Two sunset photos, and a report from the “sister neighborhood”

Sunset photo #1 hot out of the inbox, courtesy of WSB reader “K” (thank you!!!!):

Sunset photo #2 is one we shot from Golden Gardens tonight (heresy! we left WS! attempt at relevant linkage, below the pic):

Driving through Ballard on the way to GG, we mused that Ballard and WS really should be “sister neighborhoods” — lots in common, from condoization, to maritime history/ongoing industry, to the status as home to the city’s two most popular public beaches, and much more. As if to put an exclamation point on that thought, a sign caught our eye in a Ballard business window, triggering a not-so-long-ago WS memory: Ben & Jerry’s on Market has just closed. While we’re not sure about that (ex-)shop’s current ownership, we do know the former B&J’s in The Junction was owned by the people who (at least at the time) owned the one in Ballard. One other interesting sighting during our brief invasion of the north end tonight: This lovely charter yacht ($70K/week!) moored at Shilshole.

ML September 3, 2007 (8:22 am)

You can get Gammel Dansk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammel_Dansk
at the Ballard liquor store but not WS–I imagine the Ballardians could hold that over our collective heads.

WSB September 3, 2007 (8:30 am)

Thank you for providing our educational moment of the day. Hadn’t heard of that before, even though we have some Scandinavian in the household (probably why Ballard is still our favorite non-WS neighborhood, even with so little of that influence left).

miws September 3, 2007 (5:02 pm)

Also for the busriders, whether full time, or if you just don’t want to drive at any given time, if you are on the Rte 22 line as I am, or the 21 or 56/57, you’re about a one hour, no-transfer ride to Ballard.

Most runs on these routes, alternate switching between 15’s & 18’s to Ballard. The 15 runs all the way out 15th NW, the 18 turns left onto Leary Wy after coming off the Ballard Bridge, and continues into Downtown Ballard, and on to Loyal Heights.

I occasinally will hop onto a 22/15, to go to the Wendy’s Burgers on 15th.

A word of caution, coming back to Wesseattle, on the 15/18 paper schedule, the times for the two routes alternate at each line on the same schedule grid, rather than having separate grids for each route on different pages as many others do. I remember, a few years ago, when METRO did the same thing with the 54/55. If I recall, it only lasted the one schedule cycle, and things were back to normal after the next shake-up.

Another thing to be careful of when getting ready to head back home after getting a belly full of Lutefisk, (or Wendy’s) is to double check that the bus you plan on catching “through-routes” to the Wesseattle route you desire. During the day, the busses on each route run about 20 minutes apart, and can run several minutes late due to traffic, etc. So, if you’re planning on catching a 15 that becomes a 22, for example, it doesn’t hurt to ask the driver if it becomes that route, or whichever Wesseattle route you want.

Mike

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