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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

City Lake City Strip Club Nightmare Realized, Unsolicited Jesus Notes from 1973, and Lawnmower Justice!

Posted by Unpaid Intern on Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 5:18 PM

An assembly of the hottest neighborhood-on-neighborhood-on-neighborhood action, posted by news intern Megan Burbank.

Much-Feared Lake City Way Strip Club Now Open: It pains me to report that a grassroots effort to save beautiful Lake City Way from Pandora's Adult Cabaret has failed. Maple Leaf Life reports that despite receiving letters of complaint from both the Maple Leaf and Wedgwood community councils, the city "refused to step in" and on July 13, the club owners announced its opening via Facebook: "Ladies and Gentlemen, Pandora’s is OPEN FOR BUSINESS! Club hours are 1pm to 230am, cover charge is $10 and $5 for a drink. Hope to see you all here!” Will Lake City Way never catch a break? Also, why are they charging so much for drinks? What's next? A Department of Justice investigation? Oh wait.

Im in yer paneling, yelling at you from the past.

Queen Anne View
I'm in yer paneling, yelling at you from the past.

Meanwhile, in Other Obnoxious Capitalization: Queen Anne View reports that a local couple discovered an cheerful-yet-faintly-depressing-and-maybe-a-touch-crazed note written by one "Jack Barbour" in 1973 and addressed to "Future Man" stashed in the paneling of their house. Here's the text, translated from the original Walt Disney handwriting. Capitalization is Jack's, emphasis is mine.

HI FUTURE MAN!
THIS ROOM WAS PANELED BY ME—AUG 1973—WHILE MY WIFE IS VISITING HER FAMILY IN BELGIUM—HOPE YOUR WORLD IS A LITTLE BIT BETTER THAN OURS—DON'T WORK TOO HARD! AND BE A GOOD PERSON FOR THE SAKE OF JESUS!
DATED AUG 19-1973
[fancy signature] JACK BARBOUR

Well, someone is an Emily Dickinson wannabe*. The couple reportedly wanted to keep the note "as a memento" and the post describes it as "a treat," leading me to assume that they are good people for the sake of Jesus.

*To be fair, though, WHO ISN'T?

Speaking of Good People for the Sake of Jesus: Finally, Central District News brings us a tale of street justice. On July 16, a Central District resident recently robbed of his two lawnmowers was approached by a stranger who offered to sell him, uh, two lawnmowers. When the man asked to see the goods, his suspicion was confirmed: they were hot; they were his. But when he confronted the stranger over the stolen goods, the suspect allegedly pulled a "razor blade" knife on him. Fortunately, the man was reportedly able to disarm and restrain his would-be attacker until police arrived. As he was being restrained, the CD News states that "the suspect said the officer was being recorded and that he would have Obama fire him." But Obama did no such thing. Instead, the man was reunited with his beloved gardening implements.

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oh big deal. The builder of our house slipped in a then-current issue of TIME magazine (Jackie Robinson was on the cover, Crosley autos got 45+ mpg, and boy howdy did one shell out for transatlantic phone calls and radio entertainment centers!!), where he'd written in pencil the cost of wood for the house, a carpenter's hourly wage, and the anticipated selling price of our house. We discovered the magazine when we remodeled the kitchen.

Posted by ask me about my two-tone frigidaire on July 20, 2011 at 5:23 PM

wow! 1973, that is practically ancient! I don't think there are even people alive today to tell us the great things that happened during that legendary time period, I am personally surprised it's written in decipherable English, and on white paper nonetheless, I didn't even realize it existed back then! Did anyone call an archaeologist to make sure we can properly preserve this artifact? (ok, sorry, I was just making fun of the commenters on the queen anne blog who seem to think this dumb note is the bees knees, come on guys, people find this stuff all the time, it's not even blog-worthy in a time when people blog their bowel movement schedules)

Posted by Andy_Squirrel on July 20, 2011 at 5:40 PM

70's. Wood paneling. Classic.

Posted by six five on July 20, 2011 at 5:51 PM

As someone who lives a few blocks away from Pandora's I'd like to point out that while it's on Lake City Way it's not in Lake City. The place also looks like a fucking bunker right now, I'd rather they get some gaudy neon up (or just close) because it's seriously creepy looking.

Posted by dwightmoodyforgetsthings

on July 20, 2011 at 5:59 PM

For what it's worth, the world probably is a little bit better than it was in 1973.

Posted by Dougsf on July 20, 2011 at 6:15 PM

I'd agree with that, Doug. Oh, the music was better then, and Saturday Night Live was actually funny. But at least people aren't being drafted and sent to Vietnam now.

Posted by Fifty-Two-Eighty

on July 20, 2011 at 6:26 PM

Oh for sure, Doug. I mean, in 1973 America was stuck dealing with a seemingly unending war, there were chronic energy and food crises, inflation/stagflation casting a pall over the economy, and key demographic groups had their basic civil rights kept in limbo. I'm glad we aren't dealing with those problems anymore!

Posted by laterite on July 20, 2011 at 6:29 PM

Frederick & Nelson was still alive and selling very cool Dansk dinnerware in 1973. Across the street, I. Magnin was selling Halston. You could walk onto a plane without going through security in 1973. City Light still had a Home Economics Department, and because of that, you got a fun little recipe with every power bill.

Other than that, though, I agree that things are much better now. Mostly.

And, since you bought it up, let the naked ladies dance, while the people who like to watch naked ladies dance have a good stiff drink!

Posted by Catalina Vel-DuRay

on July 20, 2011 at 6:43 PM

I found funny pages from the 50's in the walls while redoing our kitchen, and l lost a whole day when I was supposed to be assembling Ikea cabinets or something sitting in the middle of the floor reading them ...

Posted by SeaExile on July 20, 2011 at 6:44 PM

Hey, I said "a little bit." Despite the analogs between then and now, at least now, er, well—hey, crime's way down. That's something. Oh, and we finally all commute to work via personal helicopter. That's happening now—
Are we married to Diane Keaton yet?

Posted by Dougsf on July 20, 2011 at 6:45 PM

I'll take Karen Black, myself. ;^)

Posted by laterite on July 20, 2011 at 7:14 PM

Hah! When I was doing some minor remodeling a few years ago, I found wads of newspaper stuffed in the walls (as a cheap form of insulation, I guess) from 1943. Probably didn't do much good as insulation, but was fun to read when I discovered it.

Posted by Reverse Polarity on July 20, 2011 at 8:41 PM

@6: SNL debuted in 1975. So the question is, is today's SNL better than The Midnight Special?

Posted by Greg Barnes on July 20, 2011 at 9:07 PM

That note is wonderful, even if it invokes the powerless spectre of Jesus. I've left lots of little notes like that in things I've had a hand in building in, or elsewhere. I'd love to find one myself.

Posted by Zebes

on July 20, 2011 at 9:37 PM

In the 70's people were more likely to have health insurance, the social safety net hadn't been dismantled, and "working class" and "working poor" weren't the synonymous, so it wasn't all bad.

Posted by Joe Glibmoron on July 20, 2011 at 10:51 PM

I love doing this. Whenever I'm covering up a hole or boarding up a wall in my house I leave a note for the next person with a newspaper from that day. I figure it will be fun for the next rehabber.

Posted by Root on July 21, 2011 at 8:51 AM

The paneling story is cool, but not as cool as the story of the woman in MN who found about 15 liters of turn-of-the-century booze in the wall of her house.

Posted by STJA on July 21, 2011 at 9:20 AM