UniverCity: The city within city, the story of the University District

by Roy G. Nielsen

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0961705205
• ISBN13: 9780961705206
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: University Lions Foundation]
• Length: 167 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

The "U" District- My Backyard During the '50, '60's & '70's.

Author-Roy G. Nielsen, uses a wealth of photographic images from Seattle's- Pacific National Bank, photo collection, now at MOHAI- matches images to words, all the while, the author sketches the history of the original four sections of land, deeded by the U.S. Government in the 1860's, that would eventually become Seattle's-University District. For myself... Having grown-up in the "U" District, during the late 1950's through the tumulteous-1970's, this book brings back-vivid memories of businesses that once dotted the "Ave" and other "U"-District arterials and side streets. So thorough, is this book in photographic "panorama", that it even includes a photo of the house that I was raised in! The "U"-District will always be in my heart, even though the many businesses and the building's that housed them, have long since fallen to the wrecking ball..! "I guess they call that progress..!"

Finally!, A Book About the Neighborhood, that I grew-up in!

Author-Roy G. Nielsen, does a superb job of assembling a book, one of which is a pictorial history of the University District-neighborhood(formerly-Brooklyn)of Seattle, Washington-from the late 1800's to the 1970's; to one of a factual written history- from it's original platting of two sections of land, The Business district, to the number of properties that were razed,improved and or occupied and built upon by the University of Washington, beginning when the original campus moved from the Metropolitan tract-located in downtown Seattle in the 1860's, to it's new campus in 1890. Covers the Alaskan Yukon Pacific Exposition-held on the campus grounds of the University of Washington in 1909, of which a couple of original AYPE structures still exist! Very detailed in every respect, with many seldom seen photographs, derived from personal, archived business and museum collections. A must have!-if your an interested Seattle native or a University of Washington history buff!