Something I've wondered about for a while: If you get on the King County Parcel Viewer site and select the 1936 aerial photo basemap, you can get a good resolut

Something I've wondered about for a while: If you get on the King County Parcel Viewer site and select the 1936 aerial photo basemap, you can get a good resolution view of the Seattle area from that time. If you look at Fort Lawton (now Discovery Park) there's a conspicuous east-west strip that looks like a primitive airfield. It's not listed on the historical airports site, and from digging around on Google books I think I saw it talked about as a rifle range, but I also saw a reference to it as a place where a plane could land in an emergency. Anyway, it makes me wonder if the government could have been doing early aviation work there and just kept it classified. (Or maybe it was just a very long rifle range...)