Seeing the Gas Works Park

We visited the Gas Works Park overlooking Lake Washington with Seattle to the south. For more information on this interesting park, especially Al, the engineer, see 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_Works_Park

 This park rests on the site of a gasification plant that converted coal and later oil into gas for use by the city of Seattle. The plant operated from 1906 to 1956 until the supply of natural gas rendered the plant obsolete.

Part of the columns that cracked the coal into gas still exist.  A landscape architect was hired to make sense of a jumble of facilities comprising the plant.  Between 1962 and 1972 the site was converted into a park.

 

 Rubble from the foundations of discarded facilities was used to form this "lookout" for views of Lake Washington here looking toward the locks we visited previously.

 A nice view of Seattle.

 Part of the site turned into a play land for children.  Can you spot the seaplane about to land on Lake Washington?

 Huge compressors used in the gasification process.  Can you imagine what those operators of yore would have said with the drive shaft painted pink?