Belltown Exposed

Photographer Staci Bernstein stages “living pictures” to tell the story of Seattle’s Belltown neighborhood, which was known as Film Row during the 1920s, became a haven for artists in the 1960s and 1970s, and gave birth to Grunge in the 1980s and 1990s. Bernstein and crew tell the local history decade by decade through vignettes and photographs labeled “two truths and a lie” or “two lies and a truth.” Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction!