November 17, 2016 - It's Never Just Another Ferry Ride

A commute across Puget Sound may be pretty routine, but there always seems to be something worth seeing.

November 10, 2016 - Georgetown Trailer Park Mall

Behind Georgetown's Star Brass Works Lounge is the Georgetown Trailer Park Mall, "a membership-based sustainable retail model focused on the promotion and advancement of sustainable, locally sourced, up-cycled, reused and handmade products."  The mall, founded in 2010, is open every weekend year round.  In addition to the 8 vintage trailers, vendors utilize pop up tents and tables to sell their wares.

Georgetown, Seattle's oldest neighborhood is located south of downtown Seattle.  It is a hipster-industrial-warehouse-arts district with small enclaves of homes dotted among freeways and byways and warehouses and small office buildings and hotels that at one time or another had rooms available by the hour.  While the Denny party is more famous of the families that began the settlement that would grow to become Seattle, the Collins Party actually filed their claims in for land in 1851 a week before the Denny party landed at Alki Point.  Consequently, Georgetown lays claim to being Seattle's first neighborhood.

A staple of Georgetown has always been booze, beer and brothels.  In 1883, the brewery that evolved into the Seattle Brewing and Malting Company, the sixth largest brewery in the world, was located in Georgetown.  Georgetown incorporated in 1904 as a response to a growing Seattle and a law that prohibited the sale and manufacture of intoxicating liquors within one mile.  Georgetown's saloons boomed with as many as 24 operating 24 hours a day.  

While there may no longer be brothels, the neighborhood has seen a rebirth of bars, breweries, distilleries and restaurants located in century-old buildings.