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Oldermanish

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I think pretty much all the dive bars I went to in Seattle back in the 90s no longer exist either, they've been replaced by condos. :(

Not sure the lyrics fit, but it still kinda reminds me of this song.

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Don't hate me but Subpop's first office after the big wave of artists was in the ground floor of an apartment building I built. Cool guys but clear they were looking for new talent they could afford. The property was a derelict warehouse/flophouse torn down before I got there. It was a tough neighborhood and not in a hip way.
 
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Oldermanish said:
Don't hate me but Subpop's first office after the big wave of artists was in the ground floor of an apartment building I built. Cool guys but clear they were looking for new talent they could afford. The property was a derelict warehouse/flophouse torn down before I got there. It was a tough neighborhood and not in a hip way.
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So what year did you get tired of the Seattle scene?

Personally it would have been when Cobain died. And Nirvana was never actually even my fave grunge band.
 
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So what year did you get tired of the Seattle scene?

Personally it would have been when Cobain died. And Nirvana was never actually even my fave grunge band.
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I worked in Seattle since 1972 and enjoyed the vitality. Right up to seeing a very angry female cop take an 80+ year old local black man face down on a sidewalk. He was using a golf putter for a walking stick. Everyone knew the guy; local humorist and he's stop by the jobsite on his walk. We were on the same block as the SPD precinct that featured on TV in the "Chop zone" of protests which began in response to that attack and others from a subset of abusive cops. Most were great folks and hated what happened.

Some of the protestors tore down and used our company banner as a rain tarp as they paraded for the cameras and we saw that on live broadcast. Most of the protestors were wannabe partiers mixed with gangsters selling dope to them. Fox News portrayed it as left wing violence while CNN suggested outside agitators but the City Council conceded control and it was mostly anarchic kids enjoying a lengthy party. Trouble started the year before when techie/frat boy thugs came in to beat on any gay men in the area, too.
Capital Hill was generally a safe place for music, art, skateboarders and gay residency until that sh*t started. It was then I got tired. Got really tired in the aftermath when squatters would attempt to set up tent compounds in the backyard of our Greenlake job office and break into buildings under construction. The cops were restrained from any response by City Council directives, which fruststrated them. We had one building hit twice with attempted arson during the framing phase. Long term residents' houses next door needed 24 hr patrols that we paid for. We had several assaults on project staff by "campers". All of my superintendents finished their projects and left the company about the same time I did.

I lived East of Seattle in as much countryside as remained. Our decision to move out of state was crystalized by Amazon's corporate elite office migration to nearby Bellevue as a response to Seattle City Council levying a head tax on anyone paid over $150k. Our neighborhood became wedged between Microsoft, a new Google campus, Amazon, Tableau, Facebook....lots of very highly paid folks with no interest in neighborhoods. Houses with small orchards and stables built on acreage in the 50's started dropping everywhere and replaced by 4-5,000 sf $3mil Hardi-board contempo-boxes (no rap on the product, if used creatively). The place I grew up effectively died in a matter several years. Not an unusual story but the speed of the change was astounding.
 
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