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All Over The Map: When the numbers came up for the Seattle waterfront April 30, 2021 at 9:03 am
The large 59 visible on the Seattle Aquarium is part of the pier numbering system that was launched in Seattle on May 1, 1944. (Feliks Banel/KIRO Radio)
In the middle of World War II – 77 years ago this week – the Port of Seattle re-numbered all the wharves and piers on the city’s busy wartime waterfront.
While those numbers on the piers, such as long-gone Pier 48 where Northwest Bookfest was held in the 1990s, or Ivar’s iconic home at Pier 54, can feel even to locals like they’ve been attached to those places since the dawn of time, they do only date back to May 1, 1944.
on local history by local historian David Reamer. Have a question about Anchorage history or an idea for a future article? Go to the form at the bottom of this story. ’Operation Reindeer gets underway as motor carrier executives and animal experts set plans. Edwin L. Isenberger (left), Operations Engineer for Consolidated Freightways Inc., discusses novel move with Smithsonian National Zoological Park s Senior Keeper Charles Thomas and Assocaite Director J. Lear Grimmer. This image was taken at the Seattle Zoo where the handlers stopped to visit with ’Pepper Pot ’ at the reindeer exhibition to set plans for the trip. Operation Reindeer was the name for the transfer of 14 reindeer and 1 caribou to the National Zoological Park from Alaska in 1958. (Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 365, Box 15, Folder: 11)