I took the No 10 bus to downtown, and here are a few pictures.
On the No 10 bus and Approaching the stop at Pine At & 9th Ave. Hello to the red Tesla Model 3 (it’s a 2022 model). John Mellencamp (he’s 71) is coming to the Paramount Theatre. It made me look up and play ‘Hurt So Good’ on YouTube. 😁We now have our own Uniqlo* clothing store here in downtown Seattle, in the Macy’s building (there have long been Uniqlo stores in Southcenter Mall and in Bellevue Square). *Japanese casual wear designer, manufacturer and retailer.The Terminal Sales Building on 1st Avenue is an 11-story historical landmark designed in a terra cotta and brick Gothic-inspired mode by architect Henry Birman. Built in 1923 in an open loft format, it served as a sales and display warehouse that serviced department stores in Seattle’s retail core for decades. [From website historylink.tours]Here’s the windows of the Patagonia store (outdoor clothing and gear). Hanford is a site in southeast Washington State where 9 nuclear reactors had been built during World War II and the Cold War to produce plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program. To date 6 of the 9 reactors have been cocooned (sealed off). Cocooning lasts for 75 years, and allows radiation levels to decay to a safer level for future dismantling and disposal. Leaks of radioactive material have already occurred, though. Every now and then there seems to be another exposé on King5 TV about the challenges with the cleanup of Hanford. During the World War II and Cold War years, the site’s focus was on plutonium production. Now, efforts are geared at cleanup of one of the most contaminated nuclear sites in the world.The corner of Virginia St and 1st Avenue is the site of a bistro and full bar today. I see on Google Maps that the State Route 99 tunnel’s route happens to run by right below it.Here’s Second Avenue between Pike & Pine. The brown building on the left is going to demolished at some point not too far into the future to make way for a 46-story, 531-unit apartment building with retail stores.The State Hotel building on Second Avenue was constructed in 1904 by the Eitel brothers David and Fred, and called the Eitel building. It was renovated in 2017-19 at a cost of $16 million. I had dawdled too long on Second Avenue, and here comes my No 10 bus rushing by— the one that was supposed to take me home. I ended up walking back to Capitol Hill !Welp. The sun’s gone again, and it’s getting cold. Time to go home. The site of the erstwhile Starbucks on Olive Way now has fencing and barbed wire to keep the riffraff out.
