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Bucket Brigade!

Jordan Jordan January 24, 2009 1 Comment

Most folks know by now that the venerable Tweedy and Popp, Seattle’s oldest hardware store, founded in 1920, is moving across the street and down the block to Wallingford Center. But listen to what we just heard from Jennifer:

I just found out today that they are planning a merchandise move where they get a huge line of people from the old store to the new and they will literally be moving their inventory from person to person until it is all moved. I don’t know the specifics, but it sounds like a fun event…maybe just a fun spectacle?

Well, I just about squealed with glee when I heard that. A bucket brigade down 45th St! Get outta town! Hitch a cart to Ol’ Paint and dig out my best overalls, we’re gonna have ourselves a old fashioned bucket brigade! Men-folk and women-folk working side-by-side for the common good, sticky faced children chasing each other between legs (‘don’t choke on that there lollipop, boy!’), and some sorta ruckus emanating from Changes and Murphy’s. Hoooey! Gonna be like old times and I ain’t gonna miss it fer nothin’!

Wallyhood intends to pay a visit to establishment of Mr. Tweedy and Mr. Popp on the morrow and inquire as to the veracity of this story and the specifics. You can count on us to report our findings faithfully.

Yeehaaaw!

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1 Comment

  1. Erma
    January 27, 2009 at 11:40 pm

    In 1999 there was a fire brigade to move Wide World Books and Maps from their old location next to Kuan Yin Teahouse to their current location on Wallingford. Maybe this is a once-a-decade tradition in our neighborhood.

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