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This is an image of a building or other location within the Pioneer Square-Skid Road Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The district has been successively enlarged, and hence has multiple NRHP IDs: 70000086, 78000341, and 88000739
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English: Seattle, 1936. Flood on Second Avenue Extension at Main Street. A broken water main at 5th and Jackson flooded the area. Quite a few buildings in this area lost upper stories after the 1949 earthquake. The upper two stories of the Furuya Building were just recently restored on 2009–2010.
Item 49866, Water Department Photographic Negatives (Record Series 8200-13 ), Seattle Municipal Archives.
The same view in 2010 The former Hotel Main sign says "Swannie's Comedy Underground", although that has since moved.
Date Taken on 27 March 1936
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Flooded street on Second Ave. Ext., 1936 This image comes from the Seattle Municipal Archives, via Flickr.

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Author Seattle Municipal Archives from Seattle, WA
Camera location47° 36′ 00.05″ N, 122° 19′ 49.53″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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