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Post by **kranz** » 15 Mar 2020, 03:32

There was a Norwegian immigrant on my mother's side of the family. He worked for Gulowsen Grei Engine Company in the Alaska building in Seattle. In 1919 the Norwegian company completed a new six acre manufacturing facility at Salmon bay just east of the Ballard locks connecting lake Washington and Puget Sound. The factory produced heavy oil engines for ships ranging from 10 to 400 Hp.

Post by **matthew1** » 15 Mar 2020, 11:33

BB, Yes. Downtown. But your thoughts on the Ballard one are good. I'd never been to the old one, and haven't been to the new one.

Here are some photos circa 2004.

Leon Burman on the Rainier Beer pickup. The ad agency I worked for, Cole & Weber, by coincidence, won the Rainier account and built this ride with the R from the old brewery off I-5, when the absurd Tully T went up.

I met Leon a few times. He is a great guy, and I can't say how many hours of Shake the Shack I listened to, both on the radio, over the Internet, and in person when they did remote shows. It's one type of music that speaks to me... the cars, the culture... outstanding. I wasn't ever a Rockabilly type, but I appreciate it.

I went to a few Rockabilly Balls at the Tractor and such. I'm still crushed he hung it up. I have a strong feeling he was pushed out for not being woke. At all. He was the opposite. Thirty years(!) of hosting Shake the Shack. At 15 years, it was already the world's longest running Rockabilly radio show.

BB, you probably know this, but I'm writing it to leave it for others who find it interesting.

http://liveseattlemusicintheclubs.blogs ... -with.html
https://music.apple.com/us/album/gonna- ... =407298983
https://www.eskimo.com/~nanook/radio/20 ... the-shack/

My neighborhood summer street party. 75th Ave NW, near the 74th Street Ale House in Phinney Ridge. We had a cute 1949 Craftsman.

Ballard guys and their cars.

Ballard.

Post by **BlackBart** » 16 Mar 2020, 11:45

kranz wrote: ↑15 Mar 2020, 03:32 There was a Norwegian immigrant on my mother's side of the family. He worked for Gulowsen Grei Engine Company in the Alaska building in Seattle. In 1919 the Norwegian company completed a new six acre manufacturing facility at Salmon bay just east of the Ballard locks connecting lake Washington and Puget Sound. The factory produced heavy oil engines for ships ranging from 10 to 400 Hp.

I loved that area between the locks and Fremont. The ship canal was full of working shops, old docks, rusting hulks, and working boats going up and down the canal constantly (EDIT - and very posh and classic yachts!). The bike trail along the north side with the big trees was really nice. There was a huge tugboat-like rope hanging from a tree over the water. Kids would swing out into the canal and drop. Hopefully not when a tugboat and loaded barge was coming!

Post by **BlackBart** » 16 Mar 2020, 12:24

Wow, Matt, look at all that stuff! I didn't know the Seattle connections.

The Rainier R!! Glad it's saved.

The Tractor in Ballard! I guess Ballard became sort of a cultish music scene down there at the old bars. Now it seems like the old stuff is torn down for condo buildings...??

Carl Perkins
White Stripes
Stray Cats
KCMU
Link Wray....RRRRRUMBLE!! He was Native American y'know.
Ready for some buzz and distortion and REEEverb??

"Rock-N-Roll wouldn't sound like it does if it wasn't for Link Wray" - John Lennon

Do they connect Dick Dale and surf git-tar to rockabilly? .....diggadiggadiggadigga.....
King of Surf Guitar....
Drumming, strumming, playing upside down, Leo Fender, blowing up amps, etc.....

Rick Nelson way before my time, but I don't think of him as rockabilly. oh...nevermind....

Post by **matthew1** » 16 Mar 2020, 12:24

These are circa 2003. Fremont Bridge.

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Post by **BlackBart** » 16 Mar 2020, 12:34

Yeah, that stretch with the trees - so nice!

Post by **matthew1** » 16 Mar 2020, 12:51

Link Wray - I'd heard him on StS but never listened to who it was. Dick Dale I saw in the mid-1990s here in Denver before I moved to Seattle. He was good. His career got a big boost from Pulp Fiction soundtrack from what I know.

I'm pretty sure the R is back up on the old brewery off I-25.

The work we did for Rainier turned out ok, not great. They wanted to be the next PBR, but we didn't get them there. I have a "collectors" Rainier book with the ad campaigns we did for them, complete with a CD-ROM or DVD with the tv ads. I don't think it'll ever be worth much.

Some of the best tasting beer I've ever had was Rainier in the summer at Mike's Chili https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb ... QXoECEkQBg

Ever go? There's a framed Seattle Times story on the wall inside Mike's Chili from the 1970s (I think the 70s) about Mike's Chili, how three generations have run it over the years. The reporter? Tom Robbins. I have a photo of that story somewhere...

Post by **BlackBart** » 16 Mar 2020, 13:13

Looking east over the ship canal. Salt water below you. The railroad (draw)bridge, then the ship locks, dam, and fish ladder on the right. Salmon Bay beyond that, Ballard on the left. Ballard (draw)bridge) beyond, and then beyond that is the area in Matt's photos.

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Ballard Bridge off in the distance west (and Olympic Mountains). This is the Fremont Bridge, which is now nearly surrounded by a big Adobe office complex. The base of Queen Anne Hill to the left.

Husky Crew!

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Downtown Ballard - Lombardi's garlic festival, mmm. NOTE regular 240 wagon in it's native habitat. I read the largest market for 240 wagons after Sweden was Seattle.

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Does anyone know that UPS started in Seattle?

Post by **BlackBart** » 16 Mar 2020, 13:27

Mike's Chili! That's been there forever. A funny little dive of a place, but good chili! It was below the Ballard Bridge, across the street from the big Ernst hardware store (good riddance). It's a grocery and condo building now.

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And now look, it's got something big and grey behind it!

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Post by **BlackBart** » 16 Mar 2020, 13:52

Volvo Ballard!

Here's some Volvo history! - this is the guy who took over Oddvar's old Volvo shop in Ballard. They took a 122 to the Carrera Panamericana in Mexico. Sweet.
http://www.myballard.com/2008/10/16/bal ... -car-race/

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Oddvar Oggland - "Drive it 'til it breaks, then you know what's wrong!"

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I knew a ceramic artist guy who worked in this shingle building. My son's old skool Land Rover mechanic was 2 blocks north. A public boat ramp on the ship canal is right behind the photographer.

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Fish Chips! and an electric X-Ray Auto 544

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