Two weeks ago (April 5, 2010), we reported that the Green Lake Baskin-Robbins had gone dark. Great news! The ice cream shop, a Green Lake fixture for more than 35 years, is once again open for business. We received the following note via our tips form: Hello Greenlake Neigborhood! Baskin-Robbins is now re-open! We opened on Friday April 17th. Please stop by and see us. Thanks again for all of the support through the years. We hope to see you all. photo credit: TheDeliciousLife
April 2010
April 19, 2010 at 8:55AM
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Green Lake’s segregated past
By Sable Verity Author’s note: A few weeks ago I mentioned Seattle’s often unknown history of neighborhood segregation in one of my articles, which was read by the editor of My Green Lake. She asked if I would write a guest post outlining how Green Lake was affected, and I agreed; so here it is… North Green Lake neighborhood, 1953 photo credit: Seattle Municipal Archives Many who live in Seattle, Washington – and those who view it from afar – do not think racism and discrimination are issues that minorities have ever been faced with here, yet history proves otherwise;…
April 18, 2010 at 11:09PM
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The Green Lake bubble
The Tofu Hunter published an interesting post yesterday (Saturday, April 18, 2010). The post, a review of the Greenlake Bar & Grill (7200 E Green Lake Drive N), offered the following observations about the Green Lake neighborhood: I don’t spend enough time hanging out at Greenlake, and was a little surprised by the reality of the parade of fit, clean, fashionable exercisers doing their thing all around. We were surrounded by elements of urbanity, restaurants, bars, cars, lots of people, etc, but all of the dirty stuff had been scraped away leaving just a gleaming, safe-feeling, eco-conscious bubble of Lulu Lemon,…
April 18, 2010 at 10:18PM
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Hundreds of kid-created pinwheels at Green Lake Park
Today (Sunday, April 18, 2010), Greenwood CoolMom installed hundreds of kid-created pinwheels at Green Lake Park to celebrate Earth Week. CoolMom, in partnership with the Sierra Club, held the event as a call for an end to coal use for energy in Washington State and a transition to clean energy and green jobs.
