Pateros Panoramic - Then And Now

[sooperfly]

This pics for those folks that always go through Pateros to head up the Methow.  This is what it used to look like, pre - Wells Dam.
It's not lined up perfectly, I need to take the pictures from a different spot again. 

http://www.rivercolor.com/images/double_pano_small.jpg

[509er]

Cool, what year is the "then" pic?

[sooperfly]

Hmm.. sometime before 1967.   

I looked it over with some folks and I think they said either 61 or 62.

[wilsongideon]

wow pretty incredible!

[400out]

Amazing how things change

[Bearmtn]

great pics,wish I was around for before they dammed it, would have been really interesting to see.

[Bluemoon]

Favorite memory of Pateros...1972 Dove hunting....Got to have Pie and Milk with Buddy Ebson at the Pateros Cafe...14 years old and got to meet Jed Clamppet...Life was good...

[Skyvalhunter]

Hey maybe you could keep the area a little more on the QT as some of us like the fact it's not over crowded.

[CougarRae808]

Woot for Pateros. Thats down town at the library isn't it? How did you get a copy? Did Janice let you borrow it?

[sooperfly]

A few years ago at a fundraiser the town was selling copies.

[CougarRae808]

Ah sweet deal. I wish I would have known, I would have bought one!

[pjb3]

I like the "now" one better, MORE COLOR

[CougarRae808]

so when was the "now" picture taken? There is now a HUGE eyesore they call a hotel where the rv'ers used to park and they "updated" the superstop. I don't like that thing at all. Creates a huge block on the town and looks like crap anyways.

[sooperfly]

I think I took that panoramic picture two years ago.  I'll go and retake it again and try and get the perspective closer to the original.