Throughout 2021 the Sunday Olympian’s Looking Back featured portrayed events and people from the Sylvester’s Window cityscape project. A neighborhood known as Little Hollywood had existed for many years along the shores of the Deschutes Estuary (now Capitol Lake), but expanded during the Great Depression, as depicted in the cityscape for 1933. Buildings were a mixture of float houses, temporary structures known as shanties, and more permanent structures such as Zamberlin’s Market, pictured here.
Olympia Fire Department collection, Washington State Archives, image SW-540-3-6-ph000012
Text © Deborah Ross and The Olympian 2021