Visible in the mid-ground is the Wallingford Police and Fire Station (now the Neighborcare Clinic), with the “Police” sign still visible. This little tidbit of memory adds some color to what that would have been like in year’s prior:
“The Wallingford Fire and Police Station … made quite an impression on district resident Paul Alexander, who …
He led many different lives, all of them colorful. At different periods, he was a wrestling promoter, owner of a chain of record stores from Olympia to Bellingham, and a Hollywood soundtrack consultant. There’s an interesting profile of him on the KIRO news website; it is well worth a read.
Silverstone sold the Wallingford Golden Oldies record shop on 45th to new owners in 2017. Like most places in the neighborhood, they are temporarily closed due …
Speaking of home, if you’re like me, you’ve spent some serious time at that home recently. No lingering over a latte and an eggel at Irwin’s, no browsing of Peak Picks at the library, no casual pop-in at Wally Pets for a re-stock lamb lung and a healthy dose of pup socialization.
Perhaps you’re oscillating …
[Note: After this story was written, but before it could be published, Mayor Durkin announced a 2-day suspension of construction beginning Thursday, April 9, so that city employees and contractors could more rigorously implement social distancing policies at their work sites. Presumably, then, there will be no work on 40th St. during that time.]
Yes, I’ve cribbed my title from the Postal Service Creed, but today I’m going to apply it to the workers of SDOT and their contractors. For the past several weeks, virus or no virus, they have been out ripping up 40th St. and the adjacent sidewalks …
No one needs to be told that Covid 19 has not just caused a whole lot of damage to global health; it has also caused widespread, serious economic damage as well. Literally millions of people have been rendered jobless nationwide in just the past couple of weeks. Front and center has been the food industry. It’s impossible to walk down Stone Way or 45th and not notice all the closed restaurants and cafes which have left unemployed cooks, wait staff, baristas and bartenders in their wake. But many other folks have been affected, among them people in the performing arts.…
During these crazy times it is great for us to get outside and put our focus into productive projects that provide an opportunity to use our pent up physical and emotional energy. Edible gardening projects provide a chance to use our bodies and our minds and will offer us some nutritional sustenance in the coming months.
I was thinking about one of the first plants I successfully grew (given my long time history as a plant killer) and recalled that I had been able to once get a rosemary plant to thrive in a pot on our condo balcony many …
A little story for you… when I had laser eye surgery a few years back the doctor gave me a valium to calm my nerves. And in case that was not enough, as I lay down on the table he handed me a teddy bear. Now for a moment I thought that was pretty silly for him to hand me, a grown woman, a teddy bear. But you bet your life I held onto that teddy bear while the laser was doing its work on my precious eyes. And it helped a little bit. Maybe it was a bit of …
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