Nordy's Invites You To Bring Bikes Inside For Free Makeover
Our new workout regimen involves coasting down Pine to downtown, eating lunch, and bicycling back up to the Hill. If it works, we'll call it the 7-Minute Miracle! (Actually, even if it doesn't.) Often we pull up in front of Pacific Place, where there are four or more bike racks -- the kind of convenience we'd never noticed until we got pedals of our own. Today we were headed to the Nordstrom's Grill (the old boys' club in the basement of Nordstrom's, with a top-notch blackened salmon Caesar salad) and we biked the length of Pine in front and came up bike rack-less. So we peeked around the west side. Nuthin'. Honestly, not one? We biked back up to Pacific Place, past the Greenpeace sidewalk guys ("Aw, biker dude! You're savin' the planet, dude! Way to go!") and tied up at a hitching post there. We're still puzzled -- not that Nordstrom's has tons of people piling in on bikes, but that they're not making an effort to gladden their ecotopian customers' hearts with Nordstrom-brand bike racks out front. That's the Nordstrom touch. Maybe they're all on the north side, like moss? Or are bike racks just too pleb?
