Every neighborhood has its iconic symbols. Fremont has the Troll and Waiting for the Interurban. Green Lake has, well, Green Lake. Ballard has condos.
Now, Wallingford has acquired its second iconic symbol. Yes, we have the Food Giant / WALLINGFORD sign that adorns the top of the QFC, and now we have…the Stephen Colbert Bus Stop.
Yep, in the dark of night (or perhaps during the day, we’re really not sure), Wallingford nationalists designated the bus stop on 45th Street in front of Wallingford Center as the “Colbert Bus Stop” by pasting the name to the front and taping proclamations to the side.
It has been proclaimed!
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I like the idea, but I doubt that the signs will remain very long on a bus stop. Perhaps something else could be proclaimed?
Yesssss!
I love this so much.
No disrespect to Stephen Colbert but this is too kitschy. this sounds like something that would happen in Fremont.
Huzzah!
“So it shall be written, so it shall be done.”
— Yul Brynnner, THE 10 COMMANDMENTS
PS And Fremont also has Lenin.
Much as I like the “Animal Storm” totem at the Wallingford Center, Fremont has a clear superiority in the statue race.
“We are NOT Fremont and have no desire to be LIKE Fremont!”
–Consensus of hundreds of neighbors who spoke up during the creation of the now-decade-old Wallingford Neighborhood Plan (http://www.seattle.gov/neighborhoods/npi/plans/wallingford/)
Burks@uw is gonna go rip that suckah down.
I propose Fremont/Wallingford peace talks @ the Buck
Yes. Though I prefer Jon Stewart.
Either that, or get his friend to shoot it down. Unless it has an expiration date on it.
Who the heck is Colbert?
I would rather we call the neighborhood – either Good Shepherd Hill.. or Not A Number Burough!
I looked this morning and didn’t see the sign. Is it gone? Rats!
Aw, thanks to the Cathy, who wanted to call it Not A Number Burrough. Hmm, maybe that’s next. Sorry to see the Colbert Bus Stop go. We thought it was great!
PS to @Burks, How about a compromise,? Why not leave some of the posters alone for a week? Just do a weekly sweep. There was a recent neighborhood survey in which a majority of people said they got news about the neighborhood from flyers/posters. This would give people a chance to get some information, and satisfy your need to keep the ‘Hood That Could clean.
In reply to Ffej’s comment: “Much as I like the “Animal Storm” totem at the Wallingford Center, Fremont has a clear superiority in the statue race.”
Perhaps not everyone realizes that “Animal Storm” was created by local resident/artist Ron Petty and is truly a “home grown” creation.
Per the SeattlePI.com at http://www.seattlepi.com/neighbors/wallingford/
“Everyone knows where Fremont is, but Wallingford didn’t want to take the chance,” jokes Ron Petty, a builder and artist who created Wallingford’s totem sculpture titled “Animal Storm.”
Petty’s stack of swirling bronze is anchored at the northwest corner of Wallingford Center, the 90-year-old school turned retail center. At the top of Petty’s 18-foot totem, watching the world go by with unblinking eyes, is an aluminum casting of his cat.
“Moma Cat” would often flop down in the middle of Petty’s drawing board as he sat working on sketches of the sculpture. “I told her if I got the commission I would put her on top,” Petty says.
Along with the bronzed impressions of 28 animals found in Wallingford is a dog with a peace sign in its collar — one of two items on the sculpture recalling Wallingford’s counterculture past.
Who is this burks person?
@Alex: See the Wallyhood Forums (e.g., “Support Clean Pole Wallingford” and “Not all of us are unarmed”): http://www.wallyhood.org/forums
@Cathy: http://www.colbertnation.com