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=== Postwar period === The decline of the depression years was briefly arrested by [[World War II]], as the [[U.S. Navy]] built a reserve center on the site of David Denny's former mill, just west of Cascade and [[Kenworth#History|Kenworth]] expanded a factory on Mercer Street. Decline resumed after the war, and was greatly exacerbated when the April 13, 1949 earthquake caused structural damage to the Cascade School.<ref name=Fiset /> Controversy ensued over whether or not to repair the school, but it was ultimately demolished since local businesses led by the [[Seattle Times]] desired an increasingly industrial rather than residential character neighborhood.<ref>{{Harvnb|Link|2004|p=14}}</ref> The school was replaced by a warehouse for the school district, while [[#Cascade Playground|its playground]] remained as a public park.<ref name=Fiset /> The year 1949 also saw the first seeds of the "new" Cascade Neighborhood that would emerge almost half a century later: the Washington Teachers Credit Union was established, with quarters on Eastlake Avenue. It would become the Washington School Employees Credit Union (1963), and eventually part of [[PEMCO]] Financial Services, still based in the Cascade Neighborhood as of 2008.<ref name=Fiset /> New zoning ordinances based on the 1956 Comprehensive Plan of [[Seattle]] forbade any new residential uses in Cascade Neighborhood. The plan also recommended two new freeways through the area. On the northern edge, the [[Bay Freeway (Seattle)|Bay Freeway]] would cover roughly nine city blocks between Mercer and Valley Streets, with ramps connecting to the [[Washington State Route 99|Aurora Freeway]] which had been constructed in 1932. The city lacked funding for the project and plans were eventually scrapped along with the [[Reginald H. Thomson#R.H. Thomson Expressway|R.H. Thomson Expressway]]. The second freeway was [[Interstate 5]], which was constructed in 1962. More than seven blocks of residences and retail businesses on the east side of Eastlake were razed to make way for [[Interstate 5]]. The freeway cut Cascade off entirely from neighboring [[Capitol Hill, Seattle|Capitol Hill]].<ref name=Fiset /> Previously they had been tied together by multiple streets and stairways.<ref>Insurance Maps of Seattle, Washington, Volume 4, Sanborn Map Company, 1917βJune 1950, sheets 441, 442, 451, 468, 470, 471, 484, 485, 486; especially 471, 486.</ref><ref>{{Harvnb|Link|2004|pp=14β15}}</ref> (The upper half-block of the [[East Republican Street Stairway|E. Republican Street Stairway]] or Republican Hill Climb east of Melrose Ave E. remains east of the freeway, and has status as a [[List of Landmarks in Seattle|city landmark]]; it once extended two blocks farther, down to Eastlake Ave E.<ref>[https://www.cityofseattle.gov/neighborhoods/preservation/e.htm Landmarks Alphabetical Listing for E] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721035316/https://www.cityofseattle.gov/neighborhoods/preservation/e.htm |date=2011-07-21 }}, Seattle Department of Neighborhoods. Retrieved on 2008-02-06.</ref><ref>Paul Dorpat, [http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=3261 Seattle Neighborhoods: Republican Hill Climb between Capitol Hill and the Cascade Neighborhood completed on February 25, 1910], HistoryLink, 6 May 2001. Retrieved on 2008-02-06.</ref>) Currently, the only remaining direct route between the two is Denny Way at the south border of the neighborhood.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20020918185412/http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/nmaps/html/NN-1230L.htm Map NN-1230-L], Seattle City Clerk's Neighborhood Map Atlas, Seattle City Clerk's Office. Retrieved 6 February 2008.</ref>
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