A bowling alley once stood here. Blue-collar family entertainment. Off the lanes was an inexpensive bar with a tiki theme and a rousing karaoke night. Gone now, displaced by the commodity driven by zero-down loans and rampant speculation: real estate.
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A few blocks away, at 85th and 8th Ave NW, they race to finish these before the mortgages fall through. These shacks are probably listing for $375-$400K.
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Before and after wonderful luxe "finishes" are added, off Holman Rd, not far from Dick's Drive-in:
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Down 105th, we see an entire world constructed of this sawdust glueboard crap.
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Culminating in the fabulous Dwell townhouses, which will one day burn down in a multi-fatality tenement tragedy:
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Cultural anthropologists of the future: this is how we lived in 2008, in Seattle, WA, in good times. We manufactured houses out of wasteboard crap, and sold them to people without any money, using zero-down ARMs. Yes, our culture and standards were utter rot.
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