Wallyhood has generally played the booster for businesses in Wallingford (with the exception of the Erotic Bakery, which was flat out and unnecessarily rude to us, and which also makes lousy tasting cakes). Hey, we even saw some good in condo development. Our good will does not extend to Pay Day Loans. It is an embarrassment and a blight on the neighborhood. This company and companies like it prey on the least fortunate, charging usurious rates (391% APR!) to those who…
A year ago September, we quit our jobs, rented out our house, packed 10 lbs of clothes and 20 lbs of travel guides into our backpacks and headed to Europe. We started in Paris, made our way down through France into Spain, bumped over to Berlin and finished up with a month and a half in Italy, most of the time spent in a rented flat in Florence.Needless to say, we drank some wine. We're not connoisseurs by any means, nor…
Tipster Sara turned us on to what could be the most colossal, earth-shaking construction project this side of the Big Dig. How do we know it's big? Well, just listen to what it's called:Large Neighborhood Street FundIt's right there in the name. Large. And Large it is. The city is going to invest $6 million citywide for new sidewalks at schools, sidewalk repair, better lighting in business districts and slowing speeders, and Wallingford stands to gain from the city's largess. Now,…
How did we miss this? Tipsters, work with us, here! We depend on you to bring us the news, and we have to go to the Queen Anne blog to find out something happening in our own neighborhood?Apparently, a Dick Spady, founder of Dick's Drive-In, held a press conference at his Wallingford store (the original Dick's, we might add) to unveil the winner of the first ever Dick's poster design contest today. Best we can tell from the web site, either…
Wallyhood now qualifies as "media", and as such is privileged to receive breathless press releases. We were amused to have recently received one entitled:New Whole Foods Market® Will Anchor TRF Pacific’s Interbay Urban CenterNew Store to Feature Interactive Healthy Eating Center, Whole Values Section and Other Innovations"Interactive Healthy Eating Center"? Umm...so, that would be...a "restaurant"?
Wallyhood doesn't have a forum section (we're a bit envious of the West Seattle blog in this respect), but we do have some healthy commenting, and the post with the most was the recent news that new condos may be in the offing for the Tweedy & Popp / Rusty Pelican / Murphy's / Kill My Lanlord Dry Cleaner corner. It's worth bubbling them up:On the nay side, we've got "more soulless depressing boxes", "Go build your crappy condo on one…