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December 3, 2016 at 8:35 am #867029
JoBParticipantthat a post on the forum will cause readers to reference a Tom Waits song
I love living where people not only know who Tom Waits is.. but are familiar with his workI also love living where a question about the age of a local shopping mall inspires so many posts about the history of the area along with the memories that history generates…
what West Seattle quirk brightens your day?
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December 3, 2016 at 12:28 pm #867059
BonnieParticipantI too like the ‘remember when’. Remember when JC Penneys was in the Junction. Remember when Caper’s was Lee’s Beauty School. Remember when we had Shafrons (in fact, I said that one just today to my husband who is looking for something to wear to a party and we have nowhere close to go)
December 3, 2016 at 2:25 pm #867066
sbreParticipant…that I don’t need to leave the peninsula for ANYHING other than sitting in my favorite seat in Seattle; Section 342, row 1, seat 7 at Safeco Field!
December 3, 2016 at 4:04 pm #867071
waynsterParticipantBonnie remember we also had a wigwam a kress’s and a sporting goods store the name which slips my old mind… I remember the good old days mostly the star every holiday on Bethlehem steel mills water tower going to my grandparents house on pigeon peak looking out at the waterfront from the dead end getting yelled to stay out of the oil when they would spay it on to keep dust down during the summer…. the rides at west seattle stadium during hiyu playing on the west seattle freeway and riding bikes on it before it open to cars hearing the air raid sirens go off every Wednesday at noon..being the first 1st graders at the new fairmount park school before moving then walking to Jefferson, Madison and west seattle high… my great grandparents grandparents my great aunt and uncle my mom and all her sisters and brothers and all 5 of us lived here most are in forest lawn now and west seattle has changed is it better? maybe for some…..
December 4, 2016 at 6:46 am #867127
JoBParticipantI love that i could do an informal holiday lights tour within a 5 block radius of where i live that included lights in the tops of trees on what looked to be 3 separate private homes.. and i live on the “wrong” side of 35th ;-)
i can see a lot of after sunset detours in my future….
December 4, 2016 at 7:37 am #867139
ws2ParticipantDecember 4, 2016 at 8:24 am #867150
2 Much WhineParticipantI love that we live in a place where we can have a 7’4″ drag queen lighting our Christmas tree and nobody gives a rip or even thinks it is worthy of a comment. I could be wrong but somehow I just don’t think that would fly in a city considered “red.”
December 4, 2016 at 5:47 pm #867222
SunuvaParticipantI love that we’re not between two freeways as most of the rest of the Greater Seattle region is. Everywhere else I’ve lived in Seattle felt too busy and you were always between major freeways and everybody was trying to get to them and get somewhere. Once you are here, you’re here. For the most part, nobody is rushing through our neighborhoods just trying to get somewhere else.
December 5, 2016 at 9:35 am #867289
JoBParticipant2 Much Whine
“nobody” did comment but since it was nobody “we” put them in their place
that’s what i love about West SeattleDecember 5, 2016 at 1:24 pm #867327
redblackParticipantlike sbre said, proximity to the core – and all of seattle’s variegated neighborhoods. yet i also like the separation provided by the duwamish corridor and its industries. as stated above, i don’t have to leave if i don’t want to. (except to go to my stupid job…) from underwear to tires, we have it all.
i like that we have the best news and talk resource available in the city, and on the internet. hands down. and no intrusive, obnoxious advertising! ahh. tasteful, democratic, free market tile ads: if i need you, i’ll find you.
i like that, when people here are in distress and ask for help, the community responds to despair with kindness.
i like the hodge-podge of quirky architecture spattered across the peninsula’s hills… even some of the new stuff, but especially the mid-centuries and craftsmen.
i love the views.
i love our occasional localized banana belt.
and i like our convergence-zone “snow days.”
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