When researching my 1950s era books, I’m always referring to my old Seattle map. A few weeks ago, I posted a map-mystery about some Seattle streets that have disappeared, but my old map also shows several streets that never even existed.
Seattle’s Magnolia neighborhood is a peninsula northwest of downtown. Per my 1950s era Kroll Map, Magnolia’s footprint was expected to balloon out several blocks into Elliott Bay and Puget Sound. My map shows that future fantasy expansion complete with streets names.
I’m not sure if they planned to wash away the Magnolia hillside (that’s what happened to Seattle’s Denny Regrade neighborhood) but whatever they were planning, all that remains is an old map showing the streets and avenues of a future that never happened.
Jennifer Berg, Historical Mystery Author 
Ha, ha, the Spirit of Progress in Seattle — making it up as they go along, planning streets which are not there! Very forward-looking!
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True, and a lot of it didn’t amount to much! 😉 It’s like the whole downtown patchwork of streets, some patches are aligned with the waterfront others aligned along N-S.
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They did it so that no one would come to Seattle. snicker
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