#Throwback Thursday: Seafair Photos from Years Gone By
Throwback Thursday, the Seafair edition!
By Lauren Mang July 31, 2014
Seattle’s famous weeks-long, events-filled summer festival culminates this weekend with the Blue Angels air show (yes, they’re back!), hydroplane boat races along Lake Washington, SalmonFest and plenty more activities to keep you busy. With the F/A-18 Hornets roaring overhead already, and in the spirit of the ever-nostalgic Throwback Thursday, we dove into the Seattle Municipal Archives to find some very vintage and way cool snapshots from Seafairs past. Feast your eyes on Seafair Queens of yore, floats, marching bands, Blue Angels in the skies and more from Seattle’s beloved summer celebration.
Seafair Parade floats, 1954
Credit: Seattle Municpal Archives; City Light Photographic Negatives
Marching bands in the Seafair Parade, 1954
Credit: Seattle Municipal Archives; City Light Photographic Negatives
Seafair Parade near the Hotel Georgian, 1954
Credit: Seattle Municipal Archives
Seattle City Light float at the Seafair Parade, 1954
Credit: Seattle Municipal Archives; City Light Photographic Negatives
Seattle City Light float, 1956
Credit: Seattle Municipal Archives; City Light Photographic Negatives
Sayres Park Seafair race, 1964
Credit: Seattle Municipal Archives, Don Sherwood Parks History Collection
The Seafair Queen, 1968
Credit: Seattle Municipal Archives, City Light Photographic Negatives
Councilmember Jeanette Williams at the Seafair Torchlight Parade, 1989
Credit: Seattle Municipal Archives Photograph Collection
Seafair Princesses at the University District Jr. Grand Seafair Parade, 2002
Credit: Seattle Municipal Archives, Erik Stuhaug
Bookmobile at University District Jr. Grand Seafair Parade, 2002
Credit: Seattle Municipal Archives, Erik Stuhaug
U.S. Navy Blue Angels at Boeing Museum of Flight during Seafair, 2003
Credit: Mate 2nd Class Eli J. Medellin
Ivar’s Clams in the University District Jr. Grand Seafair Parade, 2002
Credit: Seattle Municipal Archives, Fleets and Facilities Collection, Erik Stuhaug
Blue Angels perform above Lake Washington, 2004
Credit: Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Eli J. Medellin
The Navy Northwest Band plays at Westlake Park, 2005
Credit: Photographer’s Mate 3rd Class Jacob J. Kirk
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