Photograph courtesy Seattle Municipal Archives.
Vintage Seattle has a post up today concerning a sinkhole that swallowed up a portion of Ravenna Boulevard back in 1957. She’s a doozy.
Thanks to Ann for the link.
Archives for August 2009
PUSA for kids, in a park near you
August 26, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Chris Ballew, who you may know as the lead singer of the Presidents of the United States of America, is coming to Burke Gilman Park this Saturday, August 29th at 3pm. Ballew’s got a little side project of kids’ music that he’ll be performing (as Caspar Babypants) to benefit the Seattle Ronald McDonald House.
Suggested donations are $5 per person or $10 per family. Food will be provided by Metropolitan Market.
Crab Farts 101 is in session TONIGHT
August 19, 2009 by Leave a Comment
If you have never seen or heard of the phenomenon called Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel, you can just stop reading this right now.
Phil Harris, captain of the F/V Cornelia Marie (and the poster boy for how to look sexy in a mullet), will be at the University Village QFC TODAY from 4-7pm.
If you miss him then, you have plenty of opportunities to try again.
Northeast Branch Re-Imagining
August 19, 2009 by 1 Comment
Have any holds at the Northeast Branch of the Seattle Public Library? If so, you have until Sunday, August 22 to pick them up.
As of Monday, August 23, the branch will be closed…until early October. No no, not just closed Labor Day week like the rest of ’em (for fiscal and BBQ reasons), but for MUCH. LONGER.
But FEAR NOT! The closure is for a good cause (or three):
- The hold areas are being consolidated and expanded, and moved into the current Teen area.
- The Teen area is being moved to the northern end of the branch. [Insert joke about teens here.]
- Two more self-checkout stations are being added.
I first noticed the monstrous piles of materials on hold after last winter’s snows. I just figured that the books were getting to the library, but patrons weren’t. Turns out that this branch of a mere 15,000 square feet process more holds than nearly every other branch in the system. The aforementioned switcheroo refurbishing will make room for all of that.
Yes, I’m sure that the library folks are aware that the branch underwent a doubling of size only five years ago, and now, here were are, already needing to close things down and rework it again. But I imagine that many of us were hitting the bookstores more back then, in the heady economy of the mid-2000s. *sigh*
Your holds will be transferred to the Lake City Branch during the closure, unless you choose otherwise. I’m going to switch to the Green Lake Branch and go for more walks. Or just visit Chocolati a lot, to try and cope with the change. We’ll see.
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