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I was 'cool' for a couple of years or so in Seattle in the late 80s and early 90s. Lived in the last frame house in Belltown, made art and had lots of artist fr

I was 'cool' for a couple of years or so in Seattle in the late 80s and early 90s. Lived in the last frame house in Belltown, made art and had lots of artist friends, saw Nirvana and four other bands for $5 at Squid Row, have pictures of my out of town friends at Jimi Hendrix' original grave, ate cheap soup for lunch lots of days at Pike Place Market, and generally was so much cooler than the people I left behind in the Midwest that it was impossible to quantify. I don't miss those days. In fact, it seems like a gigantic waste of time 30 years later. Glad I got out when I did.

LMYahooTFY 7y ago
Would you mind elaborating? I'm curious to hear what makes you look back on it with some disdain? Is it something you would sum up as a high opportunity cost?
- sverige 7y ago
  You could call it high opportunity cost, but only in the sense of life goals as viewed from later in life, not the usual financial sense. I recognize clearly now that at the time I was just drifting through life without any real sense of purpose. Youth is wasted on the young, as they say.
Rediscover 7y ago
> last frame house in Belltown Curious, was that the one on the 2200 block of Second, or the one on Lenora and Post Alley? If the latter, do You have any pics?
- sverige 7y ago
  IIRC, it was between Broad and Cedar off of First, back on the lot toward Post Alley, across from the Labor Temple. Any pics I have are buried somewhere in storage, unfortunately. Edit: It might've been between Broad and Eagle. It's been almost 30 years and the neighborhood has completely changed. It was directly uphill from the Union 76 Superfund site, which might be the sculpture park now. I remember watching the trucks swoop in one day as they put up fences around the site. Our property was managed by a somewhat crazy SEIU member who was a direct descendant of a surviving male member of the Donner Party.
  - Rediscover 7y ago
    Thanks for the info and the great description ("...Donner party"). My partner at that time quite possibly was an over-seerer of the activities You described, she did superfund environmental impact stuff and I vaguely recall something about it. There was a small house I really admired on Post & Lenora, it was there until the early 2000's (I lived <50 meters away).
    - sverige 7y ago
      Ah yes, I was very likely wrong when I said it was the last one. It was certainly the last one I saw regularly. I moved to Wallingford after that, and then later to Squire Park, before I left the area entirely.

LMYahooTFY 7y ago

Would you mind elaborating? I'm curious to hear what makes you look back on it with some disdain? Is it something you would sum up as a high opportunity cost?

sverige 7y ago
You could call it high opportunity cost, but only in the sense of life goals as viewed from later in life, not the usual financial sense. I recognize clearly now that at the time I was just drifting through life without any real sense of purpose. Youth is wasted on the young, as they say.

Rediscover 7y ago

> last frame house in Belltown Curious, was that the one on the 2200 block of Second, or the one on Lenora and Post Alley? If the latter, do You have any pics?

sverige 7y ago
IIRC, it was between Broad and Cedar off of First, back on the lot toward Post Alley, across from the Labor Temple. Any pics I have are buried somewhere in storage, unfortunately. Edit: It might've been between Broad and Eagle. It's been almost 30 years and the neighborhood has completely changed. It was directly uphill from the Union 76 Superfund site, which might be the sculpture park now. I remember watching the trucks swoop in one day as they put up fences around the site. Our property was managed by a somewhat crazy SEIU member who was a direct descendant of a surviving male member of the Donner Party.
- Rediscover 7y ago
  Thanks for the info and the great description ("...Donner party"). My partner at that time quite possibly was an over-seerer of the activities You described, she did superfund environmental impact stuff and I vaguely recall something about it. There was a small house I really admired on Post & Lenora, it was there until the early 2000's (I lived <50 meters away).
  - sverige 7y ago
    Ah yes, I was very likely wrong when I said it was the last one. It was certainly the last one I saw regularly. I moved to Wallingford after that, and then later to Squire Park, before I left the area entirely.