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At Harvard and Pine, new owners at Pelicana, lines at Phê, and Indian at Cafe Ashiana

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(Image: Pelicana USA)

Capitol Hill’s restaurant sale season continues with a “business as usual” transition at the corner of Pine and Harvard. Recent filings show the corner’s Korean Fried Chicken joint Pelicana has changed hands.

The new owners Hye Ri Park and Taehwan Lee are bringing experience from the world of teriyaki to the fried chicken joint. Seattle food and drink entrepreneur J Hwang opened Pelicana — and helped usher in Capitol Hill’s new KFC era —  in the former home of Bill’s Off Broadway in 2021.

The bones of the old Bill’s make Pelicana a pretty decent hangout in addition to its Ban Ban chicken, cheese sticks, and Bburingkle fries.

Pelicana is beginning its sixth year on Capitol Hill with more passersby than usual. The corner has been busy with some long, viral video-stoked lines for neighboring Vietnamese coffee shop Phê. Continue reading →

Seattle Counseling Service — ‘oldest LGBTQ-focused community mental health agency in the world’ — finds new home off Capitol Hill

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The last moving day at SCS was 16 years ago (Image: Seattle Counseling Services)

By Lena Mercer

For 51 years, Seattle Counseling Service has been an integral part of the city’s LGBTQ+ community providing mental health and general wellness services. That has meant being part of the Capitol Hill community, too.  In the early 2000s, SCS moved into the Melrose Pine building at 1216 Pine. In the middle of a pandemic crisis, the organization has now completed a move to a larger location off the Hill that will allow it to expand its services and provide help to more people in Seattle.

“Expansion was the main factor, being able to provide, and evolve as the needs of the community expanded as well,” SCS’s Al Guerra said.

But their new home for “the oldest LGBTQ-focused community mental health agency in the world” in the Sixth & Lenora Building also represents yet another clear sign that Seattle’s LGBTQ communities are spread far beyond Capitol Hill. Continue reading →

CHS Re:Take | The 10 on Pine and other forgotten buses of Capitol Hill

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Blend of 1970 and 2016 at 15th and Pine

10 or 11 on 15th and Pine, 1970 and 2016

It’s been five months since Link’s Capitol Hill Station opened. Can you feel the difference? Everyone is walking towards the station. Bus stops around it seem emptier in the morning. Train cars keep getting more full.

We’re so caught up learning to dodge bicycle tires and stay upright on swaying trains, perhaps some of us already forgot that the 10 used to run to Pine Street on 15th. The 10’s reroute is linked to the return of rail service to Broadway for the rest of time.

This view below from 1970 strains to look back to the end of Capitol Hill’s original rail service. The coach pictured here was Seattle Transit #615. That bus was purchased in 1940, the year after Seattle Municipal Railway was rechristened Seattle Transit and embarked on the destruction of the streetcar system. Seattle Transit purchased 100 coaches from local company Pacific Car and Foundry (now PACCAR) and 135 from Twin Coach.

#615 Route 10 Capitol Hill outbound 15th & Pine Jul 19 1970

Coach #615 on Route 10 Capitol Hill headed to Volunteer Park, 15th & Pine. Jul 19, 1970

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