Monthly Archives: January 2009

The Seattle Times Bumper-to-Bumper column explains today how the bridge lanes are recovering from the snowpocalypse and why the lane widths are what they are:

“The recent snowstorms [in December] resulted in the accelerated deterioration of the lane markings due to the combination of plowing, sanding, tire chains and inclement weather,” answered Eric Widstrand, the Seattle Transportation Department’s traffic-operations manager.

“We were aware of the lane-marking conditions on the Aurora Avenue Bridge. In fact, we repainted the lane markings beginning on Jan. 14 while we had the warm, dry weather required for this work,” Widstrand said.

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The Aurora Bridge…has …

We previously reported that a bucket brigade was in the offing to spirit Tweedy and Popp from the north side of 45th Street (where it has lived since 1960) to its new home-to-be in Wallingford Center. Intrigued by the idea and eager to play cub reporter, we dropped in on the dusty old hardware store Saturday afternoon to get the poop. [Ed. Note: cub reporters are generally discouraged from using the term “poop” to describe hard bitten investigative journalism.]

We were delighted to learn that it’s true, there is a plan afoot to pass some materials hand-to-hand from the old …

Bottleworks on 45th features beer tastings every Monday from 5 pm – 7 pm for a nominal $1 fee (it’s illegal to give away beer in Washington State). Tonight’s tasting features brews from the Victory Brewery. Sez the Bottleworks blog:

We aren’t 100% on the full beer lineup but expect to see their Hop Devil, Prima Pils, Golden Monkey, and Storm King Stout. Other may include Moonglow Weizenbock, Hop Wallop, Baltic Thunder, Old Horizontal (likely), V-12, and V-Saison.

Wallyhood can’t shake the feeling that we went to shul with a girl named Moonglow Weizenbock.

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Shalom House, run by the Seattle Association for Jews with Disabilities and providing assisted living to adults with cognitive disabilities, has closed its home at the corner of Latona and 42nd Street, which is now for sale ($720k, contact Heidi at Windermere). Wallyhood got its first peek at the now empty interior today, and found it spacious and in good repair, although somewhat institutional in layout and decor.

Best wishes to the residents, at least one of whom was a well-known neighborhood fixture. We’ve sent an e-mail to the SAJD asking for information on the closure. We’ll let you know.…

The rolling hills of Gasworks, the sylvan cloister of the Good Shepherd Center, the bustling mercantile hub of 45th Street, the quiet lanes of Tangletown…is there a neighborhood anywhere filled with such variety and beauty as Wallingford? I think not!

To prove it, Wallyhood is sponsoring a Wallingford photography contest. The rules are simple. The winning photo must be:

Taken in Wallingford (see Walkscore’s map if in doubt) Of something in Wallingford (i.e., no photos of the Cascades as viewed from…) Taken from a publicly accessible space (i.e., no photos taken in your in-home studio) Taken between January 26, 2009…

Wallyhood totally blew it. Several weeks ago, Gene e-mailed us to let us know that the city was holding an open informational session on Saturday, January 31st to let people know how they could go about painting their intersection the way the intersection of 48th and Burke is painted (below), including information on permitting and possible funding sources.

Well, we thought we’d be clever and wait until shortly before the informational session itself to let you know, so it would be fresh in your mind. OK, maybe we didn’t quite trust you to remember if we told you several weeks …

The EWHA clean-up, previously advertised on these pages, was held today and proved an unqualified success. Fifteen Wallingford residents reported for duty, including a number of new faces lured in through the blog. Based on our burgeoning numbers, Hoyt and Scott made the bold and daring decision to expand our officially adopted area to include areas of Thackeray and 5th Ave, a geography previously considered unachievable.

Wallyhood’s own assigned territory was Latona between 45th and 42nd, so if you see garbage along that route, that’s our personal badge of shame.

Our Gettysburg, though, was fought at the bus stop area …