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What's the one thing you miss most about living in Seattle?

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  • Fire_Marshall_Bill
    Fire_Marshall_Bill Member Posts: 26,295 Standard Supporter
    Summers there are awesome...of course the last tim I was there, it hit 100 fucking degrees, but for the most part
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    I remember my Seattle phase
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,890 Founders Club
    MikeDamone said:

    I remember my Seattle phase

    I’ve had 3 distinct Seattle phases. Doubt there will be a 4th. We’ve got irreconcilable differences though now.
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  • LebamDawg
    LebamDawg Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 8,855 Swaye's Wigwam
    I miss the FREE hydroplane races, camping over night on the shores of LW before the races.
    Shooting pool at The 211 on iirc Pine (wasn't good nuff to play snooker)
    Being an old fart - Concerts at Eagle's Auditorium
    Wrestling at the Masonic Temple on Capital Hill
    Free concerts at Volunteer Park, Golden Gardens of Seward Park (rare)
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,217 Founders Club
    El_K said:

    Too many things I miss about "old" Seattle
    The Mercer Arena
    RCKCNDY
    The Fun Forest
    The Coliseum
    The seats in the Coliseum/Key Arena/Climate Pledge Arena. those red velour seats!
    The Kingdome
    The Lusty Lady
    Free busses downtown
    Building that were landmarks. The Natural gas building. The spice building. The PI Building
    The strip clubs
    Jimi Hendrix' old grave site
    Tower Records off Mercer
    the radio stations
    90.5 KCMU.
    The Ave in the 80s-90s
    The theater chain that showed arty fartsy films/ The Guild, The Varsity, Seven Gables
    The Viaduct
    the waterfront
    520 with no tolls
    When Seafair was a party
    Chinatown and none of this PC International District
    Seahawks original colors
    Pioneer Square
    Tuba Man
    Frederick & Nelson
    the Azteca on Eastlake
    The Blob
    Nordstrom with the computer font times and the service you would get then
    The Grit. some graffiti, a few homeless, a few drunks. Not over run like it is now


    If you had to pinpoint it to one thing that was the tipping point to new Seattle, for me it would be when Vulcan or whoever bought up those small properties in south Lake Union and just developed the shit out of SLU and Mercer St

    I guess you could do this about any city

    Great list
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  • DerekJohnson
    DerekJohnson Administrator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 70,217 Founders Club
    Fourth of Jul-Ivar's parties at Gas Works
    Seeing people everywhere wearing UW apparel
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  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,056 Standard Supporter
    YellowSnow said:

    TurdBomber said:

    Seattle was fucking great until about 2000 and when the population was under 700k.

    All the new stick skinny tech fags and their 300lb girlfriends have ballooned the population to over 800k and they all suck, have no character, no sense of humor, are fully loaded with social justice bullshit, and live through their fucking phones.

    The speeding meteor of death cannot come fast enough for this dirty sphincter city.

    But what’s something positive that you miss?
    Smith & Wessons at the Doghouse at 6 a.m. after an all-nighter in Belltown.
    Driving without having to dodge retarded bicyclists who need special lines, lanes and lights, or else cannot function in traffic.
    Greenlake without homeless surrounding it and not seeing HEAPS OF TRASH FUCKING EVERYWHERE.
    FUN bars and GOOD restaurant food, vs. overpriced, mediocre "artisan" everything that sucks.
    Good service in bars and restaurants.
    Bar taps with a variety of craft beers instead of 20 different IPAs and one stout.

    For starters.
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  • TurdBomber
    TurdBomber Member Posts: 20,056 Standard Supporter
    El_K said:

    Too many things I miss about "old" Seattle

    If you had to pinpoint it to one thing that was the tipping point to new Seattle, for me it would be when Vulcan or whoever bought up those small properties in south Lake Union and just developed the shit out of SLU and Mercer St

    I guess you could do this about any city

    Paul Allen offered to donate ALL THAT LAND to the City for the Seattle Commons park, and the same Antifa-type assholes we see today opposed it and the proponents couldn't get the 60% they needed from the public to vote it in. So Allen said, "Fuck You Guysm, Then" and developed the fuck out of SLU, instead.

    If this doesn't convince you how fucking stupid Seattle voters actually are, nothing will.
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  • MikeDamone
    MikeDamone Member Posts: 37,781
    I remember my Seattle phase
    El_K said:

    Too many things I miss about "old" Seattle
    The Mercer Arena
    RCKCNDY
    The Fun Forest
    The Coliseum
    The seats in the Coliseum/Key Arena/Climate Pledge Arena. those red velour seats!
    The Kingdome
    The Lusty Lady
    Free busses downtown
    Building that were landmarks. The Natural gas building. The spice building. The PI Building
    The strip clubs
    Jimi Hendrix' old grave site
    Tower Records off Mercer
    the radio stations
    90.5 KCMU.
    The Ave in the 80s-90s
    The theater chain that showed arty fartsy films/ The Guild, The Varsity, Seven Gables
    The Viaduct
    the waterfront
    520 with no tolls
    When Seafair was a party
    Chinatown and none of this PC International District
    Seahawks original colors
    Pioneer Square
    Tuba Man
    Frederick & Nelson
    the Azteca on Eastlake
    The Blob
    Nordstrom with the computer font times and the service you would get then
    The Grit. some graffiti, a few homeless, a few drunks. Not over run like it is now


    If you had to pinpoint it to one thing that was the tipping point to new Seattle, for me it would be when Vulcan or whoever bought up those small properties in south Lake Union and just developed the shit out of SLU and Mercer St

    I guess you could do this about any city

    Robin and Maynard - Roy Otis
    The Blade
    Spoonman at Pikes Place
    UW football
    Lunch at The Met
    The shoe shine guy on 1st and Columbia



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