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Sunset Demo Tuesday! =(

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Started 3 years ago by ballardmike
Latest reply from Nora Bell

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ballardmike

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Word is dozers are in place and ready to roll in the a.m.

http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?comments&v=1323489488278#/group.php?v=wall&gid=241842686142

Posted 3 years ago #
onederfullone

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Tent city Ballard coming soon.

Posted 3 years ago #
Nora Bell

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So, does that mean they're finally ready to build something? Or are we going to be left with another concrete hole in the ground?
As much as I miss Sunset Bowl it's become really sad to look at in it's current crumbling state.

Posted 3 years ago #
just_another_norwegian

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Lake Sunset, coming soon.

Posted 3 years ago #
Silver

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Thanks for the heads-up! I'll be home in the morning and I might just have to go over there with my camera!

Posted 3 years ago #
Tim

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Just got back. My flash card is full. A group of employees that used to work there is waiting to watch the demo. Hopefully I can empty my camera and get back down there before is starts.

-Tim

Posted 3 years ago #
Observant

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Hey tim, I saw you there! Yes, the big tractors are being unloaded and it looks like they are about to roll...

Posted 3 years ago #
JM

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Here come the rats!

Posted 3 years ago #
ballardmike

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Sorry - bad link to start...

http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=241842686142&ref=ts

Posted 3 years ago #
Barney Stinson

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Like someone else said, this is the only change in Ballard that has actually bothered me. Far to often I find myself saying "I really wish Sunset Bowl was still open"

Posted 3 years ago #
julesage

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i saw the group of folks there this morning too! Barney, I am with you! Just this past weekend me and some friends were all saying, "We wish sunset was still an option!" :)

long live old school bowling aleeys!!

Posted 3 years ago #
Tim

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They've postponed the demolition until 8:00 am tomorrow.

-Tim

Posted 3 years ago #
BallardENTP

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http://www.myballard.com/2010/01/20/a-final-farewell-to-sunset-bowl/

If that last quote is true, kudos to Avalon.

Posted 3 years ago #
ballardmike

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Time to bury the bloated, rotten corpse that we used to love. =|

Posted 3 years ago #
BlackSheep

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True, BallardENTP and ballardmike. We know it isn't coming back, and it's only painful to look at in its current state. Not to mention it is a magnet for behavior we don't want.

Posted 3 years ago #
Tim

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Just got back, the demo is still in progress if anyone still wants to go see it.

-Tim

Posted 3 years ago #
Mamasings

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We just got back, too. As sad as it is, my three year old was very impressed with the big crunching excavator. And it was nice to run into a fellow MyBallardite - hi, Thatgirl! Anyone else there this morning/afternoon?

Posted 3 years ago #
Mamasings

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BTW, as of about a half hour ago they had finished demolishing the restaurant section and looked like they were going for some offices north of that area next. I noticed that they were separating out some large wooden beams. Anyone know if they have plans to repurpose any of those materials?

It was also very touching to see a large group of former employees and patrons there to watch. I overheard one fellow saying that a friend of his had already said his goodbyes, and just couldn't bear to come out today. One really got a sense of how much that building meant to the community.

Posted 3 years ago #
picocailin

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Mamasings, I think I may have been taking pictures behind you? Just uploaded the photos up at http://www.flickr.com/photos/24800600@N07/ and I may or may not have gotten a few of your boy ... whoever's it was, he was just so adorable and I couldn't help taking a picture of him watching. Any of you, feel free to use those photos as "memories...."

Posted 3 years ago #
Mamasings

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Not my boy, but a very cute little guy! Hope someone claims him, because those pictures are adorable. Saw lots of little boys drooling over the job of excavator operator...Mine was the one in a blue peacoat with red boots sitting right at the opening in the fence for a while. I was holding a little girl in a white fuzzy coat.

Love those pictures - thanks for sharing!

Posted 3 years ago #
cobaltblue

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At the risk of going a bit off-topic (again): it's not the Denny's restaurant I miss. It's the building that housed the Denny's. I love eccentric architecture and there are not that many examples of the Googie style around here. It makes me sad that this one is gone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Googie_architecture

I cried when the Twin Teepees burned down.

Oh yeah and I remember when that Denny's was Manning's Cafeteria. Does that give me street cred or what?

Back to Sunset Bowl: Does anyone know what happened to the SUNSET letters (great font)? I hope the former owners have them.

Hey, I can stick to a topic when I want to!

Posted 3 years ago #
allisonw

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I was sad about losing the Googie too. That building had good bones.My idea was to build the condos around it and make something cool with the Denny's building. Urban renewal can have upsides. :)

Posted 3 years ago #
Tim

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Does anybody have a picture of the Denny's for those of us who weren't around before it was taken down?

-Tim

Posted 3 years ago #
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Ballard Denny's

Posted 3 years ago #
sunset

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When I saw the video here of the demolition beginning, I was sad. Many years of memories for many. I bowled in a league there, went there as a teenager. It is the one place I was sad to go to big corporation - who are now not going to do anything for now because of economy - is what I was told. So yeah, Sunset Lake will soon be there.

Posted 3 years ago #
Nora Bell

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Colbaltblue - Re: the Sunset letters. I heard somewhere (maybe here) that they were auctioned off.

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