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To: TH who wrote (173902)	12/27/2008 6:06:28 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

Yes, West Seattle. He has an amazing view of the city and you can watch all the ships come in from this large stone deck. I have a view of downtown but you have lean a little to see it. <g> He is right at the end of the street, so no one can ever build in front of him. He has mumbled something about extorting money from dozens of neighbors behind him by threatening to put a second story on. He would bum out at least 25 homeowners if he did that and wack all their property values. If I went up a second story, I could clear the roof line of the house under construction. Its why I bought this house. Because of the spectacular view, the neighborhood is almost forced to upgrade......and it is. In an earlier life, it was more middle class but slowly but surely its becoming upper middle class as people go up a story to capture the view. My house is one of the smallest on the street...which I prefer. They take pity and send over a lot of good XMAS cookies. <g> He just got one of those once-in-lifetime deals. He married a girl from LA and there was no debate about where they would live. She got a transfer from within her company to move to Seattle. Is he from Detroit? I was offered a job in Seattle shortly out of school as well as in LA. Unfortunately, I took the LA job. I wish I hadn't now. I paid a big price for that selection.

To: TH who wrote (173902)	12/27/2008 6:17:02 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 306849

Did you see this article that Lizzie posted? Message 25276561

To: TH who wrote (173902)	12/27/2008 7:05:13 PM
From: kathtoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to 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.