This view of Pike Street was taken facing northeast from Second Avenue. Several of the buildings in this image are identifiable. The seven-story building at the northeast corner of Third Avenue and Pike Street (bottom left of frame) is the Harper Building, which was built in 1890 and demolished in 1984. Further east on Pike Street, at the northeast corner of Pike Street and Fifth Avenue is the Coliseum Theatre, built in 1916 and still in use as of 2018, although as retail space and not as a theater. On the south side of Pike Street the white 10-story building is the Joshua Green Building, built in 1913 and as of 2017 still standing at the southwest corner of Pike Street and Fourth Avenue.
Signs in image: Hotel Plaza; Painless Austin Dentists; Light and Electric Co.; Lunch; Pacific Meat Co. Market; Rippe's; Shoes &3.50, The Best on the Coast; Lou Singerman, Bradford Clothes; Gunst; Bank; Hotel Abbott, Transient; Union Dentists, Guaranteed Gold Crowns $5 No Pain, Full Sets of Teeth Guaranteed $5 to $8 Extracting Free; Drug; Crescent; Coliseum Theatre; Joshua Green Building; Dr. McCord, Painless Dentist. Webster & Stevens number: 55284
Caption information source: http://pcad.lib.washington.edu/building/6223
Physical Description: 1 negative : glass, b&w ; 8 x 10 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
