Today on Boing Boing they featured the demolition of a 100-year old house in Seattle that was a block away from where we used to live.
Demolition of three houses for light rail station on Broadway from Brad Kevelin on Vimeo.
We called the corner of Broadway and East Denny Way home for two years, living above a Kinko’s and Mongolian restaurant (although, I’ve been told the building might not be there any longer.) Lots of crazy stories from that place, including the time I was threatened by a barely five-foot tall elderly homeless man and the time a crazy, almost certainly high, homeless dude jumped out of the public bathroom with boxing gloves on… good times!
Anyway, I thought I’d share the video to show a little bit of where we used to live. Man, this made me miss Seattle even more today! I’ll be heading back for a conference in early June, so I am interested to see how much Seattle has changed over the last four or five years.
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Wow, its so sad, but also I have to admit the music kinda makes me laugh. It is a bit on the over dramatic side! Finally light rail went through! Took almost a decade right?
I totally remember that framing shop- I think it was almost across from the community college, if you walk down toward Taco Del Mar or La Puerta. So many good memories from that area. I loved walking to the restaurants, REI, the record store, to shows and grocery store. At the same time there was so many freakish and amazing things that happened to us there that I’ll never forget. We have a lot of good laughs that’s for sure- homeless dudes singing christmas carols on roller skates and asking me which reindeer was my favorite, people jumping off the building next door into our dumpster, walking up our stoop to find fresh blood on the landing only to step over it to get in the door (!!), finding broken heroine pipes in the dryer, you throwing apples at dudes in the parking lot for leaf blowing in the summer at 3am, the awesome pride parades from our window, watching fireworks over the sound from our place too, impromptu marching bands in the middle of the night…. I could go on and on. The best part about it is that although the number of crazy things we ran into was high, I never never felt scared or threatened there. I always felt safe and wondered what was around the next literal and figurative corner.
Ahh Seattle. You are so amazing, yet so entertaining at the same time. I miss you. The good thing is that I bet they really debated and debated with lots of protests and public forums and letter writing campaigns and newspaper editorials and demonstrations before they tore down those houses. If I appreciate anything about Seattlites, its that they know how to exercise their democratic voice and often use it!