SEATTLE HISTORY - "THINGS THAT AREN'T HERE ANYMORE"

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Chubby and Tubby was a great place to buy Chuck Taylors and shrink to fit 501s.
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I equate Chubby and Tubby with Chuck Taylors.
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And Carhart. Got a bunch at substantial discounts when they shuttered the White Center store.
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I wasn’t wearing Carhart to school in the early 80s.
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I'm sure you were wearing LawMan Painters, like the rest of us.
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I went to Catholic school, we wore a fucking uniform. I think the cheap clothes my mom bought were called Tough Skins or something stupid like that. All the poor kids wore them.
 
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Chubby and Tubby was a great place to buy Chuck Taylors and shrink to fit 501s.
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I equate Chubby and Tubby with Chuck Taylors.
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And Carhart. Got a bunch at substantial discounts when they shuttered the White Center store.
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I wasn’t wearing Carhart to school in the early 80s.
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I'm sure you were wearing LawMan Painters, like the rest of us.
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I went to Catholic school, we wore a fucking uniform. I think the cheap clothes my mom bought were called Tough Skins or something stupid like that. All the poor kids wore them.
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I wore Toughskins jeans as a kid

I actually never knew you wore a uniform to school.
 
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Sicks stadium... somehow MLB didn't think that this 25,000 max stadium was up to their rigorous standards ~ go figure... I do fondly remember sitting in the informality to watch Rainier Baseball as a kid.
 
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Sicks stadium... somehow MLB didn't think that this 25,000 max stadium was up to their rigorous standards ~ go figure... I do fondly remember sitting in the informality to watch Rainier Baseball as a kid.
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I was there as a junior Seattle Pilot

Fuck Bud Selig
 
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Sicks stadium... somehow MLB didn't think that this 25,000 max stadium was up to their rigorous standards ~ go figure... I do fondly remember sitting in the informality to watch Rainier Baseball as a kid.
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In '77 I played[/s] warmed up there in the AAA state championship game. Tom Niedenfuer beat us in 11 innings, IIRC. 30 years later, I dumped a chunk of my life savings on a "Remodel of the Century" at the Lowes that stands there now...

Edit: It says it "closed" in '76, but we were there in '77...along with the pigeon and seagull shit. Skinned infield, they were playing fast-pitch there, I later heard from a friend.
 
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So they were selling the stadium the rapidly growing locally owned company [CX Corporation] i worked for needed a large manufacturing space so they bought the land and ripped down the stadium and built the new facility... I worded there for a couple of years before the company was sold to a swiss mega corporation the bought the company for the patents and technology which competed with their products and promptly laid off the 400-500 people that worked there.... so no its a lowes and probably some other stores as well?
 
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Chubby and Tubby was a great place to buy Chuck Taylors and shrink to fit 501s.
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I equate Chubby and Tubby with Chuck Taylors.
Click to expand...

And Carhart. Got a bunch at substantial discounts when they shuttered the White Center store.
Click to expand...

I wasn’t wearing Carhart to school in the early 80s.
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I'm sure you were wearing LawMan Painters, like the rest of us.
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I went to Catholic school, we wore a fucking uniform. I think the cheap clothes my mom bought were called Tough Skins or something stupid like that. All the poor kids wore them.
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HR or OLG? Please not HF.
 
So they were selling the stadium the rapidly growing locally owned company [CX Corporation] i worked for needed a large manufacturing space so they bought the land and ripped down the stadium and built the new facility... I worded there for a couple of years before the company was sold to a swiss mega corporation the bought the company for the patents and technology which competed with their products and promptly laid off the 400-500 people that worked there.... so no its a lowes and probably some other stores as well?
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To the best of my recollection (limited, because I’m a BOOMER), there was a large facility directly east of the Lowes building (shared porking lot), not sure what it was at that tim, but it was big.
 
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View attachment 50714
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Chubby and Tubby was a great place to buy Chuck Taylors and shrink to fit 501s.
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I equate Chubby and Tubby with Chuck Taylors.
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And Carhart. Got a bunch at substantial discounts when they shuttered the White Center store.
Click to expand...

I wasn’t wearing Carhart to school in the early 80s.
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I'm sure you were wearing LawMan Painters, like the rest of us.
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I went to Catholic school, we wore a fucking uniform.[/b] I think the cheap clothes my mom bought were called Tough Skins or something stupid like that. All the poor kids wore them.
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So did I, but our pants were salt & pepper corduroys until about 4th grade, when the SJWs made us switch to green jeans, recommending Toughskins. Fucking SJWs ruin everything.

Rebel that I was, I refused, and went with JCP Super Denims (who remembers the robot commercials?) instead of Sears Toughskins.

JCP clothes were always better than Sears shit. So I stayed one step above the pours at my catholic school.
 
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