At the height of the anti-outsider hysteria, many West Seattle businesses refused service to anyone they suspected of "not being from around here."
To warn off interlopers, the local upright citizens brigade embedded several medallions like the one below at strategic points around the city.
Most of these medallions were eventually removed by the Californians who bought the property they were on, but somehow this one was overlooked . . .
redblack
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am i correct in assuming that this is laid flat on the ground? it looks to me to be covered in rain water and reflecting the sky.
i would guess on the tarmac in front of Puget Sound Freight except that isn't exactly West Seattle...
or is it... i get confused about where places are.
r/b: You are correct. Just like me, this object can often be spotted sitting right out there on the sidewalk, soaked through with the rain and staring up at the sky. It's such a common spectacle, in fact, that West Seattle-ites hardly remark it any more.
A few people might pause to study me for a moment and cluck their tongues. Then they move on.
JoB: Though I occasionally wander off, when I return, I always find every place to be just where I left it.
jwws
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Part of the water meter cover?
Nope on the water meter. But who knows? If the economy gets much worse they just might start metering rainwater.
(So don't give them any ideas.)
DP...
i lose what i want to
what my mind misplaces
i find again
often to my chagrin:(
jwws
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Sewer/drain cover? Some sort of utility???
No. Not related to any kind of utility.
In other words: useless.
Note: Upwards of 99% of you have seen this thing.
But you simply ignored it.
Scofflaws and trespassers, the lot of you!
ToddinWestwood
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Jack Block Park?
miws
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Outside of Key Bank in the Junction, which at one time was Puget Sound Bank?
(The word "Bank" would be "photoshopped" out in this image).
Mike
redblack
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good catch, mike. in fact, i detect a little rubber stamp action where the word "bank" would be.
i was also wondering how a body of water could have tenants and customers.
Right on both counts, Mike!
Congratulations!
Puget Sound Bank was bought out by Key Bank several years ago. But I bet you didn't know that Key Bank and Puget Sound Bank were both once owned by Evinrude Motor Corporation.
miws
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"But I bet you didn't know that Key Bank and Puget Sound Bank were both once owned by Evinrude Motor Corporation."
Well, suddenly acquiring that little bit of information certainly stimulated my Johnson! :-D
Yeah, Key bought out PSB, off the top of my head, (don't even ask what a Bank was doing on my head) back around the early-mid '90's.
The WS Branch of Key migrated a block west, and the 4th & Union Branch Downtown migrated about 1/4-1/2 half block south from its location in the 1411 4th Av Building, where it had long resided, going back to the old Seattle Trust days.
Back around 1986-ish to 1987-ish, Puget Sound Bank became a major tenant of the originally named Washington Building, and the Building was renamed Puget Sound Plaza.
The Bank also took over the 4th & Union corner spot that had housed Rosellini's Other Place Restaurant, which was not able to renew their Lease, (they'd been there around 12 years or so at the time) due to the deal struck between PSB and the Building's Property Manager UNICO Properties. :-( (I had worked at the "OP" from Fall of '77 until almost Summer of '80).
The way I remember the approximate takeover timeline, is that for probably at least the last two years of my employment with the parking company, (which had their Seattle/PNW Regional Office in Puget Sound Plaza) that Branch of the Bank was where I deposited my paycheck, and I left that Company in June of '98.
(Note to self: Check on-line version of the AP Style Book, to see if building names are amongst what should be italicized, just as movie/book titles, and, (I think) business names should be. (Also check out whether it's permissible to use parentheses within already parenthetic text)).
Mike
redblack
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mike, building and business names don't have to be italicized. titles of books, newspapers, and movies do, though. in newspaper names, just the paper's name is italicized, not the city. (e.g. the seattle times.) album names italicized, song titles in quotes. tee vee show names in quotes, too.
edit: oh! and foreign words and phrases used in english are also italicized, like de facto. and chupacabra.
double parentheses? got me. but, hey, it's the intertoob, man. you can do what you like.
all this from a guy who doesn't like capital letters.
miws
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thanks, redblack!
(oh, and i believe, (although i'm no great authority), that the original internet protocol dictated lower case only.)
mike
SarahScoot
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Actually, if we're going the stickler route, AP style dictates that no titles are italicized. I am personally not a fan of the AP style. As a social sciences major (political science, psychology, and women's studies), I follow APA guidelines in my own writing. In APA style, one would italicize a newspaper or magazine name -- and the full title is italicized, e.g. The Seattle Times. I don't know of any style that says one should only italicize the "Times" part of that title, though in some situations it might be acceptable to refer to the paper only as the Times (I have a hard time thinking of an instance where this would make sense, as in most cases "The Times" refers to the New York version.
Additionally, I don't know of any style in which business names are italicized. They are simply treated as proper nouns, like the name of any person.
:-) /grammarian geek-out.
redblack
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i'll concede the newspaper city/title rule - although i learned it that way somewhere in my 17 years of education and at at least one college journalism gig. but AP style manual is mute on italics in names of books or other compositions. (see composition titles, associated press stylebook and libel manual, 1990 ed.) also note that AP is primarily for journalists, who deny the existence of the cambridge comma.
the chicago manual of style, 14th ed., says books, newspapers, magazines, movies, plays, operas, etc. should all be italicized; quotes around stories, poems, songs, etc.
SarahScoot
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"also note that AP is primarily for journalists, who deny the existence of the cambridge comma."
And that, redblack, is a big reason I'm not a fan of AP style. I am strongly in favor of the Oxford comma* in all applications. Lucky for me I've never been required to abide by AP style. I'd be so tempted to sneak in an "errant" comma, and I can't imagine not italicizing the names of publications.**
*Sorry to add a correction again, but I think you meant Oxford comma in your above comment (easy mistake, especially on a Sunday).
**I don't have an AP style guide, but a few webpages have lead me to believe that the preference is to not</i> italicize book, magazine, and newspaper titles. For example: "The AP Stylebook is easy: the AP doesn't use italics," (http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/how-to-use-italics.aspx).
redblack
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actually, the final comma before "and" or "or" is referred to as both an oxford comma and a cambridge comma, depending on where you learned english and who taught it.
SarahScoot
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Interesting! I've never heard it called a Cambridge comma before, but the Internet says it's true. We know the Internet is always right! :-D
Genesee Hill
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DP:
It is inherently unfair to post a photo that has been photo-shopped. For example, I could post a photo of Marilyn Monroe, photo-shop her head to look like Clint Eastwood, and ask: guess the star.
Not fair!
Oy oy oy!
Vaht a pain I'm gettin' mit all dese italixes n' shmitalixes.
All vaht I knowed before vuz dat dis Mike fellah knows already himself too much.
Den along comes a bunch vaht knows even more from vaht Mike does!
Genesee Hill:
Yes I can see your analogy precisely. But can you bother me about it another time perhaps? Right now I'm busy Photoshopping a picture of myself into Marilyn Monroe's willing arms.
Oh, Clint Eastwood is there in the picture too, of course.
Off to the side somewhere.
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