses the words "artificial kidney" is an instant collector's item!

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Hettie and Buster

13 year-old siblings

Favorite Movie Quotes: Goodfellas

"Anything I wanted was a phone call away. Free cars. The keys to a dozen hideout flats all over the city. I'd bet twenty, thirty grand over a weekend and then I'd either blow the winnings in a week or go to the sharks to pay back the bookies. Didn't matter. It didn't mean anything. When I was broke, I would go out and rob some more. We ran everything. We paid off cops. We paid off lawyers. We paid off judges. Everybody had their hands out. Everything was for the taking. And now it's all over. And that's the hardest part. Today everything is different. There's no action, have to wait around like everyone else. Can't even get decent food. Right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I'm an average nobody. Get to live the rest of my life like a schnook."

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Tumwater, Washington

Pearl Bartruff, Washington State Female Cartoonist in the 1920s Had to Fight

The following article is from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 3, 1977, p. C3. I love the fact it quotes the great Ray Collins.

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Monkey Parts Display

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"Evergreen Point Bridge, spanning Lake Washington, is the longest floating span in the world. It has an over-all length of 5.93 miles and a floating section of 7,578 ft. This route leads to the Cascade Mountains seen in the background."

1970s. Today it is called "Governor Albert D. Rosellini Floating Bridge-- Evergreen Point," and at age 50 is getting too old to maintain.

I like the way to top postcard edge contour sort of matches the peaks of the Cascades.

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Postcard - Seattle, Washington

 

"Portage Bay with the University of Washington Medical School and other campus buildings in the distance and the moorings of the Seattle Yacht Club in the Bay. The western end of the Evergreen Floating bridge runs in the foreground."

1970s.

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Hettie the helicopter detector, always the first to pick up on the fact one is near

Favorite Movie Quotes: Gone With the Wind

"You mustn't say such things. You'll hate me for hearing them."

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The Fab Four enduring great hardship

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"Seattle, Washington. University of Washington Stadium at left center with a seating capacity of 58,000 overlooks Lake Washington and is bordered by Union Bay in the center with Portage Bay in the foreground tied together by Lake Washington Ship Canal."

1970s.

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Charlie and Dreamer

Morty Comix # 2592

Morty Comix # 2592 was placed inside an old issue of Newsweek in a clinic waiting room in Tumwater, Washington.

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Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"Opening Day Regatta, Seattle. The annual parade of boats through the east section of the Lake Washington ship canal marks the official opening of the boating season."

1970s.

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Morty Comix # 2591

Morty Comix # 2591 was tacked up on the public bulletin board of the McCleary Post Office.

It has been awhile since I have displayed anything on this medium. Apparently, some individual in town takes down anything I post and within 24 hours tears it up into little pieces, and throws it in one of the trash cans. So I have pissed off someone around here. Imagine that. The long line forms at the Right.


This comic was gone within 24 hours, but I didn't inspect the trash to see if it was torn up.

The McCleary Post Office remains home to four earlier Morty Comix, and one of them has been there for over a year! 

In the last photo, Nadine awaits outside.

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James Abbott mural detail

McCleary, Washington

Postcard - Seattle, Washington

"George Washington Memorial Bridge, Seattle, Washington"

1930s. Today this is known as the Aurora Bridge or the Suicide Bridge.

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James Abbott mural detail

McCleary, Washington

There is something deliciously and I'm sure unintentionally disturbing about the way he painted facial expressions in nearly all of the works he created around Grays Harbor County, although his landscape work was really good. It just adds to the surreal feeling many visitors have when visiting this zone of Washington State, Bezango WA 985.