George Gulacsik Space Needle Photograph Collection
Preview up to 100 items from this collection below. The Space Needle’s construction during the early 1960s was an epic feat of architecture and design. George Gulacsik chronicled the project with over 2000 photos. Browse through our timeline to see the Needle’s construction milestones.
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Letter from Arthur Goodwin to Mrs. Patterson regarding her complaints about flower vendors outside her shop, November 30, 1927
Letter from Arthur Goodwin to Mrs. Patterson responding to her complaints that the flower vendors outside her shop at Pike Place Market are harming her business. Goodwin dismisses her complaint stating that he can see no way that the vendors are interferring with her business and there must be some other cause if it is suffering. Goodwin states 'We have done everything possible ourselves to assist you; your rent is not exhorbitant and we feel that we can do nothing further to assist you. We hope, however, that you will be able to build a business in this location, as it has enjoyed a good patronage for many years past.'
Identifier: spl_sh_00116
Date: 1927-11-30
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Workers installing cross-tie between Space Needle legs, ca. September 12, 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_69670021
Date: 1961-09-12
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Child on rock at unidentified coastal beach, ca. August 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68840028
Date: 1961-08
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View north from 1st Ave. and Cherry, 1870
Transcribed from front of photograph: "Streets. Front Street [1st Ave.]. 1870. Looking North from Cherry Street. 1. Intelligencer building. 2. L. A. Treen shoe store. 3. S. L. Benjamin book store." Transcribed from back of photo: "F. W. Wald, hardware. Reinig store (agent for Singer sewing machines). Over Reinig's, Puget Sound Business College. Left side: Intelligencer building. Treen & Co. shoe store. S.L. Benjamin book store."
Identifier: spl_shp_5174
Date: 1870
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Lowman Building, 1907
Transcribed from photograph: "Buildings. Lowman building. First Ave. and Cherry St. 1907. 1. Alaska building. 2. Railway Exchange building."
Identifier: spl_shp_14659
Date: 1907
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John J. McGilvra house, 1870
Transcribed from photograph: "Seattle Houses. McGilvra, John J. Exterior. Laurel Shade Road. Built 1864; destroyed by fire 1933. 1870." Laurel Shade Road can be seen in the 1905 and 1912 Baist Atlases. It runs along the present-day path of 43rd Ave. E.
Identifier: spl_shp_22913
Date: 1870
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Pacific Builder and Engineer, v. 4, no. 42, Oct. 20, 1906
Identifier: spl_pbe_3022043_1906_04_42
Date: 1906-10-20
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Workers on Space Needle core, ca. July 1961
Identifier: spl_gg_68810017
Date: 1961-07
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Ruins at 2nd Ave. and Columbia St. following the Great Fire, June 1889
Fire. Ruins. Front Street. Looking West from Second Avenue and Columbia Street from the Boston Block.
Identifier: spl_shp_5049
Date: 1889
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Lake City Branch, Seattle Public Library, ca. 1966
Transcribed from photograph: "Seattle Public Library. Branches. Lake City branch. 12501 - 28th N. E. Built 1966. Bronze gates designed by George Tsutakawa. View from the inside taken from the right. Photo by John Morse. John Morse, architect."
Identifier: spl_shp_21871
Date: 1966?
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