Here are some images from two of my favorite neighborhoods in Seattle, Wallingford and the adjoining Fremont. They are full of arts and crafts homes and Fremont borders Lake Union and has the Gas Works Park on the shores. The QFC supermarket at the corner of N 45th Street and Wallingford Avenue N "may be regarded as the center of Walingford; its large WALLINGFORD neon sign (see below) is made in part from letters in the old FOOD GIANT sign that adorned QFC's predecessor for decades." Wikipedia comments of Fremont: "Sometimes referred to as "The People's Republic of Fremont"[2] or "The Artists' Republic of Fremont,” and at one time a center of the counterculture, Fremont has become somewhat gentrified in recent years. The neighborhood remains home to a controversial statue of Lenin salvaged from Slovakia by a local art lover who was teaching in the area at the time."
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