1941 ❖ LIGHTS OUT ON LAKE UNION

Lake Union, Seattle, WA. 
Blackout of 10 March 1941.

Original photo from the archives of the
Saltwater People Historical Society©

This photograph was taken during the blackout on the West Coast. The lighted area at left marks a shipyard on Lake Union in which the blackout was not observed owing to the necessity of continuing work on defense shipbuilding jobs. The curving trail of light, right center, indicates lights of a patrol boat on the lake. The gray area on the rooftops at lower right is from the bright moon that shone that night during the blackout.