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Old Posted Jan 4, 2011, 5:28 AM
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Originally Posted by bryson662001 View Post
If you ever get the chance watch the film "The slender thread" w/Ann Bancroft and Sidney Poitier on TCM or elsewhere. It opens with amazing shots over Seattle cira 1965 from the air and the downtown is completely flat except for the space needle and the Smith tower. It's also a great film with a beautiful score.
I haven't seen it.

The "flat" point isn't true. Here's a 1945 photo from a newspaper archive: 1945: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/galle...om%20the%20air

We have had a "cueball" neighborhood near Downtown where a hill was removed a century ago (Denny Hill became the Denny Regrade), then development was slow and generally lowrise until the 80s, and even now part of it has never developed much.
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