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Green Lake: Seattle's Tourist Hood

What do you think? (6 Comments) August 3, 2009 at 12:26AM

We are declaring the birth a new term: tourist hood.

A tourist hood is much like a tourist town, but the tourists are not out-of-towners.  They are out-of-neighborhooders.

ROS (Rest of Seattle), we love you.  We really do.  Especially when you are extra cute and you smile at us as you rollerblade past.  But it does have to be noted that there are a lot of you, and you don’t really get how to navigate that crazy intersection (you know the one).

Most importantly, as a tourist hood, we don’t really have an identity of our own, beyond how ROS sees us.  So, we ask you here, Green Lakers: who are you?  Yoga-pant-wearing, baby-stroller-pushing, dog-walking, starbucks-drinking volleyball champ?  Or, something a little different?

Intersection of Stone Way, Green Lake Way, and 50th Street, 1951
Creative Commons License photo credit: Seattle Municipal Archives

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What do you think? (6 Comments)
  • eye_shuh

    I live more in Ravenna/Udist than Greenlake, but you hit the nail on the head. You know, I'm not even entirely sure that people who actually live near Greenlake go to Greenlake. It's too full of uptight joggers and angry bicyclers. I think the real residents are the ones sitting at the Bar & Grill joking about how people look like their dogs.

  • amalala

    For real. I lived in Maple Leaf and would walk down 5th Ave to run around the lake…but at one point I did live in Green Lake (actually, it was more Wallingford…) I don't know. Green Lake is fabulous…but I don't think the residents are the ones sitting at the GL bar & grill – they've got to be the ones in the Little Red Hen.

  • http://eye-shuh.blogspot.com eye_shuh

    I live more in Ravenna/Udist than Greenlake, but you hit the nail on the head. You know, I'm not even entirely sure that people who actually live near Greenlake go to Greenlake. It's too full of uptight joggers and angry bicyclers. I think the real residents are the ones sitting at the Bar & Grill joking about how people look like their dogs.

  • amalala

    For real. I lived in Maple Leaf and would walk down 5th Ave to run around the lake…but at one point I did live in Green Lake (actually, it was more Wallingford…) I don't know. Green Lake is fabulous…but I don't think the residents are the ones sitting at the GL bar & grill – they've got to be the ones in the Little Red Hen.