More Photos of Rainier Cold Storage Brew House

You've seen many of these shots before, but I have a better camera now. Thanks to Jim Harmon of Sabey for letting me in this morning to take these photos. And a belated thanks to whoever decided to paint the walls a greenish blue. That color is a great background for all the rusty iron.

These photos are all of the Brew House portion of the complex. The Brew House is just north of the Stock House, which is the section that Sabey plans to demolish and redevelop. Sabey will unveil their plans for the site at a public meeting this coming Wednesday, October 24, at 5:30 p.m. at the Bottling Plant (right across from Calamity Jane's on Airport Way). Please come and comment or just listen.

Also, if you'd like to see this place for yourself, you have an opportunity next Saturday, October 27. Either attend the Georgetown Haunted History Tour (this will be the last stop of the tour), or just come to the Brew House for a Halloween event by the Theater Off Jackson and Circus Contraption. Five bucks gets you into the tour and the Brew House event, or you can pay five bucks for just the Brew House thing. Wear a costume and bring ID if you want beer. And say hi if you're feeling friendly (look for the super-tall, dark-haired Viking).

Photos from Stellar Tonight

Lucretia the bartender, for whom I've sometimes been mistaken, told me to go take pictures of Tippi Hedren in the window.

Buggy: New Baby/Kid Store on Beacon Hill

Buggy is located on the west side of Beacon Avenue, about a block south of Galaxie, and is open Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Garden Bloom Day Photos (One Day Late)

My Gastronom

Today my memory was jogged of my year in Ukraine by this photo from Kiev (explanatory caption below).

Police officers in riot gear detain activists of Natalia Vitrenko's Progressive Socialist Party who tried to break a cordon of a rally to mark the 65th anniversary of the anti-Soviet Ukrainian Insurgent Army in downtown Kiev on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2007. The anniversary and calls to recognize the anti-Soviet partisans as World War II veterans has divided Ukraine, with the more nationalistic west supporting recognition, and the Russian-speaking east opposing it. Hostility runs deep because in the war's early years, the anti-Soviet partisans aligned themselves with the Nazis, seeing the invasion as a way to get rid of the Soviet regime. (October 14, 2007 -- Associated Press)

And I remembered that the grocery store in the background was my grocery store, the Centralny Gastronom on Kreshchatik. Here's a photo I took of it nine years ago, in more peaceful days.

Beacon Hill: No Great Shakes

According to a story in today's PI, it looks like Beacon Hill, Rainier Valley and the middle of West Seattle are going to be the best places in Seattle to ride out the next big earthquake.