Wallingford’s Paul Dorpat recently ran a fun article in his Seattle Now and Then series in the Seattle Times: How Wallingford Got Its Name. Not just from the developer, former city councilman and Green Lake resident John Wallingford, but primarily from the Wallingford Car Line trolley that ran through this section.
For more historical photos and background, Paul has a great article on his web site, Section Lines on Wallingford Hill. Photo at right, from that article, is now the Tully’s building, soon to be the CVS.
(Thanks for the tip, Taylor Moss. Photo from Paul’s web site, where it is courtesy of Lawton Gowey, presumably taken by Lawton’s father.)
There is a gentleman who has an art studio near 55th and Meridian. The art studio is where popcorn was sold for the theater once next door. The gentleman, Bill, lives in an adjoining house that is sort of barricaded by a tall fence near the sidewalk. He told me that the bus route number 16 was also of that name when trolleys ran the same route. He explained that the name TANGLETOWN derived from the overhead trolley cable poles coming off the track and tangling right at that intersection.
GREAT idea! Will do today if it is still there.
I think it’s a great name.
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