daranee, Author at Wallyhood

Accidents at Wallingford and N 41st Street

daranee April 10, 2015 23 Comments

On Thursday April 2nd, I was driving on N 42nd Street towards Wallingford Ave N when I saw what appeared to be the aftermath of a car accident on Wallingford. There was a black SUV with some pretty bad damage to the front and a girl on the sidewalk crying with a woman.

I thought it was strange because my husband had just witnessed an accident at Wallingford and N 41st in December with a car in a truck. I requested data on car accidents for the intersection of Wallingford Ave N and N 41st and N 42nd Streets. WSDOT …

Dr. Burleigh, Dentist, Leaves Wallingford After 30 years

daranee March 23, 2015 Comments are off

On Saturday I received this letter from my dentist Dr. Garth Burleigh whose office is at 1212 North 45th Street.

Dear Valued Patients,

Sadly, the time has come…our landlord could no longer repair the building that housed our dental practice for over thirty years. Like many other buildings in the neighborhood, it was sold to developers and will be demolished…

The letter goes on to say that Dr. Burleigh will be working for Drs. Jeff and Annie Knudsen in the U-District at their practice Brush Dental.

I can’t tell you how sad this makes me. I’m already starting to feel …

Bootyland Moving to Wallingford Center

daranee March 7, 2015 5 Comments

I stopped by Bootyland, the hip children’s clothing and toy boutique which moved from Capitol Hill into the former slot of Paron’s Closet in Wallingford Center. Jordan writes:

Hopefully, they’ll do better than Paron’s Closet (http://www.wallyhood.org/2013/07/parons-closet-closing-notes/) and Izilla Toys (http://www.wallyhood.org/2011/10/izilla-toys-closing/), the latter of which made a similar move from Capitol Hill to Wallingford Center, where it discovered the hard way that Wallingford Center’s organic foot traffic is fairly sparse.

Although their opening was March 4th, they weren’t quite ready for show time. I was able to see their merchandise and speak to the owner nonetheless. What I saw looked good. …

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