Your local Bar, a cornerstone for a neighborhood. I was fortunate enough to have a couple of favorite watering holes along my life’s travels where almost everyone knew almost everyone’s name. I’d think a wise developer might consider incorporating Murphys into their plans.

AND, My Mom was a Murphy. And I’m godawful proud of my Irish blood.

Time was, you could grab a movie (they showed the good ones) and then head over to Murphy's. You could even fit in a trip to Open Books and visit with John and Christine.

Developers will not be happy until every quirky or fun business in Seattle is gone. They've already ruined Ballard, now I guess they have Wallingford in their sights.

Been years since I've been to that part of Seattle.

Of course, they mostly stopped making, and people stopped going to, the kind of movies they showed. It was a luxury having that chain around. Regal will show good movies sometimes but they vamoose them in about a week so you're SOL most of the time. Otherwise it's superheroes or horror.