Posted on 03/16/2022 10:19:59 PM PDT by DallasBiff
38 years doesn't seem that long ago. Here's a KCTS-9 story showing how to impress your out of town guests with a bus/walking tour. Most importantly, see the changes in downtown Seattle. The old Monorail terminus, only one Westin Tower, and hardly any skyscrapers
Every city is becoming a hell hole.
I was born here, and I’ve lived here (in the area, if not the city proper) all my life, long before Seattle became what it is now both politically and socially. I stay here because of my family, my children and grandchildren. I can’t stand the FR bigots who judge me because of where I live.
Just watch the tv show ‘Frasier’ based in Seattle.
I wonder if the show would have been if shot today?
Under the viaduct in seattle back then.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o7h5KfJxeQE
Seattle was not all great then, the heroin was starting to flood in
As nice as it looked, Ted Bundy and the Green River Killer were on the loose.
It seems downright quaint at this point.
Years ago I had hoped to someday visit Seattle and Portland; I guess CHAZ got that completely out of my system.
“Catch the elevator, an outrageous two dollars!”
In 1980 my Seattle cousins were still wearing bell-bottom corduroys with their flannel shirts. I thought they were so backwards. Then ten years later, everyone was wearing flannel and corduroy.
I'm not a bigot, but that was so nancy pelosi of you to say of me.
I was just commenting on the cultural rot that has set in Seattle.
In 1980 Seattle looked like a nice city with beautiful scenery.
Do us all a favor and stay in Seattle, we don’t need more liberals moving to conservative safe havens.
They would probably double down and move it to San Fran, where Frasier is a black transgender blogger instead of radio psychiatrist…
(I still watch Frasier reruns)
Man, Steve took criticism of Seattle quite personally.
Disregard the comments that tell you to stay in Seattle. They’re merely ankle biters who are not representative of the vast majority of FReepers on this website that believe in life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Does anybody have a sense of humor or the ability to recognize when someone is saying something in jest these days? People constantly chastise liberals for being soft or call them snowflakes for being easily offended. Yet I find many adult conservatives being just as soft and sensitive.
I was born and lived her most of my life too. I am amazed at how much people on FR are turning on each other since the invasion started.
I live north of Seattle and moved my office here ten years ago. Lived in Seattle for a while in the early 70s and had a small office in Seattle for 35 years.
I stay here, like you, because of children, grandchildren and business.
It is very sad how Seattle fell into Dante’s Hell.
Every major urban city controlled by socialist democrats either is, or is in progress of becoming, a hellhole.
I’ve been on the Oregon coast for a long time. Of late, there have been very hard left types moving here from fly-over country, trying to lecture us on what backwater racists we are. The Pacific Northwest has no monopoly on lefties.
In 1973-1974, I worked a lot in Seattle, Tacoma, Everett…and further south in Longview, further west in Port Angeles, and further East in Wenatchee. I really enjoyed my time in the PNW back then. I went back to Seattle for a business trip around 2015 and was so saddened to see the changes, all for the worse. We drove through Portland last year and it was worse than ever. Homeless camps extending 10 to 15 miles south of the city on I-5.
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