Not Great Meaning Good but Great Meaning Big .Downtown Seattle before the Great Fire. Photo by Peterson & Bro., c.1883.The Great Fire, June 6, 1889.Downtown Seattle after the Great Fire (First Avenue between Columbia Street & the Skid Road).
[Images from the Museum of History & Industry, via KUOW. Visit KUOW.org for more images and recently-found audio clips of survivors of the Great Seattle Fire.]