The final section of the main Three Rivers Mall corridor was noticeably dark on my visit, with only a few emergency lights and the large skylights lighting up the area. As far as I could tell, there was not a single business open at the time I was there, with the only occupied storefronts (a gym and a screen-printing shop) apparently closed Sundays. The title, of course, is a reference to the (at least locally) famous billboard put up during the 1970s Boeing Bust -- it's been almost 50 years now, and while Seattle is certainly nowhere near those days, the sentiment still resonates clearly in many of Washington's rural communities.
That's an interesting story about the billboard. I'd never heard of it before.
ReplyDeleteYep -- just another of those local legends...
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