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Eastlake home sails away -- across Puget Sound
Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^
| Monday, June 5, 2006
| KERY MURAKAMI
Posted on 06/05/2006 11:17:56 PM PDT by skeptoid
Daphne Lee-Larson said goodbye to her house Sunday morning.
Actually, she wished it a bon voyage.
She was looking up at the second-floor bedroom window of 3218 Eastlake Ave. E. and remembered how she and her husband once had to climb up to it on a ladder when it was bedtime because they were having the ground floor resanded.
3218 Eastlake Ave. E., though, was no longer on Eastlake Avenue East.
The yellow, 3,000- square-foot house had been lifted and then rolled on a dolly with wheels as big as airplane tires from the spot where it had sat since 1908 (since before there was even an Eastlake Avenue East), down to within a hundred feet from where a barge waited to carry it to the San Juan Islands
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: barge; housemover; lakeunion; pugetsound; seattle
I really enjoyed the
slideshow of this unique housemoving and the article is good, too. What's the current term to describe this type of story, i.e. 'something you don't see every day'?
A tugboat pulls a barge carrying the 3,000-square-foot house across Lake Union, bound for the Ballard Locks and, ultimately, Shaw Island in the San Juans. (June 04, 2006)
Joshua Trujillo/Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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posted on
06/05/2006 11:18:03 PM PDT
by
skeptoid
To: skeptoid
Wow, that's amazing. "Something you don't see everyday" is good; Or how about: I Think I Can, I Think I Can ?
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posted on
06/05/2006 11:35:58 PM PDT
by
Walkenfree
("Aspire to Inspire before you expire")
To: skeptoid
It'd be a LOT easier to just buy a houseboat..
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posted on
06/06/2006 4:31:48 AM PDT
by
ken5050
(GWB, Reagan, Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, freed hundreds of millions.# of Nobel PeacePrizes: ZERO)
To: Libertina; Maynerd; Bobsvainbabblings; moneypenny; Kaylee Frye; Clintonfatigued; wallcrawlr; ...
Say WA? Evergreen State ping
FReepmail sionnsar if you want on or off this ping list.
Ping sionnsar if you see a Washington state related thread.
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posted on
06/06/2006 8:01:11 AM PDT
by
sionnsar
(†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Iran Azadi | SONY: 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0urs)
To: skeptoid; sionnsar
My mother in law was telling me about the house in the middle of Lake Union. She lives across the street from the house boats on the east side of the lake. I thought she was nuts. I see she was correct but imho she is still nuts.
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posted on
06/06/2006 8:09:05 AM PDT
by
Horatio Gates
(Dial M for Moonbat)
To: skeptoid
Well, at least they didn't choose to take it up I-5 during Rush Hour!!!
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posted on
06/06/2006 8:42:23 AM PDT
by
goodnesswins
( "the left can only take power through deception." (and it seems Hillary & Company are the masters)
To: skeptoid
That'$ gonna co$t $omething.
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posted on
06/06/2006 10:39:47 AM PDT
by
GretchenM
(What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul? Please meet my friend, Jesus.)
To: skeptoid
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posted on
06/06/2006 12:57:19 PM PDT
by
Libertina
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