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Can't Miss It: Monday
First things first: Things are seriously awry in this town when a Taco-frickin'-Bell inspires multiple blog requiems when it closes, but Seattle's own Mix Ice Cream slips away into the night with nary a peep.
That's right. We're going to have to go to Fremont or (shudder) Southcenter when we crave hand-mixed ice cream. They've got Cold Stones. But the Ave is now Mixless.
We discovered the above-pictured sign Friday afternoon, when we stopped by for some ice cream before visiting the Henry. We settled for Häagen-Dazs and resolved to get to the bottom of Mix's disappearance.
But there wasn't much to discover. The sign--from an employee? a manager? a last customer?--says the store closed in '07, but Menuism and Yelp both include reviews from early this year. Yelpers say the Greenlake location is closed, too.
And that's it. Nothing in the Times, the P-I, Google News, Technorati. Granted, we hadn't been for, well, a couple of years -- but we had a kid and moved to Rainier Beach, so our ice cream forays have been fewer, farther between, and more limited in scope. But we used to take out-of-town guests to Mix -- even when it was Marbletop -- and seduce them with a Jet City Buzz. We expect pieces of Seattle to vanish, but dammit, we also expect some commemoration when they were as yummy as Mix was.
Now? Now we regret that we never brought in the mini-pretzels one Mix employee said she'd mix into a scoop for us. Maybe someone at Cold Stone would do that in lieu of singing a song for a tip.
More info on what happened to Mix? Let us know!
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NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! DO NOT WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey! i lamented its closing in my blog! oh, right. no one reads that.
well, here you go. i link to an article in the uw daily that explains the circumstances around this sad event.
http://ozmafan.livejournal.com/172314.html?mode=reply
really, i LOVED the mix. coldstone is so not the same; i don't care what anyone says.
Sorry my Technorati search didn't turn up your blog, ozmafan.
And that Daily article is pretty interesting -- sounds like the natural life cycle of small business in action. Can't pay the rent? Time to close.
I'm not sure life without strawberry/graham cracker/cheesecake ice cream in a waffle cone is worth living. Goodbye, cruel Mix-free world!
NONONONONO!
I think I remembered hearing that it was closed, but thought that it was just a case of needed remodeling inside. This is super-depressing.
This is so sad. And yeah, Ozmafan, you're right. Cold Stone is not the same. Not at all.
I think the city loves gelato more than mixed hard ice-cream...
"Granted, we hadn't been for, well, a couple of years..."
"...sounds like the natural life cycle of small business in action."
sounds like another case of get off your ass or otherwise they places that you say you love will disappear.
Everything you love's going to disappear. Except our ass.
There was also a mix around Greenlake. Is that one gone too?
I wondered the same thing. Per the Daily article and Yelp, yes, the Greenlake Mix is also gone.
Super sad! I used to work at the U-District location. Best job ever. My sources tell me bankruptcy was the cause.