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Updates: Edith tattoos, Hi-Life fire, raccoon

Posted by Geeky Swedes on March 28th, 2009

A couple quick updates to two stories from the last few days…

- After our story on the “Edith Macefield’s Army” tattoos, three TV stations aired the story. Curtis at Anchor Tattoo tells us that two more people have asked about getting the tattoo — including a woman in Shoreline who lived in Ballard for 30 years — adding to his waiting list of several others.

- The Hi-Life is still closed after Wednesday’s kitchen fire. The blaze was up inside the flue of a cooking range, and it’s taking several days to fix. The restaurant says it expects to open sometime mid to late this coming week.

- That raccoon that had taken up residence in a crows nest, is no longer there.

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  • I just want to say how happy i was to hear about the "steadfast" tattoo. Kudos to Curtis (one of the best tattoo artists in the city by the way) for doing the excellent design.
  • Sarah Miller
    Amazing, an elderly women doesn't want to move and everyone in Ballard turns her into a martyr. She made several statements saying that her decision to stay was in no way any sort of protest against the buildings. She didn't want to move, plain and simple. Amazing how the local news spins stories and conformists eat it right up.
  • ursoclever
    Religion was only a story to guide humans through the hurdles of morals in life, plain and simple. Look where that interpretation ended up..
  • Black Helicopter Operations
    Sarah - She was a symbol of Old Ballard. Those of us that were here before this place was turned into a three ring circus, "get it". You obviously don't, which is fine. Some things in life, can't be explained in terms easily understood by the masses.

    Now, just sit quietly in your condo and wait for the Matador to open, will ya?

    The good news is - I hear they are doing a neat tattoo of the new traffic cameras at the corner of Market and 15th, for all the "New Ballard" folks like you.
  • BlackSheep
    To me, it wasn't about the new buildings, or progress, or old/new Ballard - it was about the fact that she couldn't be bought.

    She had gotten herself into a position where she didn't need their stinkin' money. THAT is what made her a hero to me.
  • Black Helicopter Operations
    Maybe, but to me, it was her way of saying take your "Visualize Ballard" stickers and go back to where you came from.

    "Visualize This!" (as she make a gesture with a certain finger).

    Who printed those damn stickers anyway? Someone financed by a developer I assume, right?

    Do me a favor. Stop visualizing...
  • jules
    I'm with Blacksheep. I liked edith so much bc of the fact she could NOT be bought with their money. her life in her own home was more important to her than any money.

    not many people like that around these days.....
  • Vagrant
    Ain't that the truth! Most of you old ballardires will bend over and sing Glory when we drop a few hundred thousand for your sh*tty bungalows. I haven't met one whiner who won't grab his ankles for some yuppie $$.
  • Black Helicopter Operations
    Lot's of us Old Ballard people can't and never could afford a house. Nor, did we want one. (or give a rats ass about money). Some of us were actually trying to keep the yuppies out. Now, we are stuck with you and the Meth heads that came along with you. We did not live in Ballard to pocket money, we never cared about it in the first place. Some of us actually liked a quiet neigborhood, where you could actually walk around without Meth Heads and Yuppies everywhere, taking up space.
  • Black Helicopter Operations
    I mean, we have an Army of Meth and Crack dealers on parade, all day and all night, marching from Bergen Park/The Chai House Pay Phone to the 7-11 pay phone and back.

    Selling Crack/Meth and everything else under the sun to pedestrians up and down those sidewalks, while panhandling along the way. You mean to tell me, the Seattle Police refuse to even enforce that law (No meth/crack selling) or make a single arrest to set an example? Just one?

    The Seattle Police can't figure out to bug the pay phone in frount of the Chai House, when it was right on the frount page of the Ballard News Tribune, that it's used mostly for drug deals?

    Then, we have meth heads camping on Shilshole and Officer Haag practically offers to fluff up thier pillows for them and tell them a bedtime story, rather than take them in?
  • candice.
    BHO... you do realize that tweakers (ie. meth heads as you call them) are taking over the whole city, right?

    Meth is a problem in every city. Yeah... I KNOW tweakers are some of the worst people you could ever dream of to have as neighbors. But you need to stop acting like Ballard is the only place suffering from these addicts. They're everywhere.
  • sotired
    I think it's really funny that so many people have the time and energy to put into writing comments about this.

    Has it ever occured to anyone that maybe those of us who have the tattoo got it for our very own personal reasons that is none of your business? Maybe, just maybe, it represents something very special and unique to each and every one of us and it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

    If you don't like it, then you don't need to tattoo it on your body. Go ahead and judge whatever it is you think the reason we decided to do this for.
    The truth is you will never really know and you're probably just jealous that we are all lucky enough to have a community of people who love and support us no matter what.
  • Black Helicopter Operations
    Candice - yes, the meth heads are everywhere. The issue is, if you start weeding them out early, they have troubling multiplying like rats.

    As for the Tattoo. I like the Tattoo. I was talking about my own feelings about Edith, not the tattoo.
  • This tattoo is amazing. The pic really grabs the word and what it means. Going to add something like this to my portfolio.

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