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We’re on holiday for a few weeks so posting will be light. We’re leaving this post behind for you to leave comments on while we’re away so you can keep each other entertained. Have fun and be nice. We’ll miss you terribly.

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  1. I wish you posted more before now. And now we’re on holiday. Drat. I’ll have to find a job or something more meaningful to fill the hours…

  2. Update from was-Rainbow: the guys working to clean it up say they heard it’s going to be a balloon/greeting card/gift store “like Hallmark.” Let’s hope they’re wrong. I noticed today that the odds & ends store at 15th & Republican actually has a neon sign saying “helium balloons.” Think that led an eager Hallmark franchisee to conclude that there’s a great demand for them in our neighborhood? Sigh.

  3. Does anyone know what’s up with the coyote warning signs along Aloha heading east?

    My dog and I came face to face with one a few weeks back at about 5 am at Aloha and 11th Ave E, so they seem to be wide-ranging.

  4. Good gosh. We leave town and Hallmark 15th Ave style and coyotes move in.

    (just missed my connecting flight so thank goodness i have a neighborhood blog to play with here in the Top One Lounge)

    The Like Hallmark store sounds a tad disappointing. I tried but never succeeded in connecting with the woman who runs the Holiday Gift Store about the status of her business. I wonder if she knows anything about this.

    As for the coyotes, only slightly surprised we have these amazing canines living in our midst. The Arboretum and Interlaken parks have lots of hidden away places in heavy brush. Wikipedia has some cool info about coyotes in urban environments. Sounds like we have a new entrant for the next CHS Tourney. Surely coyotes could dethrone the squirrels. What do the signs say? Hopefully something about locking up your cats!

  5. Oh, another thing… if you are looking for something to post about, we’re curious to hear what you like about the blog, what we should more of, what we should do less of, what we should do that we don’t already do, etc.

  9. Brand spankin’ new to your blog and I love it, mostly because of your obvious love of Fuel! I made my maiden voyage to Fuel this past Saturday afternoon, which may have been the perfect moment to catch Fuel in all its summery glory: late day sun filtering through leafy trees, painting mesmerizing shadows on the floor.

    And true to the grassroots PR, the barista I chatted with was really, really nice.

    This was a truly nirvanic cafe experience, the kind you can only hope for, not plan for.

    Also I love your blog because you write about my the most soulful neighborhood in Seattle: Cap Hill between 15th & 19th. I used to live there, in many different locations. And this weekend and your blog is so captivating, you’ve actually got me thinking about moving back!

    Have fun on vacation!

  10. While J/K are away you can check out some Cap Hill info at:

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/capitolhillnews/

    or perhaps the (rarely active):

    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/15thAve_Community/

    or (shameless self promotion) for those nearer Madison, you can find less inspired info at:

    http://millerparkseattle.blogspot.com/

    such as:

    http://millerparkseattle.blogspot.com/2007/07/secret-firework-spot.html

    Happy July 4th

    Andrew

    PS: Was it really that revolutionary a war?

  13. Something for neighbors to watch out for: door-to-door magazine subscription sales. This morning a clever young man told us he lived on 18th (we’re on 16th) with the so-and-so family and would we buy a magazine subscription to support his college preparations or some such. His mother made him do it. Checkbook in hand, I realized (well, my wife realized) his story was changing. He actually was visiting from Ohio and he gets “bonus points” if we pay cash and “a man” picks up his receipts each night and so on. He referred to a neighbor by name, so we went and talked to her. He had told her he lived on 17th and that her purchase benefited Children’s Hospital. These guys are an annual neighborhood ritual. Send them packing. You can even call the cops.

  15. The kid is oart of a summer scam. Two years ago there were vans of kids form Tacoma, mostly African descent, who were dumped in Seattle in the AM at “good places” with similar stories. These kids were underage and the SPD closed them down.

    If anyone is looking for talk talk about local politics I do some of that over at SeattleJew
    Most relevant may be a recent long post on how we are all being ripped off by Paul Allen’s Sluville development.

  17. Redballoon on 15th? In that big a space? I can’t imagine it lasting. We’ll be having this same conversation by next summer.

  19. I don’t know…isn’t there a Red Balloon in a pretty big space on 7th and Olive?

    Granted there is a much larger population to serve downtown, but that store sells lots of gifts, trinkets, toys, wrapping paper, etc.

  20. I’d love to see a movie theater in the was-Rainbow spot. A movie theater that serves beer, like the theaters in Portland. It would be an insanely popular place. I know it. Someone make it happen, please!

  21. Jonathan, you know we have one of those theaters already, right? Central Cinema? Granted the movies aren’t exactly second run, but still.

  22. i am so bummed about this. what a useless retail concept. what a waste of space. can we organize a picket, a protest, a boycott, something?

  23. i didn’t realize that baloons alone could support a store, let-alone a product category. i’m so disappointed. this is really disheartening.

    don’t be fooled by the lot size – these guys deliver all over the place. they will be suppored by citywide business – they don’t depend on in-store business alone. this is just one brick-and-mortar outlet of worldwide operation that relies on ecommerce as well.

    what does one do about something like this? let’s start a grass-roots neighborhood movement or something, dammit.