Monthly Archives: January 2009

OK, probably not as bad as the headline makes it out to be. As everybody knows by now, there was an earthquake yesterday, 4.5 on the Richter Scale, 5:25 am Friday morning, centered about 14 miles northwest of downtown. Honestly, we slept through it, and we’re not sure we would even report it, but all the other neighborhood blogs did, and now we feel left out.

To make up for our deliquency, we will report in reporterly style the following received from the SDOT:

Responding to this morning’s earthquake, the Seattle Department of Transportation (SDOT) is inspecting the city’s elevated …

The Wallingford Neighborhood Office is redesigning their web site and is seeking a kind soul to help them choose the right solution and set it up so their non-technical volunteer staff can maintain it. If you can help on this project, please call the neighborhood office, 632-3165 or email [email protected].…

My parents are visiting their new grandson this weekend (and, incidentally, their son and daughter-in-law). Last night, we had a long and earnest discussion about the concept of the “urban village”, and what qualities Wallingford had that made it qualify for the label. Yes, it has a tree-lined residential area surrounding a small merchant core of mostly-locally-owned shops selling the basic necessities: food, clothing, medicine, building supplies and ice cream, but it wasn’t until my mother approached me earlier this evening and asked me to post a note to the Wallyhood blog for her that I really appreciated how well …

Cathy from Sustainable Wallingford asked us to post link to this survey, sayin’:

The February 4th meeting of the Wallingford Community Council will feature representatives from Seattle Public Utilities, a member of Councilmember Richard Conlin’s staff, and (we hope) an advocate for zero waste design ideas. The meeting will be held from 7:00-9:00 PM in room 202 of the Good Shepherd Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. North.

The survey is intended to collect public feedback on the proposed redesign and rebuild of the North Recycling & Disposal Station. So get your survey on and vote!

Not since Wehrner Von Brown came to the States have we seen such a coup. Wallyhood was dutifully investigating this story, waiting until all the facts were in to report it, but prodding from tipster John has convinced us that we can not wait, we must go public now with the information we have, unanswered questions and all.

Archie McPhee’s is returning to Wallingford.

Yes, that epic maelstrom of Bacon band-aids, Nancy Pearl the Librarian Dolls, remaindered Chinese test-pilot uniforms and one-of-a-kind Pez dispensers is returning from its long exile to its (retail) birthplace: Wallingford.

According to our sources, the …

Wallyhood has generally played the booster for businesses in Wallingford (with the exception of the Erotic Bakery, which was flat out and unnecessarily rude to us, and which also makes lousy tasting cakes). Hey, we even saw some good in condo development.

Our good will does not extend to Pay Day Loans. It is an embarrassment and a blight on the neighborhood. This company and companies like it prey on the least fortunate, charging usurious rates (391% APR!) to those who can least afford it and whose math skills least prepare them to understand exactly how they’re being robbed. As …

A year ago September, we quit our jobs, rented out our house, packed 10 lbs of clothes and 20 lbs of travel guides into our backpacks and headed to Europe. We started in Paris, made our way down through France into Spain, bumped over to Berlin and finished up with a month and a half in Italy, most of the time spent in a rented flat in Florence.

Needless to say, we drank some wine. We’re not connoisseurs by any means, nor are we wealthy, so the bulk of it was rosso della casa, but when rosso della casa is …