Clayton Kauzlaric.
Clayton Kauzlaric.

Clayton Kauzlaric’s day job is already pretty cool. The Seattle man is a senior design director at Microsoft and makes all sorts of games for the Redmond giant.

But what Kauzlaric does in his spare time may impress you even more.

The gaming vet runs a blog called Northwest Then & Again where he posts photoshopped, cross-time images from the Seattle region that he’s produced. The result is a group of incredible, trippy pictures that show just how much has changed in Seattle over the years.

For example, did you know Seattle had its own version of “Hooverville” just south of downtown?

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Or that there used to be a roller coaster in West Seattle?

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Kauzlaric’s images also are educational. I especially like the one below, which shows Japanese residents boarding a train in front of the ferry terminal on Alaskan Way during their forced relocation to internment camps in 1942.

1942_Internment_AlaskanWay_2Here are some others:

The old Denny Hotel sits atop Denny Hill  from 2nd and Pine.
The old Denny Hotel sits atop Denny Hill from 2nd and Pine.
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Kauzlaric: “This shows a B50 Superfortress crashed just after taking off from Boeing Field in 1951. It clipped the Rainier brewery and destroyed the Lester Apartments, killing the six crewmen and five residents on the ground. In a previous life the apartments once had the distinction of being the largest bordello in the world, set up by Seattle’s mayor and chief of police, no less. The site is now beneath I-5.”
At 6th and Marion.
At 6th and Marion.
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The Golden Potlatch festival from 1913 near 2nd and Marion.

Thanks to Kauzlaric for letting us post these images. Check out more photos at his blog here.

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