No, we have not called it quits. We're just taking a bit of a break here at Madison Park Blogger. We'll be back in all our snarkiness early in the New Year. We appreciate your suppo...
Friday, December 20, 2013
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Dramatic police action ends wellAt about 8:00 pm on Saturday, November 30, multiple police vehicles descended on Madison Park, lights flashing and sirens blaring. The squad cars converged at the intersection of 43rd Avenue E. and E. Madison Street, police exiting their vehicles in anticipation of major action. The officers believed that an armed and dangerous criminal suspect was on the loose in the area; so they had good reason for creating...
Monday, December 2, 2013
Aftermath of teardown at E. Newton and 42nd Ave. E.Believe it or not, in the topsy turvy Madison Park real estate market there are now more houses under construction than there are houses for sale. And while there’s probably only a tenuous cause-and-effect relationship between these two data points (the majority of the new houses are apparently being built by people who intend to live in them), this high-construction/low-inventory situation...
Monday, November 25, 2013
We were sorry to learn today from Leslie Maeda, Susan Fujita's daughter, of the death of her mother:"Susan passed away peacefully at the age of 73 years young on November 17th, 2013 following a short, but courageous battle with lung cancer. Susan was born to Ichiro and Nobuko Hayashida on Bainbridge Island and graduated from Bainbridge Island High School in 1958. She then went on to pursue a lifelong passion of cosmetology. As co-owner of Choppers...
Tuesday, November 19, 2013
As we've reported in the past, tagging is an ongoing problem in the neighborhood, but the scale of last night's vandalism is perhaps unprecedented. Community Council member Bob Edmiston reported in an email this morning that he counted 40 separate graffiti incidents in the "flat" area of Madison Park, principally in alleys between E. Lee Street to the south and the Edgewater Apartments (E. McGilvra Street) to the north. Garage doors were the...
Monday, November 11, 2013
Our newly renovated neighborhood fire station, located at 633 32nd Avenue E., will be holding a re-dedication and open house on Saturday, November 16, from 11 am until 1 pm. Two years worth of rehabilitation work has, presumably, rectified the seismically-unsound nature of the structure. Fire Station #34 has been in its present location (just behind the Arboretum Court building on the South side of E. Madison Street) since the early 1900's.As...
Saturday, November 2, 2013
This is a shout out to Madison Park resident Mary Henry, who today, we are reliably informed, is celebrating her 90th birthday. Her friends tell us that she is far too modest to make a big deal about it, but that doesn't stop us from taking note.Mary wears her nine decades well. She's a spry and intrepid walker (you can see her ambling around the 'hood many days), and if we hadn't been told, we wouldn't have believed her life began during the...
Tuesday, October 29, 2013
This was the scene in Broadmoor around midnight on Monday after a man who claimed to be driving to Everett crashed his car into two parked cars at high speed, flipping his car in the process. A witness estimated that the man was traveling at about 50 miles per hour when the accident happened. The photo shows the man's upside-down vehicle, with a fire crew poised in the background. The incident occurred on the 1400 block of Broadmoor Drive E.Police...
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
Another hazing incident, but it was pretty quite otherwiseIt was at about this time last year that police were called to the area near Madison Park's "Beaver Lodge Sanctuary" (at 37th Avenue E. and E. McGilvra) to investigate a hazing incident involving Garfield students. Although there were post-event admonishments and disciplinary actions by the school's principal after that incident, it became apparent this fall that those earlier attempts to...
Saturday, October 19, 2013
"Committed" to Madison Park no more, exits SundayLong a mainstay on the neighborhood quick-cuisine scene, MAD Pizza this morning announced in an email to its Madison Park fans that it will cease being a pizza-purveyor in Madison Park at 8 pm on Sunday, October 20, though the Seattle-based company said it will still deliver pizzas to the Park from its Capitol Hill location.MAD Pizza has been under increasing competitive pressure in Madison Park since...
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Turn-of-the-century "Amusement Center" hereThat great website, Vintage Seattle, has unearthed the historic photograph above, which it dates as circa 1907, showing an "amusement center" located in Madison Park. Vintage Seattle was unable to identify the context, but it is almost certainly a photo taken of the "White City" amusement park which briefly flourished in Madison Park during the Alaska-Yukon Exhibition of 1909. On the 100th anniversary...
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
New milestones for Madison Park BloggerBlogger.com, which hosts this site, reported today that Madison Park Blogger has surpassed 500,000 pageviews, after just four and a half years of posting:Quantcast, an independent third-party evaluator of site statistics, meanwhile, shows that Madison Park Blogger currently receives over 1,500 unique visitors per month on average (down from over 2,000 for the month ending September 15). MPB now has...
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Tour the neighborhood's trees with an expertMadison Park (the neighborhood) is aptly named, not only for the City park that is our primary attraction, but also for the park-like nature of much of the community that surrounds our park. Residents of Madison Park live within the warm, green embrace of the many lovely trees that dot the neighborhood, though many of us probably don't take the time or don't have the right sensibility to notice.Those...
Friday, October 11, 2013
Taking butt ugly to a whole new levelCommentary by Bryan TagasThose Madison Parkers who were already bemoaning the loss of what they believe was the "village-like character" of the neighborhood now have something to really wail about: these twin duolithic three-story block houses, which have arisen at the northeast corner of E. Lynn St. and 42nd Avenue E. Village-like, they're not.In the more than four years that I've been writing about Madison Park...
Wednesday, October 9, 2013
The City takes actionReaders of the frontpage headline in this month's Madison Park Times ("Accident spurs crosswalk improvements") may have had the impression that improvements had actually been made to the pedestrian street crossing in front of our neighborhood Wells Fargo. The serious accident there involving a pedestrian and a bicyclist in late August certainly warranted some changes.Yet in spite of the fact that the Seattle Department of...
Sunday, October 6, 2013
HIdden BeachMother Nature reverses courseAfter enduring the torrential downpours of last weekend, Madison Parkers were no doubt stunned to find that this weekend was downright balmy, with the sun shining steadily and temperatures rising to the low 70's.Madison Park BeachIt seemed, though, that there were fewer of us around to enjoy the surprise return of "Indian" Summer, with many residents having gotten out of Dodge for the weekend. Their...
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Is now the time to buy this house?One of the possible outcomes of the housing market debacle is that young people who once assumed that owning a home was a smart idea may now have come to a different conclusion. After seeing the precipitous decline in housing values brought about by the stupidity of banks and failed government oversight, many Millennials (those who have come of age in recent years) have concluded that a house is not a good long-term...
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