Monthly Archives: February 2010

Lincoln High Drag Lynx

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Eagle-eyed Wallyhood tipster Andrew Cole spotted this Craigslist shout-out for Wallingford oldster roadsters: Sorry, don't know where else to post this...it is automotive related...thanks ! I am looking for ANY info or past club members who belonged or knew about a car club from the 1950's or 1960's in SEATTLE out of LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL in Wallingford known as the " DRAG LYNX " Any info or help finding former club members would greatly be appreciated !! Please email me or…

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Free Lecture on Parenting Teens

While I've still got a few more years (thank goodness!) before my little ones reach their teen years, I'm somewhat daunted by the prospect of--what my mother often described as-- living with aliens under my roof.  As a teen, I had to agree, only I thought I was the normal one and she was the alien.  Knowing what I've put poor mom through during that time, I'd say I've got my work cut out for me! It's true that not all…

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More Yard Art

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We were peddling up Wallingford Ave the other day, dragging our tow of delicious Essential Bakery dumpster-diver bread when we noticed this beauty towering over the sidewalk. The beauty we're referring to is the the piece of art, not the artist, Marvin Oliver, standing next to it (who's not bad-looking, mind you, but not as stunning as his work). The piece is suggestive of an oil drill, perhaps, pulling power and myth from the earth. The images on the side, we…

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Bluebird Sandwich

Let's say the economy is in the dumps. Let's say further that the real estate market has led the charge into said dumps. Now let's say that your job depends on real estate and development because you're, say, an architect. Suddenly, there's not so much architecting going on. What do you do? Well, if you're our friend and Wallingford resident Nicole Winn, you start making really, really good sandwiches. As a Senior Associate at Weber Thompson, one of Seattle's top architectural…

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A new classic at the Boys & Girls Club

Its not very often that something new comes to a neighborhood and you immediately know it will stand the test of the time and become an iconic part of the streetscape. Last summer the Wallingford Boys & Girls Club gave us that when they constructed a community courtyard and commissioned Seattle glass artist Rodman Miller and metal artist Mimi Riley to build a fence along 45th St. Mimi, came up with the concept of 'storybook stream side". Out of her vision…

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Warrior-One

Every since Petosa Accordions (313 NE 45th St) shrank its footprint from the whole east side of its block on 45th to just a third of its size, we've been wondering what will fill the space. First came Puffin Glass on the corner, and just this weekend we spotted this sign in the remaining store front between Petosa's remaining frontage and Kate's Pub. Between Jae Hun Kim Tae Kwon Do across from Bartell's, the Modern Martial Arts Academy by 45th and…

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From the ashes of the Luau…

Goodbye Luau, hello Pour House! Yep, it was just weeks ago that the Luau Polynesian Lounge in Tangletown closed for good, but the new owners, Jay Farias and Erik Knutson, are already hard at work on remodeling its replacement, the Pour House Bar & Dining. We learn from Nancy Leeson at the Seattle Times that: Farias owned the Nickerson Street Saloon for a decade and later opened Joe's on Roosevelt (now the Roosevelt Ale House). His latest venture, Stix, a bastion…

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