What Lies Within

[foxfire]

Mam'selle Evie Takahashi and I merrily lunched upon burgers and Stella Artois at Julia's on Broadway this noonday. We took seats by an enormous plate glass window that overlooks Seattle's most bohemian of its many bohemian boulevards, contentedly watching an endless promenade of drag queens, starving artists, black-clad anarchists both young and

Comments

[photosexual]

I read the history as only you can tell it, and I both love and hate to think of it. Pre-coffee/grunge/software Seattle was a crazy fun little town, with Boeing the reason that anyone thought to move here back when careers and employers were kept for a decade or few. And I know if I'd gotten a bit more adventurous and out of the house to see the city I grew up just north of, as far back as the 80's when I was a young adult, I would have loved it. But I would have hated it now for what it has become. Much like Ballard did in a matter of a year or two. Facelift for the 'hood, and Old Ballard is GONE. Maybe the line "sadder still to watch it die than never to have known it" applies here. I can enjoy what Seattle used to be, but twice as glad I missed some of it going under, only to be discovered largely by me in the late 90's. And we know how that turned out...