broadway : a block of fun killed by posers
By now, complaints about Broadway are old news [mb]. However, today brings a new culprit in the de-coolification of what apparently used to be one of Seattle’s hipper neighborhoods. While the naive among us might have blamed the street’s troubles on the increasing homeless population, one merchant is setting the record straight.
The management of Broadway Grocery (which also houses “Pizza Passion”) is shutting down one of the area’s premier hang out spots. Which beloved hip locale, you ask? Why, the intersection of Broadway and Harrison, of course! And before you blame the transients, the owner makes it clear that the problem lies among the “posers, debutantes, and the tragically hip.”
So today, let’s all have a moment of silence for the passing of this cultural landmark. Even if we had no idea what we were missing until it was too late.
When I first came to Seattle and lived in the U district, you couldn’t walk down U ave without being acosted by various panhandlers, whereas Broadway was relatively clean and quiet. Now it’s come full circle. The U is turning into the place to live and Capitol Hill is getting progressively more run down.
That place has been crappy since before the U.S. government allegedly came and took away the awesome guy who sold Turkish food there (before Pizza Passion?). It’s always been a hangout for crazies.
I don’t know. I still find the sketchier blocks of the Ave much worse than Broadway’s sketchiest.
ellen: oh, I agree. I just find it super-funny that the management posted a sign about how those people ruined it for everyone. I’d like to know which reality he’s living in to see it as this treasured spot that the posers have destroyed.
(Before Pizza Passion they sold falafel there, but there probably was something even before that.)
20 years ago, that was a 7-11. it’s never been the hip place to hang out as far as i know. it used to be “cool” to sit on the wall across the street, i suppose.
i’ve seen Broadway in this part of its cycle before, and i expect that i’ll see it come out of it again.
The owner is being ironic.
sawii: really? and here I was assuming that the Age of Irony had officially passed.