Interstate 5 (I-5) is the main Interstate Highway on the West Coast of the United States, and Seattle's and widest freeway. The section of I-5 connecting Kent to Seattle to Everett was built between 1960-1966, including the section shown in this aerial photograph taken on February 25, 1964. The direction of the photograph is looking north east, in the foreground Lakeveiw Boulveard East crosses over I-5 to join with Belmont Avenue East on Capitol Hill. At the top of the frame Saint Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral is prominant on the hillisde to the east of I-5. Saint Mark’s was founded in downtown Seattle in 1889; the building seen here opened April 25, 1931.

John Fraser Vallentyne (1928-2002) was an aerial photographer for The Boeing Co. and a staff photographer for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in the 1950s-1960s.

Caption information source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Seattle_Freeways
Caption information source: "John F. Vallentyne, photographer, dies at 74," by D. Parvaz, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 1, 2002