You guys are making me nostalgic for the old days. I’ve been around this board, and all it’s iterations, since then. Seemed like less venom in those days? But maybe that’s nostalgia talking, too?
Speaking of Aurora Ave and late 70’s/early 80’s…….Late 70’s I was going to grad/professional school at a place that shall remain unnamed. Stretch knows I refer to it as my “trade school”, or “the Mistake on Montlake”.
Anyway, between my 3rd and 4th years there, I worked a summer job for the Public Health Service at McNeil Island Penitentiary, back when it was a Federal joint. Talk about an “interesting summer”…..
I lived up north of Seattle by a ways at the time because the wife was teaching in North Sno Co. It made for quite a commute that summer. Mill Creek area down to So Tacoma, then out to Steilacoom to catch the boat over to the black rock (as we called it) at 7 AM.
So, on the way back up north in the afternoon, I used to get off the freeway in Seattle and cut over to Aurora so I could meet up with a couple of buddies and started off running around Green Lake and through Woodland Park. We got really going that summer, ended up running all over bleep.
But I guess I had blinders on, or was just too naive/focused? Don’t remember any degree of “local talent”, either on many trips up/down Aurora, or running the “mean streets“ all over the area. Don’t get me wrong - we had heard all about them. Maybe my timing was just wrong? LOL