Yeah, Kendall. This looks like the car we had when I was a kid:   Packard.   (In fact, that kinda looks like my Dad.)

I live in a 100 year-old building on Seattle's Capitol Hill. Four stories, twenty apartments, and it became a co-op apartment building in 1948. This means that we all own shares in the building and our apartment is part of our share. (HERE).

Developers look hungrily at the building. They also look hungrily at several other houses and apartment buildings in this area. This was one of the first settled and lived-in areas in the city, about a five minute drive from downtown. Many old buildings, some great old mansions that used to be lived in by the biggies of Seattle's yesteryear.

And a great old Craftsman house across the street and down the block where (ironically) a well-known Seattle historian lived (the Hitchman house). Developers managed to buy it a couple of years ago with the intention of tearing it down and putting a six unit townhouse (style, 1950s motel modern) in its place. Neighbors managed to get a petition out and stopped it. We're trying to get some of the buildings in this area declared "Historic Landmarks," which would mean that tasteless developers can't touch them.

The same breed of buzzard is hovering over are all the old, historical buildings in Seattle's Pioneer Square.

One good thing about the real estate down-turn is that these bozos have backed off a bit.

Don Firth