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Neighborhood News And Local Blog Round-Up

  • The P-I reports that Washington unemployment hit 9.3% last month, up from 9.1% in May.
  • The Big Blog says that Allstate has found what we all already knew: Seattle drivers are amongst the worst in the nation.
  • The Magnolia Voice has info on the "Admiral's House" up above Smith Cove that the Navy plans to sell off. If you have need of a two-story, eight-bedroom house on four acres of land with one of the best views in the city, apparently you should look into it.
  • Vintage Seattle has a nice shot of First Hill and the Central District from 1914, so if that's the part of town you call home, you can take a look to see how nice it was before they built all those damn condos.
  • Horse's Ass and Publicola have info on the manufactured controversy over whether Pete Holmes, who's running against incumbent Tom Carr for City Attorney, meets the qualifications for the job.
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By Jeremy in on July 14, 2009 4:30 PM

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  • jdavin

    RE: condos, I don't like uniformity and ugly, poorly designed condos. But I don't think all condos are like that - I've seen some pretty cool ones in South Lake Union. Not as familiar with First Hill ones though, sorry.

    My view on modern aesthetics versus 100-year-ago aesthetics is that people probably have always complained about the style of their day and looked favorably and nostalgically upon the style of 50 or 100 years ago. My guess is that in the 1910s the neighbors were complaining about the new buildings in their neighborhood that were ___ (fill in the blank with whatever was undesirable at the time - too gaudy, too flashy, too big, too much brick?) and I imagine the people of the time spoke nostalgically about the buildings from the 1800s. I wouldn't be surprised if 50 years from now, the people of the future look back on our condos and say man, weren't buildings so much nicer in those days? Now we have to deal with all this ugly spaceship-style housing (or whatever the style of 2050 ends up being...).

  • Sorry for the tech troubles, bilco, we're harassing the overlords constantly to get shit fixed. As for the condo comment, apologies--I was, as bilco intuited, more directly taking a shot at ugly, cookie-cutter condos taking over the Central.

  • bilco

    Great to see the login timeouts are back....



    jdavin - do you really love the uniformity of design that our condo-rific city now embraces? Do you not remember what it was like to actually be able to see the water (lake or sound) from virtually any street in the core of the city?



    Mindful density is great - the mindless dreck we've build sux.

  • jdavin

    > you can take a look to see how nice it was before they built all those damn condos.



    Couldn't resist making a dig on condos huh? :)

    I love how condo haters will say pretty much anything is better than a neighborhood with condos - even a sparsely populated 1910s neighborhood with vacant grass lots and dirt pathways. Personally I think a picture of modern day First Hill would look way better - a prosperous, thriving, densely populated neighborhood with condos, apartments, commercial stores, a world-class hospital, etc.



    The 1914 one looks vintage and nostalgic, but "nicer"? Not really.

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