Post AYQO4qi0REFEDDBH3g by KenDisbrow@mastodon.social
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 (DIR) Post #AYQNdlqSPgN9JDDocy by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-08-05T15:21:27Z
       
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       During college, I sometimes hung out at a quirky little tucked-away coffeehouse in Seattle. Years later, I looked for it on a visit and couldn't find it or remember its name. But a friend mentioned it last night, and I immediately looked it up! It was The Last Exit, and I had no idea it had such an interesting history. I just knew it felt like stepping into a magical "other" place.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Exit_on_Brooklyn
       
 (DIR) Post #AYQO4qi0REFEDDBH3g by KenDisbrow@mastodon.social
       2023-08-05T15:26:24Z
       
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       @grammargirl I remember this place! Went to UW for my first year of undergrad degree (transferred to another school for remainder of undergrad). I didn’t really know it had such a history. Very cool - thanks for bringing back a few memories.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYQO7z1C04raqteKtk by Probertd8@mastodonapp.uk
       2023-08-05T15:26:56Z
       
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       @grammargirl And I was thinking Café Nervosa?
       
 (DIR) Post #AYQOTxTIQocWQTH0nQ by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-08-05T15:30:54Z
       
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       @Probertd8 I remember that one too!!!
       
 (DIR) Post #AYQQZlcRbxv1JPRxOi by jimfl@hachyderm.io
       2023-08-05T15:54:23Z
       
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       @grammargirl Amazing. As I read the first sentence, visions of the Last Exit filled my head. I spent an inordinate amount of time in that place from the mid 80s to the early 90s (when I graduated from UW, I turned around and started working there, so, kept up my Last Exit habit.)Rumor has it that the marble tables along the walls had a previous life as urinal dividers in a correctional facility.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYQSDU0abe9CEPFHWa by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-08-05T16:12:45Z
       
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       @jimfl How wonderful!
       
 (DIR) Post #AYQSMVNGthRH4d9mzI by jimfl@hachyderm.io
       2023-08-05T16:14:22Z
       
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       @grammargirl I realize upon a second reading that “I turned around and started working there” is ambiguous. I worked at the UW, not at the Last Exit.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYQSa8dSElT4bWE91k by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-08-05T16:16:49Z
       
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       @jimfl Ah, I thought you had worked at The Last Exit.When I couldn't find it again, I knew, of course, that it had closed. But a small part of me wanted to believe it had gone back through the mists to fairyland.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYQTGGkATsqJujSO80 by jimfl@hachyderm.io
       2023-08-05T16:24:28Z
       
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       @grammargirl When Irv died, the Exit lost its lease in that quaint building, and it moved to the corner of 52nd and the Ave. it wasn’t quite the same vibe. I hiatused from the PNW for a few years after that, and I don’t know how long it lasted, or whether it was still going when I came back.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYQVgKshv3woBV0a9o by PeteZ@mastodonbooks.net
       2023-08-05T16:51:33Z
       
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       @grammargirl Reminds me of Clarke’s descriptions of The White Hart. I lived in the Seattle burbs in the late 80s and early 90s. So I could have gone. But I’d never heard of it. Bummer. If you haven’t read Arthur C. Clarke’s “Tales From the White Hart”, i think you’d really like it. It’s a collection of short stories the last of which is “The Defenstration of Ermintrude Inch”.
       
 (DIR) Post #AYQWBdVmhbv4wUDBPE by grammargirl@zirk.us
       2023-08-05T16:57:17Z
       
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       @PeteZ Thanks! "Tales from the White Heart" does sound like something I'd enjoy.