Shilshole/Sunset Hill
Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer Meryl Schenker 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.
Keith Hodgkinson of Crown Hill is flanked on the left by friend Hulda Bodin and on the right by volunteer Mary Lou Stai, while Grant Baxter looks on at the Northwest Senior Center in the Sunset Hill area. Friday mornings, when the Jolly Jivers band comes to play, are big at the center.
The view down 62nd Avenue Northwest from Sunset Hill includes the scenic vista of the Olympic Mountains.
Mary Ross, who has been sailing for 30 years, teaches Nicola DiRienzo, left, and Dan Lewis how to rig a boat during a class given by the Seattle Sailing Club at Shilshole Bay Marina. The club has been around for 32 years, and has been owned by Bob and Randi Cairns for 23 years.
Pam Moller and her daughter Whitney, 16, joke after Whitney gets home from crew practice. The Moller family has lived on their 39-foot sailboat nine years.
Phillip Raisor, lock and mam operator at the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks in Ballard, throws a line to a boat entering the locs from the Shilshole Bay side.
Widely known pottery artist Regnor Reinholdtsen takes care of his 7-month-old granddaughter, Camryn Rose Smith, in the Sunset Hill studio where he's been located for 30 years.
Kevin Carrabine, president of the 250-member Sunset Hill Community Club, sits outside the building built in 1929 by the Sunset Hill Improvement Club.
Walter Pawelko has been the owner of Walter's Cafe on 32nd Avenue Northwest for the past nine years.
Children from the Ravenna Eckstein Community Center preschool go on a field trip to the Hiram Chittenden Locks. Waving goodbye to a fishing boat is 3-year-old Teresa Suh, seated next to her mother, Junghyun.
Shilshole Bay Marina, run by the Port of Seattle, is home to 1,500 boats. Eighty percent of those are sailboats, and there is a thriving community of liveaboard boaters.
Wayne Espy lives aboard his sailboat at Shilshole Bay Marina. "It's like living in a fish bowl," he says, but he's adjusted happily.
Seven-month-old Camyrn Rose Smith stands in one of the clay pieces made by her grandfather, pottery artist Regnor Reinholdtsen.
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