The Greenwood Car Show is to be held on Saturday 6/27/09 and as usual, the cars on display will occupy Greenwood Ave. Greenwood Avenue North will be closed from 72nd Street to 87th Street as well as many of the side streets immediately off of that stretch. If you are planning a trip to North Seattle this weekend, keep that in mind.
Archive for June, 2009
Greenwood Car Show Again
June 21, 2009It’s time again for the Greenwood Car Show. It will be held on Saturday, June 27. This year they have their own website. As usual, a good chunk of Greenwood Avenue will be closed for the event so if you are planning to come to the area next Saturday in your car, remember to drive around Greenwood.
The Strange Ghost of Leilani Lanes
June 21, 2009It’s been more 3 years since the Leilani Lanes bowling alley went dark. And more than 2 years since its demolition. Yet its ghost remains by way of the sign that still says “Goodbye”. I hate long goodbye’s! At the present time, the site is still razed and unused. Most recently, contractors are using the area in front as a staging area for the dubious street improvements on northern Greenwood Avenue. According to a recent post in the in PhinneyWood Blog, a hearing was held last September for a building proposal. I don’t know what happened to that or the original plan, but the site still lies barren. And the Land Use sign has been graffiti’d to death.
I originally just assumed it was a case of bad timing – a project that ran into the mortgage and banking crisis. My dentist’s assistant seems to know more about it than I do. She said the project would require a re-vamp of the underground sewer system; an expensive proposition that the original contractor could not handle. I don’t know for sure, but the empty space doesn’t look to get filled any time soon.
It’s been more 3 years since the Leilani Lanes bowling alley went dark. And more than 2 years since its demolition. Yet its ghost remains by way of the sign that still says “Goodbye”. I hate long goodbye’s! At the present time, the site is still razed and unused. Most recently, contractors are using the area in front as a staging area for the dubious street improvements on northern Greenwood Avenue. According to a recent post in the in PhinneyWood Blog, a hearing was held last September for a building proposal. I don’t know what happened to that or the original plan, but the site still lies barren. And the Land Use sign has been graffiti’d to death.
I originally just assumed it was a case of bad timing – a project that ran into the mortgage and banking crisis. My dentist’s assistant seems to know more about it than I do. She said the project would require a re-vamp of the underground sewer system; an expensive proposition that the original contractor could not handle. I don’t know for sure, but the empty space doesn’t look to get filled any time soon.
