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 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)
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
Old Ballard: drunk Norwegian fishermen New Ballard: high (or strung out), mentally unstable homeless people
I miss drunk-fighter Ballard…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mt. Washington Drive to Tumalo Junction & back to Broken Top was always good.
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.
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.
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.
Mt. Washington Drive to Tumalo Junction & back to Broken Top was always good.
Yep, nice views no doubt. Mt Washington Drive has decent shoulders.
Old Ballard: drunk Norwegian fishermen New Ballard: high (or strung out), mentally unstable homeless people
I miss drunk-fighter Ballard…
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.
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.
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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
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)
Seeing people everywhere wearing UW apparel
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.
If this doesn't convince you how fucking stupid Seattle voters actually are, nothing will.
The Blade
Spoonman at Pikes Place
UW football
Lunch at The Met
The shoe shine guy on 1st and Columbia
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.
New Ballard: high (or strung out), mentally unstable homeless people
I miss drunk-fighter Ballard…
Miss the good tavern days through out Seattle
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.
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.