Brick Avenues?EUR??,,????'??+Bygone Seattle Days

 

The avenues of Belltown, Seattle (First Ave. pictured), an area north of the central business district long ago flattening by city engineers for urban convenience, used to be brick paved.

Keith Harris of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently ?EUR??,,????'??lamented the loss of brick beneath our feet.?EUR??,,????'?? This missive was prompted when walking down Third Avenue in Belltown, Seattle and seeing that crews had stripped the upper layers of asphalt from the roadway for repair, exposing the former hardscape?EUR??,,????'??+red brick. ?EUR??,,????'??Why would anyone cover this red-brick road with asphalt??EUR??,,????'?? he wondered, all the while venturing to answer his own question: a case of ?EUR??,,????'??pragmatism versus idealism, cost versus beauty.