http://seattlest.com/2006/05/19/sorry_the_blue_moon_is_open.php All comments for Sorry, The Blue Moon Is Open en-us 2009 seattle_james Tue, 06 Jan 2009 13:30:00 -0800 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss scarequotes@gmail.com scarequotes@gmail.com 60 http://seattlest.com/2006/05/19/sorry_the_blue_moon_is_open.php#comment-163987 http://seattlest.com/2006/05/19/sorry_the_blue_moon_is_open.php#comment-163987 Comments Fri, 19 May 2006 14:40:55 -0800 <p>My Dad grew up in Wallingford--my whole dad's side of the family lived in the neighborhood. This is pre-freeway, so Blue Moon was surrounded by houses--it was a neighborhood bar, not a last chance depot on the edge of those stupid 45th street strip malls. Anyway, he says the Blue Moon, in the 40s and 50s, was a hangout for pre-hippie intellectual types. Beatniks, I guess you'd say. They had poetry readings and talk ed about socialism and such. I'd imagine it was a refuge from the Red Fever mania that gripped the country at that time--especially when the UW was actively persecuting supposedly communist professors like Melvin Rader.</p>