Wednesday, July 25, 2012

Amusements atop Seattle's Phinney Ridge, ca. 1926

NOW: Lora Hansen moved in 1936 with her parents to a home across the street from where the Ferris wheel had stood. She recalls that a playground merry-go-round was set on the concrete slab that once supported the amusement center, until St. John United Lutheran Church built its new sanctuary there in 1954-55.