Green Lake has four fallout shelters, left over from Cold War days. The biggest of the four was built in 1962, under I-5: Trudy Weckworth reported on the shelter’s construction in the September 13, 1962 edition of North Central Outlook: 200-person fallout shelter to be ready by November 1 A large reinforced concrete fallout shelter is being completed under the Freeway, between NE 68th and NE 69th, at Weedin Place NE. Built at a cost of $67,300, the 60-foot circular structure has been planned to provide shelter for 200 persons for two weeks. It will provide kitchen and sleeping facilities, self-contained emergency…
August 2011
August 28, 2011 at 2:40PM
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Model boats at Green Lake Park, 1934 and 2011
Green Lake has long been a destination for model boaters. This photo of boys sailing their model boats in the Green Lake wading pool was taken during the summer of 1934: David Carlos shared the following photo on the MyGreenLake Facebook page today (Sunday, August 28, 2011): “A group of radio-control sailboaters meets the last Sunday of each month around 10 am, at the northeast part of the lake,” David reports.
August 27, 2011 at 2:18PM
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Sugarcomb Hair Salon fashion show and fundraiser for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Sugarcomb Hair Salon (780 N 73rd St) is hosting a fashion show and fundraiser on Saturday, September 24, 2011, 6 p.m. -9 p.m. The event will begin with specialty cocktails and hors d’oeuvres. A DJ will be spinning records and Rick Friel will MC. At 7 p.m. there will be a fall fashion show. The show will feature Kate Burt, who was named ”Emerging Designer for Best Everyday Wear” at this year’s Seamless in Seattle, designer Gwen Stubbs of Lekkerlife Clothing, designer Susan Fedore from Una, and local jewelry designer Birna Sigurbjornsdottir. Hair will be by Sugarcomb Salon and makeup will be by Katrina Kromm. Following the…
August 26, 2011 at 3:48PM
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Open-carry gun activists plan to visit Green Lake Park this weekend
According to Dave Workman, who writes for the Seattle Gun Rights Examiner, a group of open-carry gun activists is planning to visit Green Lake Park on Saturday afternoon around noon, and perhaps on Sunday as well (August 28 and 29, 2011). The visit is reportedly being planned in the wake of a controversial police response to a “person with a gun” dispatch to the park last Sunday. From the Seattle Gun Rights Examiner: Alarmed by an encounter involving a longtime open carry activist and Seattle police at Green Lake last weekend, some open carry activists are planning to visit Green Lake Saturday around noon, and others…
