Seattle Then and Now (Then & Now) | 
 enlarge | Author: Jim Collins
Publisher: Thunder Bay Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 248461
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.4
Dimensions (in): 11.2 x 9.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 1571452443
Dewey Decimal Number: 979.772
EAN: 9781571452443
ASIN: 1571452443
Publication Date: May 7, 2002
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Product Description
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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OK book, but don't pay full price June 4, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Like many of the other reviewers, I found it frustrating that the descriptions lacked depth and that the "now" photos were taken from different angles entirely.
Interesting coffee table book to flip through casually.
 Nice idea, poor execution August 25, 2006
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
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.
 A book about a town that literally recreated itself February 20, 2005
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a really interesting coffee table book with great historical photographs. This book illustrates how ambitious the city & urban planners were remaking the difficult hilly terrain often interrupted with water into what is today the Seattle & the "Eastside." I disagree with the other negative reviews of this book who claim to speak from a native Seattle-ite point of view. Lets face it, the only native Seattle-ites are Norwegians & native americans. The dark nostalgic genre of illustration aptly captures Seattle's "dark" historic cultural spirit comprising "skid-road," logging, & prostitution. Today Seattle enjoys that same spirit as manifested in its rich modern culture of "depression", "non-traditional life styles", grunge and the birth place of more serial killers per capita than anywhere else. Viva Seattle !
 Interesting, But . . . February 4, 2004
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
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).
The author did not do his homework December 29, 2001
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
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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