Where does a dude buy juggling balls round here (and other questions about Seattle, WA)

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So yeah! I am here, and in a hostel on 2nd and Pine. Are you?

Things I am trying to find: Juggling balls, a small cheap fm radio, ilxors, Go-ish type cafes, artsy type cafes. that sort of thing. Are these findable, at all? What else should I do?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Go to Pike Place Market, esp. the downstairs shops. Just walk west on Pine.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Juggling balls and cheap fm radio? Are you a terrorist of some sort?

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:25 (twenty years ago)

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?country=US&addtohistory=&formtype=address&searchtype=address&cat=&address=2nd%20Ave%20%26%20Pine%20St&city=Seattle&state=WA&zipcode=98101&searchtab=home

― M. V. (M.V.), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:29 (twenty years ago)

What happened to "_______ ate my balls" webpages?

― pappawheelie II, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:36 (twenty years ago)

FREMONT TROLL!
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/images/wa/WASEAtrolldk.jpg
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/attract/WASEAtroll.html

― Old School (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:43 (twenty years ago)

Have you contacted donut bitch? He's good stuff and he lives there, he can sort you out.

― LeCoq (LeCoq), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Go catch a 49 bus at the Pine & 2nd stop and ride it up to Pine and Harvard on Capitol Hill. This bus will also go through the University District. Much fun is available on the Hill.

Or, walk over to the stop at Pike & 4th and catch the 10 to the same location. This route is more direct.

― Jaq (Jaq), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

The most Go-ish cafe (meaning a place you'd likely find people playing "Go") is probably on the very west end of Capitol Hill called Bauhaus Coffee. It's on Pine street and Melrose Ave... you can grab a bus off Pike St. (which will usually turn at Pine at Bellevue Ave., a block up from Melrose.), or you can walk up Pine yourself. They also have free wi-fi there, etc. Very much a goth-geek caffeine palace. Also, best coffee in town too.

(Although the rivethead goth-geek equivalent is a few blocks up Pine from Bauhaus coffee called Auriface, across the street.. which is right next to Musicwerks.. which is a goth-industrial record store.)

― donut gon' nut (donut), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

If you want to bus it, go over to Pike, just west of 4th. Most Capitol Hill buses stop there. If you're really cheap, you can exit from the Ride Free area around the convention center, and walk it from there... or just make sure you have $1.25 handy (or $1.50 if you're doing this during rush hour.)

― donut gon' nut (donut), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 19:56 (twenty years ago)

you dang kids and your 49. back in my day there was the 43 and 48. and we were happy to catch them, too. 49... sigh

― ronny longjohns (ronny longjohns), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 23:07 (twenty years ago)

There are cities in which the Fremont Troll and Lenin's Head would be covered by a patina of spraypaint several inches thick.

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

Wow. In the hippie capitol of the world, and no place to find juggling balls...

― John Justen (johnjusten), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

Boyo G! I got the package and I crowed about the Psmith number on the ILB Wodehouse thread even though one of the glasses didn't survive the trip (I had to give it a burial at the office), and I do love your enclosure note. If someone I counted a friend had to disappoint me and reject my hospitality, I'd still count myself lucky to receive such a peace offering. Thank you ever so kindly.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 01:45 (twenty years ago)

There's a magic store in the Pike Place market, you might find your balls there.

― K Thornley, Wednesday, 31 August 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

I walked up university way and got adopted by squatter/travellers, today! I got juggling balls, too. This is a great town. Tomorrow I will totally check out places on this thread - go cafes!

Laurel I wld have loved to accept yr hospitality!:( I only got into NY at 10.30 and e-mail didn't seem sufficient apology. I will do better next time, promise!

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

the only thing missing from the troll pic is the disembodied hand holding the can of Frijoles Negros.

They're renaming that street underneath the Aurora Bridge to Fremont Troll Ave, btw. It used to be called Aurora Ave N., just like the bridge above, but one too many confused drivers and pizza deliveries forced the proposal for the street rename, i guess.

― donut gon' nut (donut), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

oh yeah, if you want to score a bunch of ~~bongs~~ TOBACCO ACCESSORY GLASS PIPES, there are a bunch of stores along 36th st. in Fremont as well. You'll probably see some guy making balanced stone structures. There's also a hi-fi boat sushi place that plays anime, a specialty pet store, and more rare post-punk records for sale (at Jive Time, the Antique Mall, and the Sonic Boom Vinyl Annex) than you can swarthily stagger to after three Guinnesses..

― donut gon' nut (donut), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

OK, fuck a trying to find the right thread for this...

you want a 2 month technical writer assignment in Seattle?
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/wri/691105820.html

― dave 2¼, Thursday, 22 May 2008 21:31 (seventeen years ago)

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