What's the one thing you miss most about living in Seattle?
Personally, there's not much I miss about Seattle life. But damn do I miss the used bins in the record shops.
I made my first trip back town since the summer of 2020 for a quick row peter puffer reunion and started at Easy Street in West Seattle (shout to @CFetters_Nacho_Lover ) for breakfast and a bloody mary, then onto to Silver Platters SODO, and finally Jive Time and Daybreak in Fremont. Bought about dozen used LPs altogether, all collectible and in great shape.
It will be depressing to venture back into Ranch (Smith Rock) Records in Downtown Bend. They rarely get good used records. I suspect all these old logging camp, Ducktards just never amassed much in the way of good vinyl collections back in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
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Everything Seattle 80’s. Everything.
Sonics, Kingdome, Pioneer Square, UDistruct. Fucking everywhere was awesome and aside from a little gang problem in the CD, safe as hell. Traffic wasn’t shitty yet. Housing still within reach. Incredible time.
Nothing Seattle 21st century. Miss fucking nothing. Haven’t been for about six years and don’t intend to go back. SEA on connectors and that’s it. -
Well I still have family there so I have my hot spots... Kells, Canlis, lots of restaurants and bars... haven't been there in 2 1/2 years though and my son is now telling me that downtown is dangerous at night and he is not sure I should be staying at the high level skyline hotels downtown that I normally frequent... [that says something, he is 6'3 and 225 lbs of solid weightlifting muscle]
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When I was ghost writing a book for Herb Mead, he had all these stories about Canlis in the 60s and 70s and Sinatra tipping the valet guy $500, etc. I still haven't been to that restaurant.TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:Well I still have family there so I have my hot spots... Kells, Canlis, lots of restaurants and bars... haven't been there in 2 1/2 years though and my son is now telling me that downtown is dangerous at night and he is not sure I should be staying at the high level skyline hotels downtown that I normally frequent... [that says something, he is 6'3 and 225 lbs of solid weightlifting muscle]
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My stepsister has lived in Arizona for about 15 years. She was bringing her new boyfriend to Seattle and they were going to stay downtown. I asked her if she was fucking crazy, do you have any idea what has happened? She moved her reservation to Redmond.TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:Well I still have family there so I have my hot spots... Kells, Canlis, lots of restaurants and bars... haven't been there in 2 1/2 years though and my son is now telling me that downtown is dangerous at night and he is not sure I should be staying at the high level skyline hotels downtown that I normally frequent... [that says something, he is 6'3 and 225 lbs of solid weightlifting muscle]
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(You forgot the serial killers of the 80s along with CD gangs.)PurpleThrobber said:Everything Seattle 80’s. Everything.
Sonics, Kingdome, Pioneer Square, UDistruct. Fucking everywhere was awesome and aside from a little gang problem in the CD, safe as hell. Traffic wasn’t shitty yet. Housing still within reach. Incredible time.
Nothing Seattle 21st century. Miss fucking nothing. Haven’t been for about six years and don’t intend to go back. SEA on connectors and that’s it.
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@DerekJohnson
So when i was a kid, Peter Canlis was among the top restaurateurs of the period, and Canlis, Rosellini’s Four-10 and the Other Place, Trader Vic's, The Windjammer, etc were the best places to eat in town.
As the town grew the restaurant scene exploded as downtown became a vibrant environment. My sister's high school boyfriend was Tony Canlis so we were quite familiar with the family and knew of them anyway because we regularly went to the restaurant as a family. Over the years a lot of family event dinners [weddings, Wakes and family social occasions] were held at Canlis.
The sizzle and pop of Canlis throughout all of their history was always their ability to create a quietly elegant atmosphere with superb service, the highest quality steak, Caesar salad and drinks in town, combined with a cool nighttime view of the water.
This is now the 3rd generation of ownership... after Peter died, Tony and his brother Chris took over the company, eventually Chris wound up being the owner operator, and now Chris's kids are operating the business.. I haven't been there in a while but the place has remained timeless over the last several generations so I doubt that much has changed. -
I miss a lot of old Seattle of the 80's - 90's listed above...going to Pioneer Square, clubs and such, but since moving I really miss the restaurants (and the variety of them), and the little hole-in-the-wall bars and mom-and-pop cafe's we found over the years. ATBS, most of those places I would probably not venture into in 2022-era Seattle. Greenwood / Freelard was starting to turn quickly when we decided to vacate...We hung at Green Lake a lot, and now it's dead...
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Green Lake today...Fishpo31 said:I miss a lot of old Seattle of the 80's - 90's listed above...going to Pioneer Square, clubs and such, but since moving I really miss the restaurants (and the variety of them), and the little hole-in-the-wall bars and mom-and-pop cafe's we found over the years. ATBS, most of those places I would probably not venture into in 2022-era Seattle. Greenwood / Freelard was starting to turn quickly when we decided to vacate...We hung at Green Lake a lot, and now it's dead...
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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. -
I only ever lived in the U District. There isn't much there to miss. Taking shrooms amd walking around campus and the nicer residential streets on warm spring days when girls wear sun dresses. Good, cheap food of all flavors, record shops, decent bars and even live music all within walking distance.
Not much else.
