Panama Hotel Tea House, November 15, 2002

  

 

Late afternoon view from the parking deck of my workplace in Redmond... looking due east toward the western face of the Cascade Mountains... where the snow is beginning to pile up...

 

Friday evening at the tea house... in the old Nihonmachi (JapanTown) section of Seattle's Chinatown...

 

www.panamahotelseattle.com

 

History

 

       

 

   

 

The hidden room, beneath the floor. Near the back section of the counter a section of floor has been replaced with glass, allowing a view into the basement below. After the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor by Imperial Japan, local residents of Japanese decent hastily stored belongings there prior to being sent to internment camps. After WWII some of the items were reclaimed, but many were not and were forgotten about until the early 90's. Through the window in the floor one can see some of the personal effects just as they were left in the 1940's...

 

 

High ceilings, wooden floors, and brick walls. Historical photographs on the walls. A very quiet ambience...

 

       

 

 

 

The following Sunday afternoon... on the edge of Puget Sound at Sunset Hill Park, in the Ballard section of Seattle. This park is on a bluff just north of where the Lake Union / Lake Washington Ship Canal connects with Puget Sound at Salmon Bay. The snowcapped Olympic Mountains are to the west. A strong, cold wind was blowing off the Sound...

 

       

 

www.pan.ci.seattle.wa.us/parks/parkspaces/sunsethill.htm

 

www.nwboat.com/shilshole

 

www.cityofseattle.net/tour/shilsho.htm