What's the one thing you miss most about living in Seattle?
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The Throbber misses Ivar's at SEA. For fuck's sake, that airport is shit to begin with and they got rid of the only decent food in the place.
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Seattle has to have the worst possible geography to be a bicycle commuter city. It's never going to be an effective way for most folks to commute. I was always astonished with the risks parents would take taking their kids on the back of their bikes to school on busy ass arterials with no bike line.TurdBomber said:
Smith & Wessons at the Doghouse at 6 a.m. after an all-nighter in Belltown.YellowSnow said:
But what’s something positive that you miss?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.
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.
White Wakanda on the other hand is a marvelously bike friendly layout, although I lay off the country roads with minimal shoulders myself. I like to the give the hicks their space as they were here first. -
My shoe shine guysm were the folks in the basement of the Nordstrom flagship store. I used to got there like once a week on my lunch break. I miss that a lot.MikeDamone said:I remember my Seattle phase
Robin and Maynard - Roy OtisEl_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
The Blade
Spoonman at Pikes Place
UW football
Lunch at The Met
The shoe shine guy on 1st and Columbia -
Old Ballard: drunk Norwegian fishermen
New Ballard: high (or strung out), mentally unstable homeless people
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Ya sure..ya betcha.Fishpo31 said:Old Ballard: drunk Norwegian fishermen
New Ballard: high (or strung out), mentally unstable homeless people
I miss drunk-fighter Ballard…
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I used to work at the Bananas Tavern - across from the Fremont Tavern and the Toohigh Tavern - working the door I let many a drunk fisherman in for free only to be paid back in kind or triple kind a few days later.Fishpo31 said:Old Ballard: drunk Norwegian fishermen
New Ballard: high (or strung out), mentally unstable homeless people
I miss drunk-fighter Ballard…
Miss the good tavern days through out Seattle -
I miss the authentic ethnic food. Of all kinds. You leave the city and that shit gets harder to find.
I enjoyed a lot about going to UW and being in Seattle at the end of the 80's, but I don't miss most of it. The traffic was fucked even then. -
Mt. Washington Drive to Tumalo Junction & back to Broken Top was always good.YellowSnow said:
Seattle has to have the worst possible geography to be a bicycle commuter city. It's never going to be an effective way for most folks to commute. I was always astonished with the risks parents would take taking their kids on the back of their bikes to school on busy ass arterials with no bike line.TurdBomber said:
Smith & Wessons at the Doghouse at 6 a.m. after an all-nighter in Belltown.YellowSnow said:
But what’s something positive that you miss?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.
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.
White Wakanda on the other hand is a marvelously bike friendly layout, although I lay off the country roads with minimal shoulders myself. I like to the give the hicks their space as they were here first. -
Yep, nice views no doubt. Mt Washington Drive has decent shoulders.TurdBomber said:
Mt. Washington Drive to Tumalo Junction & back to Broken Top was always good.YellowSnow said:
Seattle has to have the worst possible geography to be a bicycle commuter city. It's never going to be an effective way for most folks to commute. I was always astonished with the risks parents would take taking their kids on the back of their bikes to school on busy ass arterials with no bike line.TurdBomber said:
Smith & Wessons at the Doghouse at 6 a.m. after an all-nighter in Belltown.YellowSnow said:
But what’s something positive that you miss?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.
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.
White Wakanda on the other hand is a marvelously bike friendly layout, although I lay off the country roads with minimal shoulders myself. I like to the give the hicks their space as they were here first. -
I normally agree with everything you say, but on this one point we differ. Ballard is better than it has ever been. There are rows of great fucking restaurants there, and people have invested in their homes and there are far fewer run-down little craftsman style places than there once was. I mostly didn't like Ballard back in the day, but I do now.Fishpo31 said:Old Ballard: drunk Norwegian fishermen
New Ballard: high (or strung out), mentally unstable homeless people
I miss drunk-fighter Ballard…
As for Yella's original question, I don't miss anything because I'm still here. We still have the restaurants, we still have Dicks (lolz), the U-district has always been a shit hole, or at least the Ave, and still is.
The only think I really miss is not having to see tent cities every fucking place I look. I do miss the absence of that, for sure.
