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Apartments in Wedgwood: Oneida to Jasper
In the early 1900’s in Seattle, apartments were built along trolley routes to close-in neighborhoods such as Capitol Hill. Wedgwood was a remote neighborhood which didn’t begin to form an identity...
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Groceries and Growth in Wedgwood
Grocery stores in Wedgwood expanded with the growth of the neighborhood in the post-World-War-Two period of the 1940’s and 1950’s. Beginning in the 1970’s groceries and some other kinds of shops in...
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What about the “E” in Wedgwood?
The Wedgwood neighborhood in Seattle took its name from a real estate development which was started in 1941 by Albert Balch. In an interview for the community club newspaper in April 1956, Balch told...
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The Eastwood and Wedgwood Community Clubs
During the years of World War Two in the 1940’s all Seattleites had some concerns about the possibility of bombing, since Seattle is a coastal city. For this reason people took civil defense training...
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Shearwater part one: Navy housing in Wedgwood in the 1940s
Decatur Elementary School at 7711 43rd Ave NE in Wedgwood is on the site of what was Navy housing from 1945 to 1966. The first part of the school building was completed in 1961. With a later addition...
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Shearwater part two: the Wedgwood Community Club fights Shearwater in the 1950s
In the 1950’s the very active Wedgwood District Community Club made its voice heard in issues such as the completion of streets, water and other utilities, business district development in Wedgwood,...
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Shearwater part five: the end of Shearwater and the death of the Wedgwood...
In the early 1970’s the USA suffered through an economic recession, made worse in 1973 when an energy crisis began because of a middle-East oil and gas embargo. In the USA gas prices skyrocketed and...
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Dairy Queen in Wedgwood
The first Dairy Queen store opened in Illinois in 1940 with immediate success. The menu started out with ice cream and sundaes but soon expanded to malts, milkshakes, and banana splits. The company...
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The Theodora in Northeast Seattle
The Theodora building in northeast Seattle, located on 35th Ave NE closest to the corner of NE 68th Street, is going through a transition to new use. The Theodora Home was formerly low-income housing...
View ArticleHouse-Moving from Shearwater in Wedgwood
In January 1972 a very unusual house-moving event took place in the Wedgwood neighborhood in northeast Seattle. Twelve small houses (600 square feet each) were moved from 40th Ave NE near Decatur...
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