YOU CAN NOW DRIVE TO MERCER ISLAND….A POST-INTELLIGENCER MOTORLOGUE  reprinted from the Automotive Section of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 9, 1924  (see pictures on p. 10 and back cover)
From the beginning of history, islands have been bound intimately into the romance of the human race.  Islands have supplied the filmy fabric of legends; they have nurtured poets and inspired poetry.  And they have provided the more solid materials on which civilizations have been built.  Two of the earth's present great powers rest upon islands.  There seems to be something about island snugness that engenders in a race the strength of homogeneity.  And on a small and beautiful island, like the one in Lake Washington, folks become neighborly.  It's a fine place to live.
LAKE WASHINGTON'S PRETTY MERCER ISLAND IS IN REALITY ONE OF SEATTLE'S CITY PARKS
Bridge Now Gives Easy Access to Island, Which Also Has Splendid Ferry Service-- Residents Plan Numerous Improvements
By Alvaro C. Shoemaker, March 1924

MERCER ISLAND no longer exists. This statement is not so startling as at first it might seem. The Lake Washington gem did not drop into its surrounding waters as did the Sacred Island of Japan in the recent cataclysm, Paradoxical as it may seem, Mercer Island disappeared by dropping into the world--through the agency of a bridge.
By the authority of geographical definition it is still an island. But repeating the formula, "An island is a body of land entirely surrounded by water," means little as you drive your car over the substantial span which, in all practical essentials, makes Mercer Island an integral part of the mainland.  While this bridge may have destroyed, in some measure, the sense of insularity enjoyed by the residents of this jewel of jade rising from the blue setting of Lake Washington, it has resulted in advantages vastly compensatory in other directions. It has linked their system of roads, already developed, including a boulevard nearly fifteen miles long, to Lake Washington Boulevard, a fifty-five-mile concrete drive entirely encircling Lake Washington. (cont. on p. 6)