The Ave
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Pics?RaceBannon said: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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RaceBannon said:
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
Shakey's on the waterfront is where my little league teams would hang out after a big game. Lots of shaved ice in the drinks, substantial matte finished plastic cups.
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Crack cocaine and LA gangs moving in definitely made things interesting, especially in the CD and Souf End. Knew people who were car jacked. Know a couple kids, north end at that, who are serving time. In 1989 kid I got into a fight with in the 4th grade in National Geographic the following year, was running drugs for a gang in the CD/Downtown. He was 9, maybe 10. There he is, crying as a police officer is talking to him. Multiple classmates in elementary, middle and high school represented gangs. Died down a lot though after freshman year after a lot of gang members were locked up, and gentrification started taking hold in the CD. RIP Collins Gold Exchange.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.
There were homeless people along the freeway's then too, but they didn't have tents or amass large amounts of trash. They were more hobo, riding rails. I remember under I-5 at Ravenna Blvd people sleeping up under the road, and a few RVs. Soup kitchens in the U District and other places in town have always been the draw. Mennonite church (in the old theater) in Lake City. Blessed Sacrament and a few others in the UDistrict. Heroin was probably a thing, but it seemed mostly alcoholism was biggest issue. Do they even sell Thunderbird or Boones anymore? @Swaye should know.
Watch shows / documentaries like Street Wise was a look at Seattle during the early 80's. Fact is America and society in general was much more open to letting kids run free, and taking less offense or sensationalizing some of that stuff. Now that shit would be front page news. -
Hell I probably saw you thereKingdome_Urinals said:RaceBannon said: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
Shakey's on the waterfront is where my little league teams would hang out after a big game. Lots of shaved ice in the drinks, substantial matte finished plastic cups. -
Seattle/WA State DOT should've left The Jungle under I-5 as it was. I think half the shit you see now was around 10 years ago but hidden under the freeway.
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Close to KIRO 7 and the old union halls. A protected enclave. The closer to the waterfront the worse it got. I'm talking ALL the way from the water up through the Pike Pine corridor. Desolate, predatory.RaceBannon said: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
Pioneer square and open air drug market, the smell of booze, cigarrette smoke, and soiled garments permeating every enclosed space.
South Lake Union, a bunch of disused wearhouses. Ballard, a mostly vacant mecca to boredom.
I guess you could say the Ave. compared favorably at one point. -
Swaye said:
Back then it was a cool place. Now it's a complete and utter shithole.YellowSnow said:
Unfortunately this appears to be too long to be my new signature.
so, new bored motto?
...actually, no - not that new.
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If you didn’t get asked to buy weed on the Ave in the 80s you didn’t go to the Ave. teriyaki and weed. Can’t remember the name of the main teriyaki place. But when you walked in they would ask chicken spesher? As for record stores in the 80s I was all about Cellophane Square. Tatsumi down by the Weinerschnitzel had great karaoke. Big Time Brewery was one of my favorite places. And in the early 90s there was a place that had a thing called the Rasta Punch. It was right on the corner $4. 4 kinds of rum or some shit. Years later Tom Leykis would have listener parties there. Good times.
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Since we're talking drug issues, it's important to point out that the last decade (and especially the last 5 years) have seen a massive spike in the drug problem. It's really nationwide, but especially amongst the homeless in major cities like Seattle. King County has a 0.3% homelessness rate but 11.3% of drug related overdose deaths are among those "unstably housed". Probably safe to correlate increased OD's to increased usage. There's a reason @PostGameOrangeSlices is getting his window smashed in.huskyhooligan said:
Crack cocaine and LA gangs moving in definitely made things interesting, especially in the CD and Souf End. Knew people who were car jacked. Know a couple kids, north end at that, who are serving time. In 1989 kid I got into a fight with in the 4th grade in National Geographic the following year, was running drugs for a gang in the CD/Downtown. He was 9, maybe 10. There he is, crying as a police officer is talking to him. Multiple classmates in elementary, middle and high school represented gangs. Died down a lot though after freshman year after a lot of gang members were locked up, and gentrification started taking hold in the CD. RIP Collins Gold Exchange.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.
There were homeless people along the freeway's then too, but they didn't have tents or amass large amounts of trash. They were more hobo, riding rails. I remember under I-5 at Ravenna Blvd people sleeping up under the road, and a few RVs. Soup kitchens in the U District and other places in town have always been the draw. Mennonite church (in the old theater) in Lake City. Blessed Sacrament and a few others in the UDistrict. Heroin was probably a thing, but it seemed mostly alcoholism was biggest issue. Do they even sell Thunderbird or Boones anymore? @Swaye should know.
Watch shows / documentaries like Street Wise was a look at Seattle during the early 80's. Fact is America and society in general was much more open to letting kids run free, and taking less offense or sensationalizing some of that stuff. Now that shit would be front page news.
This is OD deaths in the last decade in King County. Fenty and Meth are getting out of control.
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Real Change?
Thank you Sir
