I saw this PS4 and some other items on a wall next to the alley on the north side of Genesee just east of 44th. Thought it might be stolen and abandoned.
Thanks to Erin for the video! We’ve been telling you for a few days about the parking restrictions today along part of Harbor/Alki Avenues, attributed to a production company with a lot of car commercials among its credits. The neighbor who originally tipped us said a Toyota logo was seen during some advance work, and indeed, that’s what it seems to be – we screengrabbed Erin’s video, tried an online image search, and it came back as the Toyota b74X electric SUV. The parking restrictions also are supposed to be in effect Monday (October 6), but not tomorrow.
Thanks for the tip! The 1301 Second Avenue building downtown has arranged its office lights into the shape of a trident tonight, wishing the Mariners the best of luck on the eve of their first American League Division Series game against Detroit, 5:38 pm tomorrow.
P.S. Watching the game with sound up at your venue? Let us know so we can include in our daily event list!
Three weeks ago, a U.S. Postal Service spokesperson told us the long-gone West Seattle Junction Post Office drive-up/ride-up/walk-up mailbox was finally close to being replaced. And now, it has been; thanks to Lauren for the tip and photo (thanks also to Gregg, who sent word of it too). The Junction mailbox’s predecessor was stolen more than a year and a half ago. Crime also took out the Westwood Village Post Office outdoor mailbox, damaged in what was described as a break-in earlier this month (we haven’t been to WWV today but will go by this evening to see if that box reappeared too).
2:42 PM: Thanks for the tips. Police have received calls this past hour about two masked men in The Junction, photographing people and businesses. Officers checked them out in the vicinity of the Post Office and Eagles aerie; they told dispatch the men weren’t doing anything illegal (permission is not required to photograph anyone or anything visible from a public space like a sidewalk or street). What some who’ve seen them report to be unsettling is their outfits (here’s one photo texted to us), reminiscent of what plainclothes ICE agents have been photographed wearing, but one report we’ve received say the men identified themselves as “independent media.” They were also described as “belligerent.”
2:55 PM: Someone just called this into 911 again, and officers told dispatch they’d made contact earlier and “there’s nothing we can do.”
3:31 PM: As noted in comments, this is apparently a practice called 1st Amendment Auditing, carried out by provocateurs. It would explain why we thought we heard officers tell dispatch the men were “auditors.”
A reader texted us over the weekend to say, “Looks like Nucor is getting a dark green paint job. Looks great!” No photo, so we went over to have a look late today. Our photo shows the south side of the steel-recycling mill, along SW Andover, visible from West Seattle Health Club. We asked a spokesperson for Nucor (which is a WSB sponsor) about the repainting – here’s what we heard back:
We are in the midst of painting the buildings at our local mill this summer and anticipate doing an additional round of painting next year, including building roofs. This investment is part of our overall work to maintain our mill responsibly for our teammates and our neighbors. We chose green to help reflect the character of our neighborhood. The last time the mill was painted was about a decade ago and it was time for a fresh coat. We look forward to making additional investments at the mill, like the removal of the old, decommissioned smokestacks and the current painting project.
We reported on the smokestack removal back in May.
P.S. The repainting’s not done yet, so you can still see the previous beige-ish color on part of the building.
9:43 AM: Thanks to Al for the photo and report – he says that toppled tree is affecting the vicinity of the US Bank branch in The Junction (42nd and Edmunds) right now.
12:20 PM: Just got that photo from another reader, noting that the situation was being handled as of about an hour ago.
Thanks to Steven Rice for the photo of the two fighter jets that flew over north West Seattle about an hour ago – F/A-18s as identified by the photographer, a texter, and image search. While we haven’t been able to find confirmation of this, it seemed likely to have been a Mariners flyover, since their game started just after 1 pm. (Anyone reading this at the ballpark who can confirm?)
I found this two bags (near 42nd/Holly). One includes at a Dell laptop computer and what appears to be a folder containing school work from WSHS.
If you know who these bags belong to, contact us – westseattleblog@gmail.com – and we’ll connect you with the finder, who has taken them for safekeeping.
1:22 PM: Just a note in case you’re hearing the cannon fire: The Seafair Pirates, aboard the landing craft Prudhoe Bay again this year, are on their way to storm Alki Beach. Updates to come.
1:38 PM: The Pirates have arrived. Lots of cannon fire preceded. We’re told they’ll seize the key to the city from a deputy mayor.
2:06 PM: Still awaiting that.
2:49 PM: All the antics and ceremony aboard Moby Duck – with Queen Alcyone (former SPD Chief Carmen Best), King Neptune (former TV news anchor Eric Johnson), and Deputy Mayor Greg Wong – has concluded. Separate report later with pics and video! (Update: See all that here.)
It’s not quite lemonade-stand weather. So this enterprising trio has set up a Pokémon-card stand instead! One participant’s parent sent us the photo, noting you can find them until 3 or so by the 38th SW/SW Barton standpipe in Upper Fauntleroy.
Sent by Lucia, who also has checked with nearby residents to be sure this isn’t theirs:
Near the corner of 36th SW and Southwest Findlay. A large plastic toolbox like one that would be in a pick up truck bed. Large gas, canisters and other debris. It is stashed between two cars that would not have had the toolbox in them.
11:15 AM: Several questions so far this morning about a film crew set up on the SW Barton side of Fauntleroy Park. We asked the Fauntleroy Watershed Council if they had any notification, since this is salmon-release season and they routinely have volunteers in the park as well as dozens of visiting students. They hadn’t been notified in advance but did some investigating for us and volunteer John learned, “They’re shooting stills for Kia car company that will be used in a variety of marketing material. They will be there all day.”
12:29 PM: Added photos. As volunteer John added in a followup email, “They’re taking shots of a new Kia vehicle nestled under a cedar.”
A box of someone’s family Christmas ornaments / decorations was found in the alley behind my house near Admiral Safeway this morning. It looks like it was stolen and dumped. Could you post a photo of this box to see if I might connect it to the owner?
Thanks to West Seattle photographer Steven Rice for these images of sightings today:
Above, he says, that’s “Vietnam’s CB-8022 (formerly USCGC Mellon) as viewed from the north end of West Seattle around 11:30 this morning.” (A smaller US Coast Guard vessel is in the photo too.) Mellon was decommissioned by the USCG five years ago; at the time, it was to be transferred to Bahrain. It is reported to have been acquired by Vietnam in 2023.
Steven also sent this montage of “four shots taken around 12:30 from the north end of West Seattle today. This is the third time I’ve heard and/or seen it since April 4th. Apparently it’s an F-15SA used for various types of training exercises.”
We’re still researching, but F-15SA is reported to be a Boeing-built fighter jet that flies for Saudi Arabia.
(Photo by James Tilley, from 2023 Seahawks-gameday flyover by Growlers from Whidbey)
The Mariners‘ season starts tomorrow, with an evening game vs. Oakland at T-Mobile Park. And the Mariners’ media memo for the homestand reveals the 7:10 pm game will be preceded by a flyover. Since that often means the participating aircraft are sighted over West Seattle in advance, we asked M’s spokesperson Adam Gersch for specifics:”U.S. Navy, flying a pair of EA-18G fighter jets in a south-to-north flight pattern.” Those are also known as Growlers, many of which are based at NAS Whidbey Island.
No hints at the owner’s ID, but she spotted this while passing by at 35th/Holden (see Station 37 in the background) and propped it up against a utility pole. She says the contents include medicine, sunscreen, personal-care items but “seems definitely stolen and dumped.” (When items seem just plain lost, this is our board for those.)
If you’ve been in The Junction today, you might have seen the workers hanging lights in trees. As reported here recently, the West Seattle Junction Association is expanding its tree lighting, and this is phase 2, along California SW between Oregon and Genesee. Phase 1 of the expansion added lights to trees along SW Alaska.
It wouldn’t be St. Patrick’s Day in West Seattle if we didn’t get a chance to visit 41st Avenue SW north of Admiral Way to check whether the mysterious green stripe has been refreshed. Yes, it has, and our photo above shows the proof. Who does this? Still a mystery … but a commenter in the ’00s said it dates back to the ’70s! (The Seattle Irish Week celebration downtown includes a green street stripe too, but that’s done a bit more ceremoniously.)
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