User talk:Mrwojo

Diablo Dam

You usually know what you are doing, so I will ask instead of simply reverting: why would being "near Diablo Dam" be a reason to move an image from Category:Whatcom County, Washington to Category:Diablo Dam any more than being "near the Empire State Building" would be a reason to put an image in Category:Empire State Building, etc.? - Jmabel ! talk 00:55, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

I appreciate the ping and enjoy having reasons to dig up more info about images like this. I believe the photo is meant to depict the site of the Diablo Dam for Seattle City Light shortly prior to construction. Related photos:

• "Diablo Canyon showing with footbridge at the dam site, June 30, 1919"
• "Diablo Canyon as seen from the water, with footbridge overhead, May 27, 1927" (and "site of future Diablo Dam") -- same series
• Other photos from May 27, 1927: [1]

Perhaps a Diablo Canyon category might be more appropriate? Mrwojo (talk) 03:59, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

• Now that I see those, I guess it is the dam site and Category:Diablo Dam, but let's also get the description in line with that. So do you believe it would be accurate to say that in File:North Cascades near Diablo Dam site, 1927 (37726132162).jpg the "future dam site" is roughly where the high bridge can be seen? - Jmabel ! talk 15:27, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

Yes, that sounds good. In the 1919 photo, the dam would be just beyond the bridge. That perspective appears in a couple film clips with the dam under construction: (YouTube 1) (YouTube 2). Mrwojo (talk) 19:56, 18 May 2020 (UTC)

File:Shell Theatre, probably 1910 (SEATTLE 866).jpg

This one's a bit subtle.

The sign says, "Owned and operated by The Circuit Theatre Co., 2nd Ave. and Mad[ison St.]", but we shouldn't be listing the theater location by where its management company was located. I've been trying to work out exactly where this was, and I'm quite sure it was not at the corner of Second and Madison, that nothing that looked at all like this ever was.

So I'm reverting the cats for those two streets, and adding an "unidentified locations" cat.

I'm hoping eventually to work out just where this one was. I suspect someone somewhere has written a decent biographical sketch of Eugene Levy that would give this to us if nothing else does, or once libraries are open again I can search through old Polk's directories, or I just might be able to identify it at some point from a broader picture of the same theater. - Jmabel ! talk 17:24, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Oh, good catch!

The following article includes the same photograph:

• Taso G. Lagos (2003) Film Exhibition in Seattle, 1897-1912: Leisure activity in a scraggly, smelly frontier town, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, 23:2, 101-115, DOI: 10.1080/0143968032000091059, p. 112-113

and mentions a Shell Theatre on Third Avenue according to Polk's 1909:

• Polk's Seattle City Directory (Seattle, 1909), p. 2014

Mrwojo (talk) 19:56, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Funny, I know Taso Lagos: he used to be a DJ on KCMU (which became KEXP) and his father owned a much-lamented Greek restaurant in the U. District. Too bad that doesn't give a precise address, but Third Avenue seems likely. I wonder if this was in the Liberty Building, which used to be just north of Union, across Union from the old post office? That gives me something to work with... - Jmabel ! talk 21:40, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Nope, probably not the Liberty Building. I guess I'll find it in that 1909 Polk's once libraries are open again. - Jmabel ! talk 21:48, 26 October 2020 (UTC)