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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index
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To: TH who wrote (173902)12/27/2008 7:05:13 PM
From: kathtooRead Replies (1) of 306849
 
West Seattle, grew up there, still go to visit family/friends.

Loved it in the 70's. Road bike to alki along beach drive and Lincoln Park was my backyard. My dad told me that same guy that designed Lincoln Park did Central Park in NY. Don't know if that's true.

The city view stuff used to be a little less desirable because of Bethlehem steel plant at delridge, but that changed when they put on the big air quality discharge system (forget what its called). Lots of the homes facing east have been upgraded with lots of new view construction. There were a lot of homes built in WS after wwii. I'm not sure what year the bridge was built. The high school was built in the early 1900's.

I went into an old cottage along alki the other day. It still had the original tongue and groove wide planking on the walls and fir wood ceilings. It's a tear down though. There were a couple parcels for sale that would be ideal for a condo developer, but lousy timing for the owners in my opinion. Most of the stuff originally built on Alki were summer homes/cottages for the well to do that lived on Capital Hill and Queen Anne. You can still see many of the original cottage type bungalow homes a few blocks off the beach in between alki and admiral way, and there's the old Homestead (log home). They took a ferry to WS back then (no bridge). There was also a big amusement park and swim area called luna park way back when, way before my time. I never even knew about it. It was a forgotten part of West Seattle History, but has come to light again in the last few years. It burned down. I think Spud's fish and chip's has photos on the wall that goes to the upstairs dining area.
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