24 BEJEWELED PHOTOGRAPH BY XXXXX XXXXXX DOORWAY TO THE PAST YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THE QUOTE, “The more things change, the more they stay the same”. That saying certainly applies to Bellevue and the greater eastside. Bellevue has always been a place of new ideas and fantastic growth. In the early part of the 20th century, Bellevue had a reputation as a weekend getaway destination for Seattle residents who would arrive by ferry and spend the day. Bellevue was a small town with around 2,000 residents when the first bridge connected Seattle to the eastside by way of Mercer Island . After WWII, Bellevue rapidly evolved from small-scale farming to classic post-war suburbia with neighborhoods the likes of Enatai, Beaux Arts, Clyde Hill, View Crest, and Woodridge springing up, along with an open-air Bellevue Square, the John Danz Theater, and Belle Lanes Bowling. Bellevue High School used to stand in the middle of the current Bellevue Downtown Park until it moved to its current location in 1949. Today Bellevue Square is a well-known indoor mall, Belle Lanes is a Barnes and Nobel bookstore, and The John Danz Theater is a church. Cranes are everywhere. Still there The More Things Change 1959
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