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  • MontlakeBridgeTroll
    MontlakeBridgeTroll Member Posts: 925
    Kingdome_Urinals said:

    For members of a degenerate website, a lot of you are true blue suburban squares.


    1980's Seattle was actually scarier than 2021 Seattle. Seattle has become so gentrified it's ridiculous.

    I don't think people were saying it is more scary now, but that it is more run down now, and it is more run down now in the public spaces. Sure there might be some newer buildings now in SLU and other places but there are way more people living on the streets now than there were in the 80s, and a lot more super crazy people living on the streets.

    In the 80s it was a few homeless runaways and a couple of down on their luck bikers trying to beg for a few bucks to get their transmission fixed so they could drive to Alaska and score a fishing job for the season.

    It is true though that the 80s could be a bit scary. One of those begging biker types threatened to kick my ass outside of Safeway for calling him a bum. And I hadn't even called him a bum. I just told him I didn't have any spare change because I had given my last spare change away to a bum a couple of blocks away.
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 69,763 Founders Club
    huskyhooligan said:

    80s-90s Ave:

    Off the Wall
    Second Time Around
    Tower Records
    Arnolds
    Space Port

    Always lots of print shops, poster shops.

    Big 5 I don't know if it's there still but old timers tell me it was a Nordstrom at one poont.

    I loved going into Off the Wall
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,523 Standard Supporter
    Kingdome_Urinals said:

    For members of a degenerate website, a lot of you are true blue suburban squares.

    "Seattle sucks, it's just depressing." You probably think Anthony's Home Port is how all restaurants shoule be.

    Most of you don't know shit about Seattle, I can tell.

    The waterfront, downtown, capitol hill, U-district has always been full of homeless people.

    1980's Seattle was actually scarier than 2021 Seattle. Seattle has become so gentrified it's ridiculous.

    You guys have no basis of comparison. And are mostly lame.

    Now you're talking the CD, not The Ave.

    Colors, colors....
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  • sinceredawg
    sinceredawg Member Posts: 863
    and picking up unshaved chicks at gargoyles
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 115,518 Founders Club
    I lived in a 4th floor walk up on 4th and Vine downtown in the early 80s

    Not scary at all

    And a Shakeys on the waterfront

    Met my wife at Sydney's a club on 2nd Ave
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  • Swaye
    Swaye Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 41,741 Founders Club
    YellowSnow said:

    Swaye said:

    The only thing getting assaulted on the Ave in the early 90's was any uterus that was somewhat willing to let me in.

    Knowing the real @swaye pretty well, I have such a hard time visualizing the guy having gone to school in Seattle. It just don't make no sense.
    I mean it was a little libby 30 years ago, but you know it was a totally different kind of libby. Seattle 30 years ago is completely unrecognizable from today. Back then it was a cool place. Now it's a complete and utter shithole.
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,843 Swaye's Wigwam
    I used to go to the Ave to score drugs and a copy of the weekly Helix - one of the better underground newspapers. That will give you an idea of OLD


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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,697 Founders Club
    Kingdome_Urinals said:

    For members of a degenerate website, a lot of you are true blue suburban squares.

    "Seattle sucks, it's just depressing." You probably think Anthony's Home Port is how all restaurants shoule be.

    Most of you don't know shit about Seattle, I can tell.

    The waterfront, downtown, capitol hill, U-district has always been full of homeless people.

    1980's Seattle was actually scarier than 2021 Seattle. Seattle has become so gentrified it's ridiculous.

    You guys have no basis of comparison. And are mostly lame.

    "Edgy" Seattle is overrated.

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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    Swaye said:

    The only thing getting assaulted on the Ave in the early 90's was any uterus that was somewhat willing to let me in.

    Uterus!? Jesus Christ, man, I think you're doing it wrong!
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  • huskyhooligan
    huskyhooligan Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 6,012 Swaye's Wigwam
    DerekJohnson said:

    huskyhooligan said:

    80s-90s Ave:

    Off the Wall
    Second Time Around
    Tower Records
    Arnolds
    Space Port

    Always lots of print shops, poster shops.

    Big 5 I don't know if it's there still but old timers tell me it was a Nordstrom at one poont.

    I loved going into Off the Wall
    It was one of the few places one could get a band tshirt. Door said 18 and over but started going late middle school years. There was a bus stop right in front and it had a big opening so people would squeeze in on rainy days.

    2nd Time around was great because of the posters and cheap cd's and records. Near the end of the posters is where they had all the nude posters and a stack of old noody magazines I'd thumb through. Guy behind the counter never said a word.

    Arnolds closed before my Ave ventures but my older brother has stories. Sir Mix A Lot has talked about it in interviews, and I believe the line in one of his SWASS songs is about messing with kids at Arnolds on the Ave, driving volvos or volkswagens.

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