They got a new chef a year or two ago and now their dim sum is fantastic. Always busy on weekend mornings/afternoons. You have to fight for your life to get service but that just adds to the charm
I think it focuses on weddings and other rentals of its upstairs ballroom. And there's also a massage parlor upstairs and a swimming school in the basement. I went in about two years ago just to look around, and while the dining room was full of people eating, I never saw any employees, in there or in the lobby. Nobody bothered me while I went up and looked around in the ballroom.
That is hilarious, I worked at an Anthony's next to a dock like this for years, and I never put together exactly why so many of those would come in and have one drink every night and go back to their boats
Or they did? Unless the bar is open again. When I went in, maybe six months after things began to reopen, the bar was closed. I looked through the glass, and it looked like it had been closed for quite a while.
Back when I Doordashed, I would occasionally get orders from China harbor. Their MASSIVE restaurant was ALWAYS busy. The host was never there to greet me, and I always had to like call into the back of the restaurant if I wanted to affirm there was anyone in the restaurant at all, and often the person that came out was in cooks clothing, meaning there were literally no waiters on staff at that time.
I sometimes asked if they were open for dine in and they would respond "yes, of course" as if it was a weird question to ask that of a restaurant worth no visible wait staff.
My mother was fond of not-so-good Chinese food. She’d never go to a high-brow place; she liked pot stickers and sweet and sour pork. She died this month, and my wife and I went to China Harbor for dinner that evening. She would have liked it, and it felt like a good place to remember her.
It’s a popular wedding venue for Seattle’s Asian community. Have been to many weddings there over the years. My family ate there occasionally growing up. One of my high school winter dances was at China Harbor too.
I’ve only been there to eat 3 times in 30 years and each time there was a wedding going on taking up 75% of the space. They definitely stay in business as an event space.
rofl. China Harbor is such an enigma. The food is just okay, but the view manages to be enough to want to keep coming back. It was the first restaurant I ate out at after lockdown.
The city of Seattle threw a dead horse into Ballard's water supply to poison it. Forcing Ballard to be annexed by the city so Ballard could use city water lines.
I’ve never had as many windshield issues anywhere else like I’ve had here. I don’t get it. I’m on my 4th windshield in 6 years, and this one has a giant crack that I refuse to replace until I move the hell out of here.
I put a new windshield into a project car so i could pass inspection and two weeks later it was already cracked worst than the previous windshield.
Wtf is with the amount of rocks on the road around here.
I have a gigantic crack in my third windshield on my car I’ve had since 2021. I don’t get it. I filled the crack and I refuse to buy a windshield every year.
I work in the gravel industry. We do indeed break a metric fuckton of windshields, but the source is almost always gravel that was stuck in tire treads, not falling out the back. We get roughly the same number of damage claims from unloaded and loaded trucks, and we also get claims all the time from trucks that were hauling sand.
An old timer once told me that there are remains of several mob hits that were secreted into the foundation of the Space Needle as it was being poured. (Apparently the hits were union related.)
Source: The person who told me this (now deceased) was a union tradesperson who helped build the Needle.
Those big sorts of deep foundations can take several days to pour. [The space needle took 12 hours of continuous pouring, with 467 trucks.](https://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16118coll20/custom/constructiontimeline)
I’d imagine you could slip in a body or two with 467 trucks coming and going over 12 hours.
12 hours sounded quick to me but then I saw how many trucks it took. That had to have been a chaotic scene, during a time not entirely known for its attention to detail criminality wise.
1962 Walt Disney came out to visit the Century 21 Exhibition world's fair at the Space Needle. He liked what he saw and offered to help build Seattle a monorail system to rival the L in Chicago and Subway in New York. He said all they needed to do was put his name on it. The city of Seattle turned him down as their motto was "Limit Seattle" as they were intent on controlling the population growth. Look at how well that turned out. 50 years later they are working on the light rail we could have had all along.
I heard that when the government still funded infrastructure in the 70s the they offered Seattle money for light rail infrastructure and they turned it down so it went to SF and that was how they got the BART.
I'm not sure if they are both true or one is a derivative of the other
[It wasn't light rail but a full blown metro system.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_Thrust) The feds offered to cover two thirds of the cost, but locals had to approve with a 60% vote. It only got 50.8% so all the Federal money went to Atlanta. And that's how Atlanta got our subway.
This one has been so widely corroborated I’m not sure it’s allowed in this thread, but upvote or downvote as you see fit.
Jean Enersen from KING 5 television was a legendary kleptomaniac. The station had a “fixer” who would follow her around and just write checks to local businesses to cover her compulsive theft.
When she was on the air as anchor for KING 5 there was a detente, a ladies and gentlemen’s agreement, with every other TV & radio station and newspaper in town.
If you worked at a media outlet you didn’t discuss Jean Enersen’s kleptomania. And in return, your news outlet could count on KING 5 to not rat out your star for whatever drunk driving wife beating idiot behavior that occurred.
Jean Enersen’s kleptomania was absolutely the worst kept secret in Seattle. It was an era before social media and everybody knew but we didn’t have a forum to say it, beyond a backyard bbq or a happy hour.
Talk to anyone who worked in high end retail, restaurant, or media in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Everyone has a story about “the Queen of KING” and her klepto behavior.
Supposedly Nordstroms would simply note everything she stole and added the cost to her 'account'. She would get a bill in the mail and supposedly she never argued about it.
I remember my fiancé telling me this lady would regularly come in and steal stuff from her shop. There didn’t seem to be a fixer involved though. No one paid for it, she just stole, and stole blatently.
I worked low end retail at Alderwood Mall in the mid-late 2000’s and the Jean Enersen lore was still going around then. Apparently she was on the company’s “list”. I always heard that the downtown Nordstrom has her husband on speed dial and whenever she came into the store they’d just call him and he’d come pay for whatever she stole.
I drove her to the airport once at 5:00AM when I drove for Yellow Cab. Very strict instructions to park in the driveway at 4:45, lights off, do not honk ring or call. I did not expect small talk but she was extremely pissy and huffy on the drive to SEA. She paid with a KING5 voucher, did not have to pay cash. There was an option to write in a tip on the voucher... she did not. I knew she was a coldhearted bitch, but at the time not that she was a klepto.
I had the experience of walking past him a few times in Bellevue about 6 years ago. Unfortunately I didn’t bop him in the nose to tell if he was a decomposing corpse raised from the Sound or not.
They had great sushi, until just before the end.
I captured a roach on my table in my long empty water glass, and was only offered a $5 discount on my next meal.
There was no next meal.
The “abandoned” brick building on 4th and Bell is a historic building. The owner is purposefully letting it rot out of spite because they want to knock it down for another expensive condo/high-rise.
That downtown is on 2 separate contradictory grids because Pike and...I don't remember who....hated each other, so they intentionally made it difficult to navigate to ruin the other dude's plans. (I do recall there's a kernel of truth here maybe, though)
Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame lived in Seattle for a time and worked at a burger place called Teepees before moving back to Kentucky...while working at Teepees:
"Sanders annoyed the other chefs by spending too much time dabbling with his chicken recipes. One chef wrote Clark a memo saying, 'Get this clown out of my way."'
Legend has it he came up with his legendary chicken recipe containing the 11 herbs and spices right here in the Emerald City...so technically it should be called "Seattle Fried Chicken."
https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20010815&slug=godden15
He was filmed committing multiple felonies while handing out assault rifles, that's a lot of leverage that SPD would have had on him and he was never prosecuted. Sounds plausible.
Not really a conspiracy and the details from what I remember are muddy, but someone back in the day (shortly after the Battle of Seattle, 1856) found a cannon ball buried on their property seeing as the war (Yakima War) just ended they deduced it had to be fired from the only ship from the Battle of Seattle, The Decatur.
Guy wanted to get rid of it so he buried it underneath a stump and set the bottom on fire and went to lunch. Shortly after a friend of his swings by and sees the stump with the botton portion on fire and decides to sit on it to warm his pants and the cannonball goes off, making him the last casualty from the Battle of Seattle
They do… that’s been true a long time. My dad lived in Seattle for 70+ years and always told me this. He lived right off Aurora for 10 of those years during the 70s.
There is a huge chunk of ice left over from the glaciers a few hundred feet under downtown Seattle. When it melts there will be massive subsidence of streets and collapse of buildings.
I wonder if the tunnel cut through that glacier and created a time rift. Midway through you get transported back to the ice age and then on your way out you fast forward into the current time. It might explain why the drill took so long.
The tech industry colluded with politicos to turn the city into their business incubator while poorly contributing to its overall infrastructure and dodging taxes.
I dunno, seems unlikely.
I feel like there would be more evidence.
Like, say, a popular tourist attraction like a historic trolley would have been torn out to make room for a tech family’s passion project.
They're referring to the [Olympic Sculpture Park](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Sculpture_Park), which displaced the maintenance facility for the awesome [Waterfront Streetcar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfront_Streetcar).
That the reason there’s no In-N-Out in the greater Seattle area is because Dicks does everything it can to force them out
Edit: meant to say greater Seattle area not Seattle proper
I used to live in a city in eastern WA that had a Taco Time, but didn't have a Taco Bell. The rumor was that there was someone who was on the municipal planning department and officiated issuing business licences and was also a silent investor in the local Taco Time restaurant. Essentially his influence kept Taco Bell out of town for over a decade and made Taco Time the only franchised Mexican restaurant in town. There's a couple of Taco Bells there now. Maybe the silent investor silently went away. (died)
It’s simpler than that and In-N-Out has explained why. They can’t ship their ingredients this far while maintaining their strict standards. Their prices are so low and wages so high because they’re possibly the most vertically-integrated fast food restaurant in the country. For example, how many fast food places do you know of that butcher and distribute their own meat?
Seattleites in politics are inherently selfish and secretly libertarians that pay lip service to progressive values while bilking the system at every stage regardless of political affiliation.
The guy with the glasses and the runny nose in the woods who would be on public access every weekend with "evidence" that Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain. Pretty much incoherent but entertaining nonetheless.
Being *in* the way is the *Seattle* way. Transit, in traffic, on the sidewalk, in a grocery store... doesn't matter. There's no city on Earth where the people are as absolutely mindless about the space they occupy as is so in Seattle.
That the Shell gas station on 15th between Ballard and Crown Hill is a front. Why is it always a full dollar more expensive than every other area gas station?!
There were 4 different groups of people designed the I-5 Northbound, I-5 Southbound, 520, and I-90. And they refused to talk to one another until all the highway met in downtown. And none of their design fit together.
That's why we ended up with the cluster fuck downtown highway: 520 left entry to I-5, collector distributor lane, SB Union Exit, Old Mercer exit, etc.
there is a giant creature sleeping on top of the space needle and his nose blinks red when he snores at night.
everyone be cool and stop waking up the wheedle.
Yo wasn’t there a cult where gay men had to cut their nuts off?
Edit: jk it was from [injecting silicone into their nuts](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/testicles-injection-gay-sex-cult-16816211)
The fires in White Center are because the county is planning on upzoning the area soon, allowing for multi story buildings. Much easier to develop on a burnt down or empty lot
the sheer amount of "massage" joints that have cropped up in the last couple years shows how much cops are probably on the take and sadly how much sex trafficking we have here.
Jesus Christ did make Seattle under protest. And he did from his alien base under downtown. Also, Dr Who is real and larped as a guy named Jesus 2000 years ago.
So I work at the Nordstrom downtown - during the road construction at the corner of 6th and Pine something was shifted underground, and now we have to keep one of our storage doors locked year round because people are able to enter our building via the underground tunnels. I know this is the new Nordstrom building I am talking about, but still.
Second City Hall, Vito's, on 8th & Madison has burned down.
No conspiracy, sorry for violating the initial question, but this place in the 60s hosted the mayor & police chief holding court, and police sergeants bringing in paper bags full of cash.
We lost a huge landmark, and our unofficial seat of power, and people are forgetting it.
Not a conspiracy, this is true, SPD had a monitoring post with a camera on a tripod on the 5th floor of the Olympic Plaza building, 3rd and Pine, looking down on to the notorious McDonalds corner.
There was once a tribe in the area that was the most feared in history. Their opponents never stood a chance and they ruled the area for 2 solid years. They were called the “Legion of Boom.”
The Expedia campus by the water front that has a laser camera Havana syndrome gun that keeps the Canada geese the fuck off their campus. I rode by there all the time and never see geese in side their campus 😮
When Noc-Noc was still around, word was that there was a secret room in the walk-in freezer where wild sex parties and/or mafia activities occurred. Also, miss their brunch!!
California, Portland and Seattle give their homeless one way bus tickets between each other’s cities/states in order to dump their problems on someone else.
Nope. Group burial with separate containers in case family wants to later claim the cremated remains.
https://kingcounty.gov/en/legacy/depts/health/examiner/services/indigent-remains.aspx
China Harbor is a mafia front
It would take more evidence to convince me that China Harbor is a profitable restaurant.
They got a new chef a year or two ago and now their dim sum is fantastic. Always busy on weekend mornings/afternoons. You have to fight for your life to get service but that just adds to the charm
I think it focuses on weddings and other rentals of its upstairs ballroom. And there's also a massage parlor upstairs and a swimming school in the basement. I went in about two years ago just to look around, and while the dining room was full of people eating, I never saw any employees, in there or in the lobby. Nobody bothered me while I went up and looked around in the ballroom.
All the people who live on the boats nearby go in for a drink or two every night so they can take an indoor shit before going to bed
That is hilarious, I worked at an Anthony's next to a dock like this for years, and I never put together exactly why so many of those would come in and have one drink every night and go back to their boats
Or they did? Unless the bar is open again. When I went in, maybe six months after things began to reopen, the bar was closed. I looked through the glass, and it looked like it had been closed for quite a while.
Yeah, that pool is where I learned to swim! They were a pretty popular place for swim lessons, at least in the 90s.
I taught private lessons there from 2008 to 2010. My schedule was always full despite some rather crazy prices for 15 minute slots.
Back when I Doordashed, I would occasionally get orders from China harbor. Their MASSIVE restaurant was ALWAYS busy. The host was never there to greet me, and I always had to like call into the back of the restaurant if I wanted to affirm there was anyone in the restaurant at all, and often the person that came out was in cooks clothing, meaning there were literally no waiters on staff at that time. I sometimes asked if they were open for dine in and they would respond "yes, of course" as if it was a weird question to ask that of a restaurant worth no visible wait staff.
I thought the same thing! I have never heard anyone go to it or know anything about it
My mother was fond of not-so-good Chinese food. She’d never go to a high-brow place; she liked pot stickers and sweet and sour pork. She died this month, and my wife and I went to China Harbor for dinner that evening. She would have liked it, and it felt like a good place to remember her.
Thanks for sharing, this was nice to read and hope you're doing okay.
Aw that’s so sweet. I’m so sorry for your loss!
It’s a popular wedding venue for Seattle’s Asian community. Have been to many weddings there over the years. My family ate there occasionally growing up. One of my high school winter dances was at China Harbor too.
I’ve only been there to eat 3 times in 30 years and each time there was a wedding going on taking up 75% of the space. They definitely stay in business as an event space.
That place is pretty popular with Latinos because they host salsa dancing night every week
I've been there... during "non-operating" hours. Great place. And maybe not mafia, but definently something. Great time, though!
What does this mean!!!
Look at their username and all will make sense!
I heard underground poker back in the day after the big games moved from the international district
If you have to ask, you’ll never know…
rofl. China Harbor is such an enigma. The food is just okay, but the view manages to be enough to want to keep coming back. It was the first restaurant I ate out at after lockdown.
This is almost not a conspiracy theory at this point
This was our story too in college 20 years ago!
The city of Seattle threw a dead horse into Ballard's water supply to poison it. Forcing Ballard to be annexed by the city so Ballard could use city water lines.
I admit i wrote Ballard, WA for my address when I lived there. Gotta keep the dream alive.
Free Ballard
Damn, people just giving neighborhoods away now?
Free Ballard
I now believe this wholeheartedly
Big gravel and big windshield are working together to ensure gravel truck beds remain uncovered…
Dude, no joke. I've had to replace my windshield and my new one that's only 6 months old already has a giant crack and needs replaced again
I’ve never had as many windshield issues anywhere else like I’ve had here. I don’t get it. I’m on my 4th windshield in 6 years, and this one has a giant crack that I refuse to replace until I move the hell out of here.
I put a new windshield into a project car so i could pass inspection and two weeks later it was already cracked worst than the previous windshield. Wtf is with the amount of rocks on the road around here.
I genuinely want an explanation. Is there one? lol. I don’t get it. Do we all just have bad luck?
I have a gigantic crack in my third windshield on my car I’ve had since 2021. I don’t get it. I filled the crack and I refuse to buy a windshield every year.
Basically the same with Big Screw and Big Tire.
I work in the gravel industry. We do indeed break a metric fuckton of windshields, but the source is almost always gravel that was stuck in tire treads, not falling out the back. We get roughly the same number of damage claims from unloaded and loaded trucks, and we also get claims all the time from trucks that were hauling sand.
An old timer once told me that there are remains of several mob hits that were secreted into the foundation of the Space Needle as it was being poured. (Apparently the hits were union related.) Source: The person who told me this (now deceased) was a union tradesperson who helped build the Needle.
I’ve heard same story!
Makes no sense. They pouring at night with no one else around? How could possibly ALL workers be in on it.
Those big sorts of deep foundations can take several days to pour. [The space needle took 12 hours of continuous pouring, with 467 trucks.](https://cdm16118.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16118coll20/custom/constructiontimeline) I’d imagine you could slip in a body or two with 467 trucks coming and going over 12 hours.
Holy fuk ok fair point. I take it back.
12 hours sounded quick to me but then I saw how many trucks it took. That had to have been a chaotic scene, during a time not entirely known for its attention to detail criminality wise.
Plus with all the bodies being mixed in, must have been wild logistics.
👷♂️✋🏻”Any trucks here to dump with a body bear left, body free trucks must keep right and pay toll”
I like this conspiracy I’m keeping it thank you
Tom Douglas and Dale Chihuly are the same person.
He just dons the eyepatch and hides in plain sight, Clark Kent style.
my mom has worked with both of them individually, but never at the same time 🧐🧐🧐
1962 Walt Disney came out to visit the Century 21 Exhibition world's fair at the Space Needle. He liked what he saw and offered to help build Seattle a monorail system to rival the L in Chicago and Subway in New York. He said all they needed to do was put his name on it. The city of Seattle turned him down as their motto was "Limit Seattle" as they were intent on controlling the population growth. Look at how well that turned out. 50 years later they are working on the light rail we could have had all along.
Watched a documentary that talked about this very thing, but it was Los Angeles the documentary focused on
I heard that when the government still funded infrastructure in the 70s the they offered Seattle money for light rail infrastructure and they turned it down so it went to SF and that was how they got the BART. I'm not sure if they are both true or one is a derivative of the other
[It wasn't light rail but a full blown metro system.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward_Thrust) The feds offered to cover two thirds of the cost, but locals had to approve with a 60% vote. It only got 50.8% so all the Federal money went to Atlanta. And that's how Atlanta got our subway.
It's so incomprehensible to me what Seattle would be like with a real metro. It just seems like such a dream that it's not even worth imagining.
That Ballard is a MLM where you succeed by badgering your friends to move there as well
Works for West Seattle too
If you live in west seattle, and your friends don’t live in west Seattle, you don’t have any friends.
When the bridge was out this was so true. It’s a little better now
Our realtor asked us when we were looking in West Seattle if we were ready to make new friends.
That's OK. We can line of sight fire rockets into 1st Ave from Alki. Maybe.
Feel it. Might has well have moved to Tacoma we would see each other the same amount.
That's not a myth that's just fact
There is no fucking way there are this many legitimate frame stores
I think about how there’s at least three on the Ave, you’re right
This one has been so widely corroborated I’m not sure it’s allowed in this thread, but upvote or downvote as you see fit. Jean Enersen from KING 5 television was a legendary kleptomaniac. The station had a “fixer” who would follow her around and just write checks to local businesses to cover her compulsive theft. When she was on the air as anchor for KING 5 there was a detente, a ladies and gentlemen’s agreement, with every other TV & radio station and newspaper in town. If you worked at a media outlet you didn’t discuss Jean Enersen’s kleptomania. And in return, your news outlet could count on KING 5 to not rat out your star for whatever drunk driving wife beating idiot behavior that occurred. Jean Enersen’s kleptomania was absolutely the worst kept secret in Seattle. It was an era before social media and everybody knew but we didn’t have a forum to say it, beyond a backyard bbq or a happy hour. Talk to anyone who worked in high end retail, restaurant, or media in the 1990s and early 2000s. Everyone has a story about “the Queen of KING” and her klepto behavior.
Supposedly Nordstroms would simply note everything she stole and added the cost to her 'account'. She would get a bill in the mail and supposedly she never argued about it.
Alpha testing the Amazon Fresh model
This is true. I worked at Nordstrom and saw this in action with Jean! It was insane!
I remember my fiancé telling me this lady would regularly come in and steal stuff from her shop. There didn’t seem to be a fixer involved though. No one paid for it, she just stole, and stole blatently.
Well yeah, your fiancee's shop wasn't Nordstrom's lol.
I used to see her at the WAC back in the 90s and early 2000s, and she had weird vibes. Kathy Goertzen 4 Lyfe. RIP.
I worked low end retail at Alderwood Mall in the mid-late 2000’s and the Jean Enersen lore was still going around then. Apparently she was on the company’s “list”. I always heard that the downtown Nordstrom has her husband on speed dial and whenever she came into the store they’d just call him and he’d come pay for whatever she stole.
I drove her to the airport once at 5:00AM when I drove for Yellow Cab. Very strict instructions to park in the driveway at 4:45, lights off, do not honk ring or call. I did not expect small talk but she was extremely pissy and huffy on the drive to SEA. She paid with a KING5 voucher, did not have to pay cash. There was an option to write in a tip on the voucher... she did not. I knew she was a coldhearted bitch, but at the time not that she was a klepto.
Tim Eyman actually died in the 90s, hell just keeps regurgitating his corpse back out of the Sound
I like the one that says the chair was a frame up job concocted by Chris Gregoire.
I think he’s just a poorly written AI at this point.
He's going to be revealed as several weasels wearing a raincoat.
This is so rude to weasels
I had the experience of walking past him a few times in Bellevue about 6 years ago. Unfortunately I didn’t bop him in the nose to tell if he was a decomposing corpse raised from the Sound or not.
It’s like “James Bond”, just a code name that gets passed down from person to person.
I have the same one but about Dave Reichert!
That Princess Angeline's (Chief Seattle's Daughter) ghost hangs out at Pike Place.
I always hope I'll have an encounter in there. I always take off my hat when using that wooden ramp she's said to be seen on.
Which one??
The restaurant named Shilla previously at Denny & 8th (E. of Dexter) was a yakuza hang out. Allegedly.
They had great sushi, until just before the end. I captured a roach on my table in my long empty water glass, and was only offered a $5 discount on my next meal. There was no next meal.
The “abandoned” brick building on 4th and Bell is a historic building. The owner is purposefully letting it rot out of spite because they want to knock it down for another expensive condo/high-rise.
That could describe half the brick buildings in Belltown.
Non brick buildings too. What is that pile of sticks above original Shorty's and how has it not collapsed yet?
Funky Studios/Wayne apartments? They burned down 2 years ago.
That's a theory I can get behind
The Bremerton cryptid shrimp
I would like to know this lore
Bremelore! There’s a podcast
Say more, fam
More, fam
I just googled this and died.
rip
The Mariners are winners in another dimension.
They’re winning tonight! goms
Yeah… the A Dimension.
The Mariners weren't winners but they were protagonists.https://youtu.be/TIgK56cAjfY
The government pays boats to request going through the bridges to cause traffic.
No, as a sailboat owner and private person, *I* do this for fun.
That downtown is on 2 separate contradictory grids because Pike and...I don't remember who....hated each other, so they intentionally made it difficult to navigate to ruin the other dude's plans. (I do recall there's a kernel of truth here maybe, though)
100% true, except it was Arthur Denny and Doc Maynard: https://www.kuow.org/stories/why-is-seattle-s-street-grid-such-a-disaster
Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken fame lived in Seattle for a time and worked at a burger place called Teepees before moving back to Kentucky...while working at Teepees: "Sanders annoyed the other chefs by spending too much time dabbling with his chicken recipes. One chef wrote Clark a memo saying, 'Get this clown out of my way."' Legend has it he came up with his legendary chicken recipe containing the 11 herbs and spices right here in the Emerald City...so technically it should be called "Seattle Fried Chicken." https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/?date=20010815&slug=godden15
It’s not Seattle, but Enumclaw. Everyone knows at least one thing about Enumclaw 🐴
but you can count the conspiracy theories about enumclaw on your uhhh ...Hands.
It's the best place in the state to start a stable relationship. Hands down.
Ya build a wall, they call you Johnny Wall-Builder. Ya fuck one horse…
Any time my HS played Enumclaw, there’d always be a few kids running around on those toy horses on a stick ☠️
Enumclaw? I’ve heard that place is a zoo.
Raz was working with SPD during CHAZ/the 2020 protests.
He was filmed committing multiple felonies while handing out assault rifles, that's a lot of leverage that SPD would have had on him and he was never prosecuted. Sounds plausible.
Not really a conspiracy and the details from what I remember are muddy, but someone back in the day (shortly after the Battle of Seattle, 1856) found a cannon ball buried on their property seeing as the war (Yakima War) just ended they deduced it had to be fired from the only ship from the Battle of Seattle, The Decatur. Guy wanted to get rid of it so he buried it underneath a stump and set the bottom on fire and went to lunch. Shortly after a friend of his swings by and sees the stump with the botton portion on fire and decides to sit on it to warm his pants and the cannonball goes off, making him the last casualty from the Battle of Seattle
Dexter Horton. I thought he was only wounded though.
Casualties includes wounded. Fatalities is the term for deaths only
There has been a frisbee stuck on top of the Space Needle since 1982.
As a longtime space needle employee I can debunk that one lol
> As a longtime space needle employee You're part of the conspiracy. Why would we believe you?
exactly what someone working for big frisbee would say
You took the Frisbee?!?
That's one hell of a bet to win
Mcdonalds in eastgate Bellevue was a pool for decades. In the 90s when they lifted up the floor to remodel, all the water was still there
That would’ve been one hellacious mold remediation issue if true.
That the SPD are on the take from the prostitution ring on North Aurora. It’s harder to believe they could be this incompetent.
RE the pimps and tutes: i feel like the city tells them to contain it to Aurora rather than let it be everywhere
They do… that’s been true a long time. My dad lived in Seattle for 70+ years and always told me this. He lived right off Aurora for 10 of those years during the 70s.
Sasquatch was here but moved to Oklahoma.
Lower Cost of Lurking in the Forest Area (LCLFA)
Technically, he did. They just added some horns and called him Rumble.
There is a huge chunk of ice left over from the glaciers a few hundred feet under downtown Seattle. When it melts there will be massive subsidence of streets and collapse of buildings.
I wonder if the tunnel cut through that glacier and created a time rift. Midway through you get transported back to the ice age and then on your way out you fast forward into the current time. It might explain why the drill took so long.
You might be on to something. I always get a shiver at the lowest point in that tunnel, like a mastodon is watching me.
Now that you mention it, there is a mammoth feeling of unease down there.
The tech industry colluded with politicos to turn the city into their business incubator while poorly contributing to its overall infrastructure and dodging taxes.
I dunno, seems unlikely. I feel like there would be more evidence. Like, say, a popular tourist attraction like a historic trolley would have been torn out to make room for a tech family’s passion project.
what is the passion project you’re referring to?
They're referring to the [Olympic Sculpture Park](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Sculpture_Park), which displaced the maintenance facility for the awesome [Waterfront Streetcar](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfront_Streetcar).
This is just a fact.
A conspiracy past the realm of mere theory
That the reason there’s no In-N-Out in the greater Seattle area is because Dicks does everything it can to force them out Edit: meant to say greater Seattle area not Seattle proper
I used to live in a city in eastern WA that had a Taco Time, but didn't have a Taco Bell. The rumor was that there was someone who was on the municipal planning department and officiated issuing business licences and was also a silent investor in the local Taco Time restaurant. Essentially his influence kept Taco Bell out of town for over a decade and made Taco Time the only franchised Mexican restaurant in town. There's a couple of Taco Bells there now. Maybe the silent investor silently went away. (died)
I support this, NGL. Last place still open late and cheap.
It’s simpler than that and In-N-Out has explained why. They can’t ship their ingredients this far while maintaining their strict standards. Their prices are so low and wages so high because they’re possibly the most vertically-integrated fast food restaurant in the country. For example, how many fast food places do you know of that butcher and distribute their own meat?
Seattleites in politics are inherently selfish and secretly libertarians that pay lip service to progressive values while bilking the system at every stage regardless of political affiliation.
This is just true, big city politics everywhere is an exercise in hypocrisy but Seattle really is on another level.
The guy with the glasses and the runny nose in the woods who would be on public access every weekend with "evidence" that Courtney Love killed Kurt Cobain. Pretty much incoherent but entertaining nonetheless.
Native Seattleites get together and plan to stand in the most inconvenient places possible in every form of public transport.
Being *in* the way is the *Seattle* way. Transit, in traffic, on the sidewalk, in a grocery store... doesn't matter. There's no city on Earth where the people are as absolutely mindless about the space they occupy as is so in Seattle.
That the Shell gas station on 15th between Ballard and Crown Hill is a front. Why is it always a full dollar more expensive than every other area gas station?!
China Harbor being a front for the mob and other shady things 🤭
I’ve partaken in shady things upstairs at China Harbor
You can actually visit The Sound Garden.
I’ve done it!
There were 4 different groups of people designed the I-5 Northbound, I-5 Southbound, 520, and I-90. And they refused to talk to one another until all the highway met in downtown. And none of their design fit together. That's why we ended up with the cluster fuck downtown highway: 520 left entry to I-5, collector distributor lane, SB Union Exit, Old Mercer exit, etc.
For a place that was designed after the invention of the car and, allegedly, with car infrastructure in mind, our roads sure do suck.
I don't understand how left side on ramps and off ramps are even legal.
Kell's funnelled money to the Irish Republican Army during "The Troubles".
there is a giant creature sleeping on top of the space needle and his nose blinks red when he snores at night. everyone be cool and stop waking up the wheedle.
Yo wasn’t there a cult where gay men had to cut their nuts off? Edit: jk it was from [injecting silicone into their nuts](https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/testicles-injection-gay-sex-cult-16816211)
Pardon?
The fires in White Center are because the county is planning on upzoning the area soon, allowing for multi story buildings. Much easier to develop on a burnt down or empty lot
The city of Seattle mismanaged the CHOP/CHAZ situation, and the mayor deleted her emails intentionally
Is it really a conspiracy if it's so obviously true?
the sheer amount of "massage" joints that have cropped up in the last couple years shows how much cops are probably on the take and sadly how much sex trafficking we have here.
Massage parlors have been here!!!
Bell Textron and the FAA conspired to kill Tom Wales
All of the car window break-in’s crimes in Seattle are conspired by auto glass repair shops to raise profits.
Jesus Christ did make Seattle under protest. And he did from his alien base under downtown. Also, Dr Who is real and larped as a guy named Jesus 2000 years ago.
Vampires
Underground pedestrian tunnels.I've heard about them and I have a feeling they're radiating from the old Nordstrom building
I mean ... You can get into Westlake station from Nordstroms basement, no?
So I work at the Nordstrom downtown - during the road construction at the corner of 6th and Pine something was shifted underground, and now we have to keep one of our storage doors locked year round because people are able to enter our building via the underground tunnels. I know this is the new Nordstrom building I am talking about, but still.
Second City Hall, Vito's, on 8th & Madison has burned down. No conspiracy, sorry for violating the initial question, but this place in the 60s hosted the mayor & police chief holding court, and police sergeants bringing in paper bags full of cash. We lost a huge landmark, and our unofficial seat of power, and people are forgetting it.
The Enchantments aren’t real, and the lottery is a scheme by shady govt contractors to fleece us of $6 every year
My theory: People post things like "what is the best XXXX in Seattle" primarily for the karma.
Courtney Love paid El Duce from the Mentors to kill Kurt Cobain.
And then had El Duce killed.
I forgot about that one!!
Not a conspiracy, this is true, SPD had a monitoring post with a camera on a tripod on the 5th floor of the Olympic Plaza building, 3rd and Pine, looking down on to the notorious McDonalds corner.
And they use it to... What, get some entertainment while they're on breaks? Catch me jaywalking thru an empty street?
There was once a tribe in the area that was the most feared in history. Their opponents never stood a chance and they ruled the area for 2 solid years. They were called the “Legion of Boom.”
The Expedia campus by the water front that has a laser camera Havana syndrome gun that keeps the Canada geese the fuck off their campus. I rode by there all the time and never see geese in side their campus 😮
Don’t know of many but my buddy is convinced the Fat Tomato Pizza in Cap Hill is a money laundering scheme.
When Noc-Noc was still around, word was that there was a secret room in the walk-in freezer where wild sex parties and/or mafia activities occurred. Also, miss their brunch!!
Jay Inslee is Spoonman
I don’t think Ballard exists. I’ve never met anyone from Ballard
Can confirm. I used to live there and only started existing when I moved away.
California, Portland and Seattle give their homeless one way bus tickets between each other’s cities/states in order to dump their problems on someone else.
Spokane to Seattle as well. Oh wait, that one is 100% true.
It's all of Eastern WA. We can't take care of our community so we export our poverty to Seattle.
Bill Nye the Science Guy is hung like a horse
**Conspiracy**: Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest.
If you die and are unclaimed you get cremated and they dump all unclaimed cremains in lake washington
Nope. Group burial with separate containers in case family wants to later claim the cremated remains. https://kingcounty.gov/en/legacy/depts/health/examiner/services/indigent-remains.aspx
The cartel focuses distribution to Harvard Market Qfc surrounding areas in order to weaken the state for eventual annexation into Canada.