Pancakes Anyone?

Tonight's photo is of Alaskan Way on the Seattle waterfront.  It is here on this date in 1947, that good ol' Ivar Haglund took full advantage of a tank car spill to become the "prince of corn."  A tank car of corn syrup had ruptured and began to spill on the street, about 1000 gallons of the stuff.  The action all took place in front of Ivar's Acres of Claim restaurant.  Ivar being Ivar, had some pancakes made and he then pull on hip waders and grabbed a box and sat down in the middle of the street and began spooning the syrup on his stack of pancakes.  Of course the news photographers ate it up and the photo was picked up by the wire services.  
My photo was taken from the sky bridge at Pier 66, the cruise ship terminal looking south toward the sticky scene of the 1947 spill.  It is hard to believe that our waterfront was once a functioning working waterfront, not just a tourist trap.