Pibal
HunterG asks: “What would we call ourselves if not West Seattle?”
Well, why not select a name representative of a mix of us, our history, a nod to romance, and our local topography?
Since we may well be at the end of our exasperated rope with Seattle’s inattentiveness, you could say that we are at the endolyne. Home of that streetcar line’s last stop is an area first named Fauntleroy by George Davidson in 1857. It turns out that that was the same year that Alki landowner Charles Terry threw in the towel and swapped his land with Doc Maynard’s Pioneer Square holdings. Thus was marked the first official abandonment of our sacred place by Seattleites.
And don’t we love our home here as much as George Davidson loved Elinor Fauntleroy of Indiana? And isn’t therefore that name connected in time to the first Alki Exodus? And doesn’t the state transportation system even provide us a waterborne means to exit our home from that same neighborhood without having to transit Seattle proper?
And yet we own the highest ridgeline in the incorporated area. One would think those with such commanding views would be cherished and listened to.
And so, it is clear what we must call ourselves: Fauntcrest!
Forgotten
Abandoned
Underserved
Neighborhoods of
Terrific
Citizens
Refusing to
Endorse
Seattle’s
Thoughtlessness
Where do I sign???