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Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographers captured these glimpses of daily life around the community. Click on a thumbnail to see a page featuring a larger, more detailed version of the image.

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A fixture in the lower Queen Anne neighborhood for several generations, Sacred Heart Catholic Church .continues to offer at least two Masses a day, as well as meals and services for the needy..

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The Space Needle, easily one of Seattle's most popular landmarks, is reflected in the windows of a neighboring building.

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Window-worker Bill Henne climbs on a glass roof at the Larry's Market development on Mercer Street. The site also houses a McDonald's, Bartell Drugs, Seattle's Best Coffee and several other shops.

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Lori Broznowski leads an aerobics class for the after-work crowd at Queen Anne Health and Fitness.

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Seattle Opera general director Speight Jenkins offers a kiss for good luck to mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager prior to a performace at Seattle Center's Opera House.

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Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers Lisa Apple and Maynard Stewart take part in company class in a Seattle Center studio.

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A child walks past a line of people waiting for a free lunch outside Sacred Heart Catholic Church west of Seattle Center.

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Trained to sit patiently waiting for donations from tourists, a dog named Blue attracts attention from a young passerby at Seattle Center. "I make sure she's happy and well fed," says the dog's owner, Carlos Aguilar. "We work for two hours a day or until we get $20. I'm not greedy. I love her very much."

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Walter Meyer dips dance partner Phyllis Birtle during an event called "Center Friends Dancing" at Seattle Center House. The dances, featuring live music, are held on Mondays and Wednesdays.

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Sister Eileen Parks, 83, embraces her favorite rhody, gowing on the south side of the Pacific Northwest Ballet building. The rhododendron was transplanted from near the Coliseum when it became Key Arena.

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Practically in the shadow of the Space Needle, a long line forms for Sacred Heart Church's weekly free hot lunch for street people.

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Coffee-lovers gather at lower Queen Anne's stylish Uptown Espresso, getting their jolt of java in an artistic setting.

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HEADLINES
Saturday, August 30, 1997

Gentrification is in full swing

Neighbors split on whether changes will be good or bad

Upscale eateries invading bastion of old-style diners

Affordable rents becoming endangered species

Nun's efforts saved Center's 'Holy Rhoddy'

Area also 'home' for street people

The Blob is now a pile of debris

Jon Hahn: Names of the gas may have changed, but the service is still the same

Things to do while you're here

Scenes of Lower Queen Anne

Lower Queen Anne historical album

Lower Queen Anne by the numbers


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