Dead Diners
I have found my Seattle Textbook, and it’s Steve Callihan’s website, A Seattle Lexicon. It’ll take me a week to read through it, and I may forget 75% of it immediately, but I finally feel like I’ve got a window to the “everybody who’s anybody knows this info” … you know, the grassroots cultural foundation of the town.
But, oh, the roll call of the dead diners dead diners is heartbreaking. I love diners, so that page is like a cemetery of loved ones I never got a chance to meet.
(On the upside … he says there’s still a Farrell’s in San Diego! Anybody else have Farrellphobia?)
Man, old Seattle before it got all hip and modern sure did seem cool. I’d love to go back to that time for a couple of weeks just to soak it in.
This will definitely date me — but as kids, Farrell’s was THE place to go for birthday celebrations!