Have you ever looked through the Seattle Municipal Archives’ photostream on Flickr?  They dropped this gem into the CHS’s flickr pool showing Volunteer Park a century ago.  Amazing.

Legalize Frostitution, Cupcake Royale’s blog, shows photos of the process inside the storefront at 1111 Pike.  Check em out.  Cupcakes are coming to the Hill very soon!

Watch out, a new ice cream store is coming to the Hill!   Old School Frozen Custard will open up on Pike between 13th and 14th (across from the BOA parking lot, the old Square Room space).  I honestly have never tried them before, but it sounds perfect for this coming summer.  They feature frozen custard made fresh throughout the day.  They’ll also offer hot dogs for lunch, sundaes, milkshakes, smoothies, and floats.  I’ve been dying for a place besides Dicks that makes a good milkshake, so that will be the first thing I try when they open. 

Molly Moon is also slated to open in the Oddfellows building. Must be time to update this list. Any other places that offer ice cream?

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Overheard staff at Liberty Bar today discussing expanding their space into the florist shop next door.  Not the entire florist shop, mind you, apparently the florist isn’t going anywhere (which is great, I like them a lot).  Details to follow I’m sure. 

Due to needing crutches for 3 1/2 more weeks, I bought a UW parking pass for the month of January and now commute to the UW 5 days a week.  I leave at 7:50am and it seems silly to me to drive to school alone.  I’m wondering if anyone living between 15th/Pine and say, 23rd and Aloha would like a ride to the UW (or the 520/Montlake connection) in the mornings? I see a ton of folks waiting at the bus stops along E. John and 23rd and thought that I might see if anyone needed/wanted a ride.  I’m not looking for gas money.  To me, it’s a waste to drive alone every day and I cannot wait to get back on my bicycle/bus to school starting in February.

I was also thinking that if anyone else was looking to share a vehicle (maybe if you commute to Bellevue or Northgate), this might be a good place to advertise that.  Maybe this won’t work…there are programs out there (Rideshare for one) that people would have looked up already if they had the idea already but it never hurts to ask.

8 and 11 are currently canceled. 

Snow routes:  10, 12, 14, 43,60 Cap Hill to VA only

Regular routes:  48

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Starting at 12:30pm today, there’s going to be a huge public snowball fight at Cal Anderson. Bundle up, grab a thermos of hot chocolate or coffee, and head on down!  (Will someone please take pictures of said event?  I cannot make it on crutches)

According to a recent PI article Lowell Elementary will be spared from the chopping block.

Lowell would continue to enroll about half the elementary APP students; the other half would move to Thurgood Marshall Elementary…

…Montlake Elementary’s building is in poor condition, so Goodloe-Johnson proposes moving those students to Lowell. The move also would let special-education students currently at Lowell attend school with general-education students.

Good news for the Capitol Hill neighborhood.  With the apparent influx of families moving to the hill, these kids need somewhere close to attend school.  Though North Seattle is fighting overcrowding and South Seattle is seeing under-enrollment, we’ve been stuck slightly in the middle.  Remember though, people still need to give their input and be active in this great debate.  Details, of course, in this CHS thread.

According to Capitol Hill Triangle, the Obama Mural on E John St has been restored.  Let’s hope the taggers show a little respect this time around. 

Speaking of tagging, there was some talk a while back about possibly asking neighborhood stores to restrict the same of spray paint.  Another way that may be easier to help control the persistence of tagging is to be aware of what’s going on in the neighborhood.  Keep an eye out, report taggers to the police, install lights near popular tagging places, and keeping our neighborhood clean.  A study, echoing the “broken windows” theory, has shown that the present of graffiti (not art, but plain graffiti) tends to raise the persistence of littering and theft.