What's the one thing you miss most about living in Seattle?

[Fire_Marshall_Bill]

Seattle was fucking great until about 2000 and when the population was under 700k.

All the new stick skinny tech fags and their 300lb girlfriends have ballooned the population to over 800k and they all suck, have no character, no sense of humor, are fully loaded with social justice bullshit, and live through their fucking phones.

The speeding meteor of death cannot come fast enough for this dirty sphincter city.

Yeah I think 2000 was the point of demarkation between good Seattle and woke faggot Seattle. I remember wanting to move here by my "senior" year at UW in 2002.

When I was a kid, the population was 500,000 and it was liberal but not leftist. We just called SJWs annoying, bleeding heart liberals then.

 

[Fire_Marshall_Bill]

Summers there are awesome...of course the last tim I was there, it hit 100 fucking degrees, but for the most part

 

[MikeDamone]

I remember my Seattle phase

 

[YellowSnow]

I remember my Seattle phase

I’ve had 3 distinct Seattle phases. Doubt there will be a 4th. We’ve got irreconcilable differences though now.

 

[El_K]

Too many things I miss about "old" Seattle
The Mercer Arena
RCKCNDY
The Fun Forest
The Coliseum
The seats in the Coliseum/Key Arena/Climate Pledge Arena. those red velour seats!
The Kingdome
The Lusty Lady
Free busses downtown
Building that were landmarks. The Natural gas building. The spice building. The PI Building
The strip clubs
Jimi Hendrix' old grave site
Tower Records off Mercer
the radio stations
90.5 KCMU.
The Ave in the 80s-90s
The theater chain that showed arty fartsy films/ The Guild, The Varsity, Seven Gables
The Viaduct
the waterfront
520 with no tolls
When Seafair was a party
Chinatown and none of this PC International District
Seahawks original colors
Pioneer Square
Tuba Man
Frederick & Nelson
the Azteca on Eastlake
The Blob
Nordstrom with the computer font times and the service you would get then
The Grit. some graffiti, a few homeless, a few drunks. Not over run like it is now

If you had to pinpoint it to one thing that was the tipping point to new Seattle, for me it would be when Vulcan or whoever bought up those small properties in south Lake Union and just developed the shit out of SLU and Mercer St

I guess you could do this about any city

 

[LebamDawg]

I miss the FREE hydroplane races, camping over night on the shores of LW before the races.
Shooting pool at The 211 on iirc Pine (wasn't good nuff to play snooker)
Being an old fart - Concerts at Eagle's Auditorium
Wrestling at the Masonic Temple on Capital Hill
Free concerts at Volunteer Park, Golden Gardens of Seward Park (rare)

 

[DerekJohnson]

Too many things I miss about "old" Seattle
The Mercer Arena
RCKCNDY
The Fun Forest
The Coliseum
The seats in the Coliseum/Key Arena/Climate Pledge Arena. those red velour seats!
The Kingdome
The Lusty Lady
Free busses downtown
Building that were landmarks. The Natural gas building. The spice building. The PI Building
The strip clubs
Jimi Hendrix' old grave site
Tower Records off Mercer
the radio stations
90.5 KCMU.
The Ave in the 80s-90s
The theater chain that showed arty fartsy films/ The Guild, The Varsity, Seven Gables
The Viaduct
the waterfront
520 with no tolls
When Seafair was a party
Chinatown and none of this PC International District
Seahawks original colors
Pioneer Square
Tuba Man
Frederick & Nelson
the Azteca on Eastlake
The Blob
Nordstrom with the computer font times and the service you would get then
The Grit. some graffiti, a few homeless, a few drunks. Not over run like it is now

If you had to pinpoint it to one thing that was the tipping point to new Seattle, for me it would be when Vulcan or whoever bought up those small properties in south Lake Union and just developed the shit out of SLU and Mercer St

I guess you could do this about any city

Great list

 

[DerekJohnson]

Fourth of Jul-Ivar's parties at Gas Works
Seeing people everywhere wearing UW apparel

 

[TurdBomber]

Seattle was fucking great until about 2000 and when the population was under 700k.

All the new stick skinny tech fags and their 300lb girlfriends have ballooned the population to over 800k and they all suck, have no character, no sense of humor, are fully loaded with social justice bullshit, and live through their fucking phones.

The speeding meteor of death cannot come fast enough for this dirty sphincter city.

But what’s something positive that you miss?

Smith & Wessons at the Doghouse at 6 a.m. after an all-nighter in Belltown.
Driving without having to dodge retarded bicyclists who need special lines, lanes and lights, or else cannot function in traffic.
Greenlake without homeless surrounding it and not seeing HEAPS OF TRASH FUCKING EVERYWHERE.
FUN bars and GOOD restaurant food, vs. overpriced, mediocre "artisan" everything that sucks.
Good service in bars and restaurants.
Bar taps with a variety of craft beers instead of 20 different IPAs and one stout.

For starters.

 

[TurdBomber]

Too many things I miss about "old" Seattle

If you had to pinpoint it to one thing that was the tipping point to new Seattle, for me it would be when Vulcan or whoever bought up those small properties in south Lake Union and just developed the shit out of SLU and Mercer St
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I guess you could do this about any city

Paul Allen offered to donate ALL THAT LAND to the City for the Seattle Commons park, and the same Antifa-type assholes we see today opposed it and the proponents couldn't get the 60% they needed from the public to vote it in. So Allen said, "Fuck You Guysm, Then" and developed the fuck out of SLU, instead.

If this doesn't convince you how fucking stupid Seattle voters actually are, nothing will.

 

[MikeDamone]

I remember my Seattle phase

Too many things I miss about "old" Seattle
The Mercer Arena
RCKCNDY
The Fun Forest
The Coliseum
The seats in the Coliseum/Key Arena/Climate Pledge Arena. those red velour seats!
The Kingdome
The Lusty Lady
Free busses downtown
Building that were landmarks. The Natural gas building. The spice building. The PI Building
The strip clubs
Jimi Hendrix' old grave site
Tower Records off Mercer
the radio stations
90.5 KCMU.
The Ave in the 80s-90s
The theater chain that showed arty fartsy films/ The Guild, The Varsity, Seven Gables
The Viaduct
the waterfront
520 with no tolls
When Seafair was a party
Chinatown and none of this PC International District
Seahawks original colors
Pioneer Square
Tuba Man
Frederick & Nelson
the Azteca on Eastlake
The Blob
Nordstrom with the computer font times and the service you would get then
The Grit. some graffiti, a few homeless, a few drunks. Not over run like it is now

If you had to pinpoint it to one thing that was the tipping point to new Seattle, for me it would be when Vulcan or whoever bought up those small properties in south Lake Union and just developed the shit out of SLU and Mercer St

I guess you could do this about any city

Robin and Maynard - Roy Otis
The Blade
Spoonman at Pikes Place
UW football
Lunch at The Met
The shoe shine guy on 1st and Columbia

 

[PurpleThrobber]

The Throbber misses Ivar's at SEA. For fuck's sake, that airport is shit to begin with and they got rid of the only decent food in the place.

 

[YellowSnow]

Seattle was fucking great until about 2000 and when the population was under 700k.

All the new stick skinny tech fags and their 300lb girlfriends have ballooned the population to over 800k and they all suck, have no character, no sense of humor, are fully loaded with social justice bullshit, and live through their fucking phones.

The speeding meteor of death cannot come fast enough for this dirty sphincter city.

But what’s something positive that you miss?

Smith & Wessons at the Doghouse at 6 a.m. after an all-nighter in Belltown.
Driving without having to dodge retarded bicyclists who need special lines, lanes and lights, or else cannot function in traffic.
Greenlake without homeless surrounding it and not seeing HEAPS OF TRASH FUCKING EVERYWHERE.
FUN bars and GOOD restaurant food, vs. overpriced, mediocre "artisan" everything that sucks.
Good service in bars and restaurants.
Bar taps with a variety of craft beers instead of 20 different IPAs and one stout.

For starters.

Seattle has to have the worst possible geography to be a bicycle commuter city. It's never going to be an effective way for most folks to commute. I was always astonished with the risks parents would take taking their kids on the back of their bikes to school on busy ass arterials with no bike line.

White Wakanda on the other hand is a marvelously bike friendly layout, although I lay off the country roads with minimal shoulders myself. I like to the give the hicks their space as they were here first.

 

[YellowSnow]

I remember my Seattle phase

Too many things I miss about "old" Seattle
The Mercer Arena
RCKCNDY
The Fun Forest
The Coliseum
The seats in the Coliseum/Key Arena/Climate Pledge Arena. those red velour seats!
The Kingdome
The Lusty Lady
Free busses downtown
Building that were landmarks. The Natural gas building. The spice building. The PI Building
The strip clubs
Jimi Hendrix' old grave site
Tower Records off Mercer
the radio stations
90.5 KCMU.
The Ave in the 80s-90s
The theater chain that showed arty fartsy films/ The Guild, The Varsity, Seven Gables
The Viaduct
the waterfront
520 with no tolls
When Seafair was a party
Chinatown and none of this PC International District
Seahawks original colors
Pioneer Square
Tuba Man
Frederick & Nelson
the Azteca on Eastlake
The Blob
Nordstrom with the computer font times and the service you would get then
The Grit. some graffiti, a few homeless, a few drunks. Not over run like it is now

If you had to pinpoint it to one thing that was the tipping point to new Seattle, for me it would be when Vulcan or whoever bought up those small properties in south Lake Union and just developed the shit out of SLU and Mercer St

I guess you could do this about any city

Robin and Maynard - Roy Otis
The Blade
Spoonman at Pikes Place
UW football
Lunch at The Met
The shoe shine guy on 1st and Columbia

My shoe shine guysm were the folks in the basement of the Nordstrom flagship store. I used to got there like once a week on my lunch break. I miss that a lot.

 

[Fishpo31]

Old Ballard: drunk Norwegian fishermen
New Ballard: high (or strung out), mentally unstable homeless people

I miss drunk-fighter Ballard…

 

[PurpleThrobber]

Old Ballard: drunk Norwegian fishermen
New Ballard: high (or strung out), mentally unstable homeless people

I miss drunk-fighter Ballard…

Ya sure..ya betcha.

 

[LebamDawg]

Old Ballard: drunk Norwegian fishermen
New Ballard: high (or strung out), mentally unstable homeless people

I miss drunk-fighter Ballard…

I used to work at the Bananas Tavern - across from the Fremont Tavern and the Toohigh Tavern - working the door I let many a drunk fisherman in for free only to be paid back in kind or triple kind a few days later.

Miss the good tavern days through out Seattle

 

[dflea]

I miss the authentic ethnic food. Of all kinds. You leave the city and that shit gets harder to find.

I enjoyed a lot about going to UW and being in Seattle at the end of the 80's, but I don't miss most of it. The traffic was fucked even then.

 

[TurdBomber]

Seattle was fucking great until about 2000 and when the population was under 700k.

All the new stick skinny tech fags and their 300lb girlfriends have ballooned the population to over 800k and they all suck, have no character, no sense of humor, are fully loaded with social justice bullshit, and live through their fucking phones.

The speeding meteor of death cannot come fast enough for this dirty sphincter city.

But what’s something positive that you miss?

Smith & Wessons at the Doghouse at 6 a.m. after an all-nighter in Belltown.
Driving without having to dodge retarded bicyclists who need special lines, lanes and lights, or else cannot function in traffic.
Greenlake without homeless surrounding it and not seeing HEAPS OF TRASH FUCKING EVERYWHERE.
FUN bars and GOOD restaurant food, vs. overpriced, mediocre "artisan" everything that sucks.
Good service in bars and restaurants.
Bar taps with a variety of craft beers instead of 20 different IPAs and one stout.

For starters.

Seattle has to have the worst possible geography to be a bicycle commuter city. It's never going to be an effective way for most folks to commute. I was always astonished with the risks parents would take taking their kids on the back of their bikes to school on busy ass arterials with no bike line.

White Wakanda on the other hand is a marvelously bike friendly layout, although I lay off the country roads with minimal shoulders myself. I like to the give the hicks their space as they were here first.

Mt. Washington Drive to Tumalo Junction & back to Broken Top was always good.

 

[YellowSnow]

Seattle was fucking great until about 2000 and when the population was under 700k.

All the new stick skinny tech fags and their 300lb girlfriends have ballooned the population to over 800k and they all suck, have no character, no sense of humor, are fully loaded with social justice bullshit, and live through their fucking phones.

The speeding meteor of death cannot come fast enough for this dirty sphincter city.

But what’s something positive that you miss?

Smith & Wessons at the Doghouse at 6 a.m. after an all-nighter in Belltown.
Driving without having to dodge retarded bicyclists who need special lines, lanes and lights, or else cannot function in traffic.
Greenlake without homeless surrounding it and not seeing HEAPS OF TRASH FUCKING EVERYWHERE.
FUN bars and GOOD restaurant food, vs. overpriced, mediocre "artisan" everything that sucks.
Good service in bars and restaurants.
Bar taps with a variety of craft beers instead of 20 different IPAs and one stout.

For starters.

Seattle has to have the worst possible geography to be a bicycle commuter city. It's never going to be an effective way for most folks to commute. I was always astonished with the risks parents would take taking their kids on the back of their bikes to school on busy ass arterials with no bike line.

White Wakanda on the other hand is a marvelously bike friendly layout, although I lay off the country roads with minimal shoulders myself. I like to the give the hicks their space as they were here first.

Mt. Washington Drive to Tumalo Junction & back to Broken Top was always good.

Yep, nice views no doubt. Mt Washington Drive has decent shoulders.