2 killed, 3 injured in North Seattle shooting; gunman at large

[haele]

7. My brother and I went to all three.

Grew up off 65th and 16th NE. in the 70's. I used to live in the public library that was right off 50th and Roosevelt Way during the summer - I think I read almost every single book there.

Once he gets to the park, there's a lot of places a runner can go and get "lost" in the neighborhoods around there - and if he gets to a car, he's right off the freeway or could haul through the district to the Viaduct.

Before they moved to Albuquerque in 2005, my parents told me that efforts to "gentrify" the Roosevelt Way area between 50th and 65th into a "hip strip" weren't working too well - lots of empty storefronts even during a boom. Too many burn-outs - everyone wanted to open a rave/club/microbrewery, quirky or ethnic restaurant or a coffee lounge for the UW crowd, and there was just too much sameness competing against each other. Since there were also a lot of drugs - stimulants and club enhancers for the students, mostly, there were also some rather nasty gang issues.

But of course, no one could compete with the original Blue Moon biker bar...

Haele