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http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/travel/escapes/31american.html

 

American Journeys

A Seattle That Won’t Blend In

Michael Hanson for The New York Times

The neighborhoods of Fremont and Ballard, where Holly Gummelt shops the public market, above, retain the unique character of their pasts.

 

By DAN WHITE

Published: October 31, 2008

LONG ago the expanding city of Seattle swallowed up two of its neighbors, and neither of them has ever forgotten.

 

Seattle, Wash. Ballard and Fremont, once cities in their own right, are now Seattle neighborhoods of a particularly independent-minded kind. They’re close together, though not contiguous, and if you travel to either of them today, you’ll encounter a unique character that still resists complete assimilation — Nordic and proudly maritime in Ballard; arty and free-spirited in Fremont.

 

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Hey nothing can surpass Georgetown.

 

Georgetown

 

All the original beer in Seattle comes from Georgetown. Sadly Rainier Beer got sucked away by corporate bs.

 

There still is some local spirit though

 

[img:center]http://www.georgetownbeer.com/images/logoMain1.gif[/img]

 

 

The old Georgetown city hall (back in the days before being sucked into Seattle)

 

[img:center]http://www.georgetownneighborhood.com/photos/photo16.jpg[/img]

 

Georgetown Pharmacy

 

[img:center]http://www.georgetownneighborhood.com/photos/photo21.jpg[/img]

 

Back in the old days my relatives moved to Georgetown when it was a free community not part of Seattle.

 

[img:center]http://dpddata1.seattle.gov/dpd/Apps/HistoricPhotos/023-0023.jpg[/img]

 

 

 

 

 

 

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