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kleinbl00  ·  3035 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Monthly Morale Menagerie Roll call for July, 2016!

Nope. Sorry. Just confirmed with a guy who used to DJ at Skootchies and DV8.

The building in question was at 8th and Denny. It was Scoochies until '85, when it became Oz, then a skating rink, then something else, then DV8, then an abysmal interpretation of that gawdawful Polly Esther's/Culture Club franchise bullshit universe, then Amp, then a hole in the ground. The article shows what it looked like as Amp. Here's what it looked like as Polly Esther's:

Seattle has changed a lot. Westlake Electric was on Westlake for 40 years, then they moved to Woodinville, then they died. In the time I was mixing in the clubs, the "hot spot" went from First Hill to Capitol Hill to Pioneer Square to Downtown to Ballard to Fremont. The club Real World Seattle went to (after we refused to let them into our club) became a righteous 5-star restaurant and then the home of Go2Net/Metacrawler and now office space.





user-inactivated  ·  3035 days ago  ·  link  ·  

EDIT! Turns out I did not move the Google Maps slider far enough. Name of the place was the Hurricane Cafe on Bell Street. For those who do not know, when you go to street view, you can click on the date and move the slider to go back in time. Looks like it has been closed pending land use change for a few years.

Turns out I was looking at the wrong exit to the parking garage. It WAS a block off Denny. Your picture jogged something loose in the ol' noggin. We walked past that place a few times, I never went in there.

That park was awesome when the sun was up; the sun went down and even I was all "let's go across the street, people."