A 1977 photo from Old Kenmore<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on March 27, 2023<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n I honestly don’t know whether the most surprising part of this 1977 photograph is that it was used on a postcard – which it was – or that the old Barber Shop is now a hair salon. Yes, the branding has changed a little, but it’s still hair. But if you’re wondering – no, Dorothy isn’t running it.<\/p>\n
![\"1977](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/kenmore-1977.jpg\")
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
\n back in 1915<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on March 29, 2016<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n From approximately 1915, a postcard, a hand-coloured black-and-white photograph showing Bothell Way heading west into Kenmore – and a misspelled Sammamish River. It’s very unusual to see a photo of any kind looking west from that far east! The rail line visible in the postcard is now Burke-Gilman Trail.<\/p>\n
Below that, enjoy the same view – as best I could manage it – using Apple Maps.<\/p>\n
![\"antique-version\"](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/antique-version.jpg\")
<\/p>\n
![\"modern-version\"](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/modern-version.jpg\")
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\n back to 1971<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on November 16, 2015<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n A little while ago, I bought a Japanese-made Korean doll which had been packaged away in 1971 – or so it appears, given that the copy of The Seattle Times<\/i> used to pad it were from 1971 – and hey, look – an Uplake house for sale! <\/p>\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/uplake-1971-640.jpg\")
<\/center><\/p>\nAlso another house elsewhere in Kenmore – this one doesn’t have an address.<\/p>\n
![](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/kenmore-1971-640.jpg\")
<\/center><\/p>\nBoth from the Sunday, July 18th, 1971 issue of The Seattle Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n here comes the train<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on April 26, 2013<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n ![](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/train-1930-kenmore-near55th-640.jpg\")
Train Towards Kenmore, 1930<\/i>
A train from Seattle enters Kenmore, near 55th Avenue NE, in 1930.
(photo courtesy Kenmore Historical Society Newsletter)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Busy Winter Day, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/0002770s.jpeg\" "\\"Busy")
<\/a>Busy Winter Day, 1924<\/p><\/div>
\n
Photo Asahel Curtis, courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum<\/center>
\nThis photo shows business is brisk at L.F. Stetson Sr.’s general store in Lake Forest Park on a winter day in 1924. The store, located at the intersection of Victory Boulevard (Old Brick Road\/Bothell Way\/SR-522) and what will become Ballinger Way, was just west of what is now Kenmore city limits, and serviced customers in Lake Forest Park and Kenmore, on their way to Seattle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Kenmore's Log Boom, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/00026yrk1.jpeg\" "\\"Kenmore's")
<\/a>Kenmore's Log Boom, 1924<\/p><\/div>
\n
Photo Asahel Curtis, courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum<\/center>
\nThis photograph shows the Kenmore Log Boom in 1928, as seen from Victory Boulevard (the Old Brick Road, now Bothell Way\/SR-522). This is now part of Log Boom Park. Tracks of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway, now Burke-Gilman Trail, can be seen in the foreground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Victory Boulevard (Old Brick Road), towards Uplake, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/00024kdx.jpeg\" "\\"Victory")
<\/a>Victory Boulevard (Old Brick Road), northeast towards Uplake, 1924<\/p><\/div>
\n
Photo Asahel Curtis, courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum<\/center>
\nBy this time, the Brick Road (now Bothell Way\/SR-522) had been renamed Victory Boulevard after the Great War (now World War I). The curve in the road visible in the distance is in what is now Kenmore western city limits; Kenmore’s downtown, already present, is off camera to the right; if you look carefully, you can spot the gap in the trees marking Cat’s Whiskers Road (61st Avenue NE). Uplake would be laid out 25 years later, on the hill visible in photograph centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ballanger, Burke, and Goat Trail, 1915<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/00023txf.jpeg\" "\\"Ballanger,")
<\/a>Ballanger, Burke, and Goat Trail, 1915<\/p><\/div>
\nThis 1915 photo of Lake Forest Park’s eastern houses shows the pre-lowering Lake Washington, along with the railroad which is now Burke-Gilman Trail, and Goat Trail Road heading off towards what is now Uplake, in Kenmore. Photo courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
\n The Dixie Inn of Kenmore, in 1927<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/000203pa.jpeg\" "\\"The")
<\/a>The Dixie Inn of Kenmore, in 1927<\/p><\/div>
\n
Prohibition-era Kenmore was a centre for Seattle-area country dining
\n(meaning drinking) and dancing (also meaning drinking). The Dixie Inn was one
\nof many such establishments.<\/p>\n(Image courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum Barbara L. Drake Bender Collection.)<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
\n Red Brick Road at Ballanger Way, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/0001sztg.jpeg\" "\\"Red")
<\/a>Red Brick Road at Ballanger Way, looking west into Kenmore from Lake Forest Park<\/p><\/div>
\n
Red Brick Road at Ballanger Way, looking west into Kenmore from Lake Forest Park
\nKenmore’s downtown hill and eastern hill can be seen in the
\nbackground, as well as the northern tip of Lake Washington
\n(Photo Asashel Curtis, 1924, of the Stetson store in Lake Forest Park.
\nImage courtesy the Shoreline Historical Museum.)<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ole Hanson on Gehr Erickson Road (Bothell Way), 1910<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/0001qy71.jpeg\" "\\"Ole")
<\/a>Ole Hanson on Gehr Erickson Road (now Bothell Way) in 1910<\/p><\/div>
\n
Ole Hanson on Gehr Erickson Road (now Bothell Way) in 1910
\nphoto Asahel Curtis, North Seattle Improvement Company Promotional Booklet, 1912<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Original Kenmore schoolhouse, 1936<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/0001ghsq.jpeg\" "\\"Original")
<\/a>Original Kenmore schoolhouse, in dilapidated condition (1936) <\/p><\/div>
\n
The original Kenmore schoolhouse had not been in
\nuse for many years by the time this photo was taken;
\nit was later put back into good order.<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Goat Trail Road, 1910<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/0001fwqs.jpeg\" "\\"Goat")
<\/a>Goat Trail Road, 1910<\/p><\/div>\n
Goat Trail Road (NE 178th\/NE 182nd) as seen in 1910
\nfrom the western boundry of what is now Uplake.
\nPhoto Asashel Curtis, 1910, for the North Seattle Improvement Company.
\nImage courtesy the Shoreline Historical Museum.<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n McMaster Shingle Mill worker's shack, circa 1914<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n ![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/00017sk7.jpeg\" "\\"McMaster")
<\/a>McMaster Shingle Mill worker's shack, circa 1914 (From the collection of Priscilla Droge) <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
\n Uplake Terrace, from the air, December 1953<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n ![\"Uplake](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/00014bp4.jpeg\" "\\"Uplake")
<\/a>Uplake Terrace, from the air, December 1953<\/p><\/div>\n
Large (1280-pixel) version<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Huge (2900-pixel) version<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Current aerial view<\/a><\/span>
\nFrom a stet of a photo found attached to the original plat map, possibly by Pope and Talbot Developers.<\/p>\nWe speculate that the white\u00a0areas are snow, already melted off the trees; it was a particularly snowy winter. The road along the bottom of the photo is\u00a0Bothell Way, and the road on the far right Cat’s Whiskers Road, or 61st Avenue NE.<\/p>\n
(Recovered from a damaged photo stet, photographer unknown, provided by long-time Uplake resident Jim Palm)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
\n The Red Brick Road passing Uplake, Kenmore, circa 1914-1917<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.uplakekenmore.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/0000a73q.jpeg\" "\\"The")
<\/a>The Red Brick Road passing Uplake, Kenmore, circa 1914-1917<\/p><\/div>\n
Soon, the lake will be lowered, the train line will become the Burke-Gilman Trail, and\u00a040 years later the road will become\u00a0Bothell Way, and most of the land shown on the\u00a0far side of road will become the neighborhood of Uplake, in Kenmore.<\/p>\n
<\/center>
(From the collection of Priscilla Droge)<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n
I honestly don’t know whether the most surprising part of this 1977 photograph is that it was used on a postcard – which it was – or that the old Barber Shop is now a hair salon. Yes, the branding has changed a little, but it’s still hair. But if you’re wondering – no, Dorothy isn’t running it.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
back in 1915<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on March 29, 2016<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n From approximately 1915, a postcard, a hand-coloured black-and-white photograph showing Bothell Way heading west into Kenmore – and a misspelled Sammamish River. It’s very unusual to see a photo of any kind looking west from that far east! The rail line visible in the postcard is now Burke-Gilman Trail.<\/p>\n
Below that, enjoy the same view – as best I could manage it – using Apple Maps.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
\n back to 1971<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on November 16, 2015<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n A little while ago, I bought a Japanese-made Korean doll which had been packaged away in 1971 – or so it appears, given that the copy of The Seattle Times<\/i> used to pad it were from 1971 – and hey, look – an Uplake house for sale! <\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nAlso another house elsewhere in Kenmore – this one doesn’t have an address.<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nBoth from the Sunday, July 18th, 1971 issue of The Seattle Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n here comes the train<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on April 26, 2013<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n
Train Towards Kenmore, 1930<\/i>
A train from Seattle enters Kenmore, near 55th Avenue NE, in 1930.
(photo courtesy Kenmore Historical Society Newsletter)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Busy Winter Day, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Busy Winter Day, 1924<\/p><\/div>
\n
Photo Asahel Curtis, courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum<\/center>
\nThis photo shows business is brisk at L.F. Stetson Sr.’s general store in Lake Forest Park on a winter day in 1924. The store, located at the intersection of Victory Boulevard (Old Brick Road\/Bothell Way\/SR-522) and what will become Ballinger Way, was just west of what is now Kenmore city limits, and serviced customers in Lake Forest Park and Kenmore, on their way to Seattle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Kenmore's Log Boom, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Kenmore's Log Boom, 1924<\/p><\/div>
\n
Photo Asahel Curtis, courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum<\/center>
\nThis photograph shows the Kenmore Log Boom in 1928, as seen from Victory Boulevard (the Old Brick Road, now Bothell Way\/SR-522). This is now part of Log Boom Park. Tracks of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway, now Burke-Gilman Trail, can be seen in the foreground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Victory Boulevard (Old Brick Road), towards Uplake, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Victory Boulevard (Old Brick Road), northeast towards Uplake, 1924<\/p><\/div>
\n
Photo Asahel Curtis, courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum<\/center>
\nBy this time, the Brick Road (now Bothell Way\/SR-522) had been renamed Victory Boulevard after the Great War (now World War I). The curve in the road visible in the distance is in what is now Kenmore western city limits; Kenmore’s downtown, already present, is off camera to the right; if you look carefully, you can spot the gap in the trees marking Cat’s Whiskers Road (61st Avenue NE). Uplake would be laid out 25 years later, on the hill visible in photograph centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ballanger, Burke, and Goat Trail, 1915<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Ballanger, Burke, and Goat Trail, 1915<\/p><\/div>
\nThis 1915 photo of Lake Forest Park’s eastern houses shows the pre-lowering Lake Washington, along with the railroad which is now Burke-Gilman Trail, and Goat Trail Road heading off towards what is now Uplake, in Kenmore. Photo courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
\n The Dixie Inn of Kenmore, in 1927<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>The Dixie Inn of Kenmore, in 1927<\/p><\/div>
\n
Prohibition-era Kenmore was a centre for Seattle-area country dining
\n(meaning drinking) and dancing (also meaning drinking). The Dixie Inn was one
\nof many such establishments.<\/p>\n(Image courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum Barbara L. Drake Bender Collection.)<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
\n Red Brick Road at Ballanger Way, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Red Brick Road at Ballanger Way, looking west into Kenmore from Lake Forest Park<\/p><\/div>
\n
Red Brick Road at Ballanger Way, looking west into Kenmore from Lake Forest Park
\nKenmore’s downtown hill and eastern hill can be seen in the
\nbackground, as well as the northern tip of Lake Washington
\n(Photo Asashel Curtis, 1924, of the Stetson store in Lake Forest Park.
\nImage courtesy the Shoreline Historical Museum.)<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ole Hanson on Gehr Erickson Road (Bothell Way), 1910<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Ole Hanson on Gehr Erickson Road (now Bothell Way) in 1910<\/p><\/div>
\n
Ole Hanson on Gehr Erickson Road (now Bothell Way) in 1910
\nphoto Asahel Curtis, North Seattle Improvement Company Promotional Booklet, 1912<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Original Kenmore schoolhouse, 1936<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Original Kenmore schoolhouse, in dilapidated condition (1936) <\/p><\/div>
\n
The original Kenmore schoolhouse had not been in
\nuse for many years by the time this photo was taken;
\nit was later put back into good order.<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Goat Trail Road, 1910<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Goat Trail Road, 1910<\/p><\/div>\n
Goat Trail Road (NE 178th\/NE 182nd) as seen in 1910
\nfrom the western boundry of what is now Uplake.
\nPhoto Asashel Curtis, 1910, for the North Seattle Improvement Company.
\nImage courtesy the Shoreline Historical Museum.<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n McMaster Shingle Mill worker's shack, circa 1914<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>McMaster Shingle Mill worker's shack, circa 1914 (From the collection of Priscilla Droge) <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
\n Uplake Terrace, from the air, December 1953<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Uplake Terrace, from the air, December 1953<\/p><\/div>\n
Large (1280-pixel) version<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Huge (2900-pixel) version<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Current aerial view<\/a><\/span>
\nFrom a stet of a photo found attached to the original plat map, possibly by Pope and Talbot Developers.<\/p>\nWe speculate that the white\u00a0areas are snow, already melted off the trees; it was a particularly snowy winter. The road along the bottom of the photo is\u00a0Bothell Way, and the road on the far right Cat’s Whiskers Road, or 61st Avenue NE.<\/p>\n
(Recovered from a damaged photo stet, photographer unknown, provided by long-time Uplake resident Jim Palm)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
\n The Red Brick Road passing Uplake, Kenmore, circa 1914-1917<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/a>The Red Brick Road passing Uplake, Kenmore, circa 1914-1917<\/p><\/div>\n
Soon, the lake will be lowered, the train line will become the Burke-Gilman Trail, and\u00a040 years later the road will become\u00a0Bothell Way, and most of the land shown on the\u00a0far side of road will become the neighborhood of Uplake, in Kenmore.<\/p>\n
<\/center>
(From the collection of Priscilla Droge)<\/span><\/center><\/p>\n
From approximately 1915, a postcard, a hand-coloured black-and-white photograph showing Bothell Way heading west into Kenmore – and a misspelled Sammamish River. It’s very unusual to see a photo of any kind looking west from that far east! The rail line visible in the postcard is now Burke-Gilman Trail.<\/p>\n
Below that, enjoy the same view – as best I could manage it – using Apple Maps.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
back to 1971<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on November 16, 2015<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n A little while ago, I bought a Japanese-made Korean doll which had been packaged away in 1971 – or so it appears, given that the copy of The Seattle Times<\/i> used to pad it were from 1971 – and hey, look – an Uplake house for sale! <\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nAlso another house elsewhere in Kenmore – this one doesn’t have an address.<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nBoth from the Sunday, July 18th, 1971 issue of The Seattle Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n here comes the train<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on April 26, 2013<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n
Train Towards Kenmore, 1930<\/i>
A train from Seattle enters Kenmore, near 55th Avenue NE, in 1930.
(photo courtesy Kenmore Historical Society Newsletter)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Busy Winter Day, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Busy Winter Day, 1924<\/p><\/div>
\n
Photo Asahel Curtis, courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum<\/center>
\nThis photo shows business is brisk at L.F. Stetson Sr.’s general store in Lake Forest Park on a winter day in 1924. The store, located at the intersection of Victory Boulevard (Old Brick Road\/Bothell Way\/SR-522) and what will become Ballinger Way, was just west of what is now Kenmore city limits, and serviced customers in Lake Forest Park and Kenmore, on their way to Seattle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Kenmore's Log Boom, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Kenmore's Log Boom, 1924<\/p><\/div>
\n
Photo Asahel Curtis, courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum<\/center>
\nThis photograph shows the Kenmore Log Boom in 1928, as seen from Victory Boulevard (the Old Brick Road, now Bothell Way\/SR-522). This is now part of Log Boom Park. Tracks of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway, now Burke-Gilman Trail, can be seen in the foreground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Victory Boulevard (Old Brick Road), towards Uplake, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Victory Boulevard (Old Brick Road), northeast towards Uplake, 1924<\/p><\/div>
\n
Photo Asahel Curtis, courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum<\/center>
\nBy this time, the Brick Road (now Bothell Way\/SR-522) had been renamed Victory Boulevard after the Great War (now World War I). The curve in the road visible in the distance is in what is now Kenmore western city limits; Kenmore’s downtown, already present, is off camera to the right; if you look carefully, you can spot the gap in the trees marking Cat’s Whiskers Road (61st Avenue NE). Uplake would be laid out 25 years later, on the hill visible in photograph centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ballanger, Burke, and Goat Trail, 1915<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Ballanger, Burke, and Goat Trail, 1915<\/p><\/div>
\nThis 1915 photo of Lake Forest Park’s eastern houses shows the pre-lowering Lake Washington, along with the railroad which is now Burke-Gilman Trail, and Goat Trail Road heading off towards what is now Uplake, in Kenmore. Photo courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
\n The Dixie Inn of Kenmore, in 1927<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>The Dixie Inn of Kenmore, in 1927<\/p><\/div>
\n
Prohibition-era Kenmore was a centre for Seattle-area country dining
\n(meaning drinking) and dancing (also meaning drinking). The Dixie Inn was one
\nof many such establishments.<\/p>\n(Image courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum Barbara L. Drake Bender Collection.)<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
\n Red Brick Road at Ballanger Way, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Red Brick Road at Ballanger Way, looking west into Kenmore from Lake Forest Park<\/p><\/div>
\n
Red Brick Road at Ballanger Way, looking west into Kenmore from Lake Forest Park
\nKenmore’s downtown hill and eastern hill can be seen in the
\nbackground, as well as the northern tip of Lake Washington
\n(Photo Asashel Curtis, 1924, of the Stetson store in Lake Forest Park.
\nImage courtesy the Shoreline Historical Museum.)<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ole Hanson on Gehr Erickson Road (Bothell Way), 1910<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Ole Hanson on Gehr Erickson Road (now Bothell Way) in 1910<\/p><\/div>
\n
Ole Hanson on Gehr Erickson Road (now Bothell Way) in 1910
\nphoto Asahel Curtis, North Seattle Improvement Company Promotional Booklet, 1912<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Original Kenmore schoolhouse, 1936<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Original Kenmore schoolhouse, in dilapidated condition (1936) <\/p><\/div>
\n
The original Kenmore schoolhouse had not been in
\nuse for many years by the time this photo was taken;
\nit was later put back into good order.<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Goat Trail Road, 1910<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Goat Trail Road, 1910<\/p><\/div>\n
Goat Trail Road (NE 178th\/NE 182nd) as seen in 1910
\nfrom the western boundry of what is now Uplake.
\nPhoto Asashel Curtis, 1910, for the North Seattle Improvement Company.
\nImage courtesy the Shoreline Historical Museum.<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n McMaster Shingle Mill worker's shack, circa 1914<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>McMaster Shingle Mill worker's shack, circa 1914 (From the collection of Priscilla Droge) <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
\n Uplake Terrace, from the air, December 1953<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/a>Uplake Terrace, from the air, December 1953<\/p><\/div>\n
Large (1280-pixel) version<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Huge (2900-pixel) version<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Current aerial view<\/a><\/span>
\nFrom a stet of a photo found attached to the original plat map, possibly by Pope and Talbot Developers.<\/p>\nWe speculate that the white\u00a0areas are snow, already melted off the trees; it was a particularly snowy winter. The road along the bottom of the photo is\u00a0Bothell Way, and the road on the far right Cat’s Whiskers Road, or 61st Avenue NE.<\/p>\n
(Recovered from a damaged photo stet, photographer unknown, provided by long-time Uplake resident Jim Palm)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>
\n The Red Brick Road passing Uplake, Kenmore, circa 1914-1917<\/a><\/h2>\n Posted on December 27, 2011<\/a> by uplake<\/a><\/div>\n <\/p>\n<\/a>The Red Brick Road passing Uplake, Kenmore, circa 1914-1917<\/p><\/div>\n
Soon, the lake will be lowered, the train line will become the Burke-Gilman Trail, and\u00a040 years later the road will become\u00a0Bothell Way, and most of the land shown on the\u00a0far side of road will become the neighborhood of Uplake, in Kenmore.<\/p>\n
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A little while ago, I bought a Japanese-made Korean doll which had been packaged away in 1971 – or so it appears, given that the copy of The Seattle Times<\/i> used to pad it were from 1971 – and hey, look – an Uplake house for sale! <\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nAlso another house elsewhere in Kenmore – this one doesn’t have an address.<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nBoth from the Sunday, July 18th, 1971 issue of The Seattle Times<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div> Busy Winter Day, 1924<\/p><\/div> Kenmore's Log Boom, 1924<\/p><\/div> Victory Boulevard (Old Brick Road), northeast towards Uplake, 1924<\/p><\/div> Ballanger, Burke, and Goat Trail, 1915<\/p><\/div> The Dixie Inn of Kenmore, in 1927<\/p><\/div> (Image courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum Barbara L. Drake Bender Collection.)<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div> Red Brick Road at Ballanger Way, looking west into Kenmore from Lake Forest Park<\/p><\/div> Ole Hanson on Gehr Erickson Road (now Bothell Way) in 1910<\/p><\/div> Original Kenmore schoolhouse, in dilapidated condition (1936) <\/p><\/div> Goat Trail Road, 1910<\/p><\/div>\n McMaster Shingle Mill worker's shack, circa 1914 (From the collection of Priscilla Droge) <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div> Uplake Terrace, from the air, December 1953<\/p><\/div>\n Large (1280-pixel) version<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Huge (2900-pixel) version<\/a>\u00a0–\u00a0Current aerial view<\/a><\/span> We speculate that the white\u00a0areas are snow, already melted off the trees; it was a particularly snowy winter. The road along the bottom of the photo is\u00a0Bothell Way, and the road on the far right Cat’s Whiskers Road, or 61st Avenue NE.<\/p>\n (Recovered from a damaged photo stet, photographer unknown, provided by long-time Uplake resident Jim Palm)<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div> The Red Brick Road passing Uplake, Kenmore, circa 1914-1917<\/p><\/div>\n Soon, the lake will be lowered, the train line will become the Burke-Gilman Trail, and\u00a040 years later the road will become\u00a0Bothell Way, and most of the land shown on the\u00a0far side of road will become the neighborhood of Uplake, in Kenmore.<\/p>\n <\/center>here comes the train<\/a><\/h2>\n
Train Towards Kenmore, 1930<\/i>
A train from Seattle enters Kenmore, near 55th Avenue NE, in 1930.
(photo courtesy Kenmore Historical Society Newsletter)<\/small><\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>Busy Winter Day, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nThis photo shows business is brisk at L.F. Stetson Sr.’s general store in Lake Forest Park on a winter day in 1924. The store, located at the intersection of Victory Boulevard (Old Brick Road\/Bothell Way\/SR-522) and what will become Ballinger Way, was just west of what is now Kenmore city limits, and serviced customers in Lake Forest Park and Kenmore, on their way to Seattle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>Kenmore's Log Boom, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nThis photograph shows the Kenmore Log Boom in 1928, as seen from Victory Boulevard (the Old Brick Road, now Bothell Way\/SR-522). This is now part of Log Boom Park. Tracks of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway, now Burke-Gilman Trail, can be seen in the foreground.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>Victory Boulevard (Old Brick Road), towards Uplake, 1924<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nBy this time, the Brick Road (now Bothell Way\/SR-522) had been renamed Victory Boulevard after the Great War (now World War I). The curve in the road visible in the distance is in what is now Kenmore western city limits; Kenmore’s downtown, already present, is off camera to the right; if you look carefully, you can spot the gap in the trees marking Cat’s Whiskers Road (61st Avenue NE). Uplake would be laid out 25 years later, on the hill visible in photograph centre.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>Ballanger, Burke, and Goat Trail, 1915<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nThis 1915 photo of Lake Forest Park’s eastern houses shows the pre-lowering Lake Washington, along with the railroad which is now Burke-Gilman Trail, and Goat Trail Road heading off towards what is now Uplake, in Kenmore. Photo courtesy Shoreline Historical Museum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>The Dixie Inn of Kenmore, in 1927<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(meaning drinking) and dancing (also meaning drinking). The Dixie Inn was one
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\nKenmore’s downtown hill and eastern hill can be seen in the
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\n(Photo Asashel Curtis, 1924, of the Stetson store in Lake Forest Park.
\nImage courtesy the Shoreline Historical Museum.)<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>Ole Hanson on Gehr Erickson Road (Bothell Way), 1910<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nphoto Asahel Curtis, North Seattle Improvement Company Promotional Booklet, 1912<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>Original Kenmore schoolhouse, 1936<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nit was later put back into good order.<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>Goat Trail Road, 1910<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nfrom the western boundry of what is now Uplake.
\nPhoto Asashel Curtis, 1910, for the North Seattle Improvement Company.
\nImage courtesy the Shoreline Historical Museum.<\/center><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>McMaster Shingle Mill worker's shack, circa 1914<\/a><\/h2>\n
<\/a>Uplake Terrace, from the air, December 1953<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nFrom a stet of a photo found attached to the original plat map, possibly by Pope and Talbot Developers.<\/p>\nThe Red Brick Road passing Uplake, Kenmore, circa 1914-1917<\/a><\/h2>\n
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