I think "Honey Bucket Apts" would be worse. But if you think that people are going to associate the actual story with the name, rather than the Jazz Age excess that people still want to indulge, I think you're overestimating The Great Gatsby's place in American culture (as opposed to American literature and art).
What you mean is, are you a vain, sad-sack shell of a man who wants to end up dead in a swimming pool after you've nailed the girl of your dreams a few times?
The only thing worse is living across the street from the construction of said apartment building for a year and half only to wake up one day to having them named Gatsby. The cringe was felt across the world, because now I live across the street from the fucking Gatsby and the $2800 one bedroom apartments. There goes the neighborhood!
The hands-down winner of awful, tacky apartments/condos has to be that godawful overblown Italian-esque monstrosity at Fourth and Virginia. They are probably very nice spaces, with doubtless wonderful views, but what a complete dog of a building.
1) probably didn't read the book
2)Can we please have a moratorium on these stupid sandwich board signs blocking the sidewalk? (I amended this one to could we please get rid of these? It's just ridiculous to have five in one spot. And I don't even live on Capital Hill.)
I have an idea. Segregate posts like these into a separate blog, and toss in restaurant reviews and music criticism. Call it something different. "Time Out"? Something like that. Leave Jen for The Slog, though.
@14 The Escala! OMG and holy crap! Neo-pseudo-proto-Greco bonanza, where the quasi-greek motif around the cornice looks just like the Motel 6 logo! The tower itself is quite mundane, but that base--hoo-eee. I was told that the lobby is that much and more, so I strolled in the other day to see it and was promptly bounced by the officious concierge.
So, Catalina dear, though we will never agree on the City Light building, we certainly do on this one. xxxooo
A while back I was strolling up Prefontaine, and there was a sandwich board that said "Punch" on it. So I reached down and punched it, lightly with my fist. Several concerned curators of the Punch Gallery cascaded outside shaking their heads at me manhandling their sign. I gave them a look. "Well, it said ... " Guess Dada isn't one of their specialties.
Personally, I find the sidewalk cafes that encroach more annoying as a pedestrian. The Greenlake Bar and Grill cage along the greenlake drive side pops up sun umbrellas (shorter than 8 ft clearance), dog dishes outside the fence, bike racks and light poles and parking meters, and reduces the sidewalk to a two foot passage with an overhang, despite regulations requiring 5 ft. http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/ca… https://www.google.com/maps/@47.680508,-…
I can think of way worse apartment names. They don't give a shit about the book, they're banking on the name. And they'll get tons of applicants so it doesn't matter anyway.
Capitalism. Commercialism. It'll work because blah blah blah what's that? who cares?! Buzz word!
As usual, you are all wrong again. "Gatsby" is the single and most honest name for a new apartment building on Capitol Hill or Seattle for that matter. Move here and reinvent yourself. Move here and be that success you always wanted to be and told anyone who would listen you would become. Move here and she might actually love you. Move here and you can perpetuate the scam that is your youth.
There's a townhouse development (maybe it's condos) out on Cougar Mountain called Satomi - I didn't think anything about it until a friend of mine completely innocently and accidentally pronounced it "sodomy." Now it's all I think of when I see it, and I laaaafffff.
She wasn't very bright ... there's another neighborhood out that way called Montreaux and she pronounced it "montrocks." The kicker? She was a real estate agent ... :)
@ChefJoe Well, four feet is the legal minimum, not five. But agreed, often not even that width is maintained.
Funniest name, to me, was the building in Ballard named 'Steve's Apartments'. I always figured Steve was a huge prick for naming an entire building after him.
Don't forget that gorgeous purple-tiled building across from the Stimpson-Green Mansion on Minor and Seneca, Ms. Vel Du-Ray. No catchy name, but at least as glam as the Panorama.
If you've never seen the inside of the apartments at the Olive 8... so Gatsby-esque.
I'm royally annoyed by the one called "Belay" on 15th Avenue in Ballard. How the term for holding a rope while someone else climbs is appropriate for an apartment building's name confounds me. I think they probably just liked the way it sounds.
There's one by my place called the Vertigo. I know that they're trying for a cool, sleek San Francisco post mod Hitchcock thing but, really...it's a disease.
How about the Impatigo, the Eczema, the Cirrhosis?
@43, Being Ballard, I read it in the nautical context of making a line fast to a cleat or "belaying pin" on a boat. Still, a stupid name for a building.
My favorite in Ballard? "The Heidi", one could imagine a hot blonde in pigtails, holding two huge frosty mugs of beer, awaiting your return after a hard day's work!
Six shooter dear, I've been in that building, and it's lovely, but it has no balconies. Balconies - real balconies, not those weird 1' deep ones - are essential for really glamorous living. Would Doris Marin live in an apartment without a balcony? The answer is no.
There's also that one on northish Capitol Hill, west of Broadway. The Lamplighter? That one's pretty glam. And, of course, the Maison Ville.
Let's not forget the Elektra, Ms. Vel-DuRay. No amount of polish will shine that turd.
I'd move the the Marlborough, but you need more than a fancy name and round walls for me to cross Boren for longer than absolutely necessary. "Down" town, indeed.
Along these lines, Sauk Centre, the down in central Minnesota where Sinclair Lewis is from, and the place on which he based his fictional Gopher Prairie for the novel Main Street, apparently really prides itself on being linked to a famous author. Except, instead of signs shouting, "Hometown of Sinclair Lewis!" there are signs EVERYWHERE proclaiming, "The ORIGINAL Main Street!!!" Umm...did you guys read the book? You know that's not a good thing right? It's really trippy.
I would say Bananafish Apartments would be worse.
Welcome to Gregor Samsa Flats!
You'll wake up a new man...er...creature...insect, really.
2)Can we please have a moratorium on these stupid sandwich board signs blocking the sidewalk? (I amended this one to could we please get rid of these? It's just ridiculous to have five in one spot. And I don't even live on Capital Hill.)
At least the Penthouses can be labelled East Egg and West Egg.
Just an idea.
So, Catalina dear, though we will never agree on the City Light building, we certainly do on this one. xxxooo
A while back I was strolling up Prefontaine, and there was a sandwich board that said "Punch" on it. So I reached down and punched it, lightly with my fist. Several concerned curators of the Punch Gallery cascaded outside shaking their heads at me manhandling their sign. I gave them a look. "Well, it said ... " Guess Dada isn't one of their specialties.
House of Mirth Apartments
Beloved Apartments
Bluest Eye Apartments
Shining Apartments
Death of a Salesman Apartments
http://www.djc.com/blogs/SeattleScape/20…
Personally, I find the sidewalk cafes that encroach more annoying as a pedestrian. The Greenlake Bar and Grill cage along the greenlake drive side pops up sun umbrellas (shorter than 8 ft clearance), dog dishes outside the fence, bike racks and light poles and parking meters, and reduces the sidewalk to a two foot passage with an overhang, despite regulations requiring 5 ft. http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/ca…
https://www.google.com/maps/@47.680508,-…
Capitalism. Commercialism. It'll work because blah blah blah what's that? who cares?! Buzz word!
She wasn't very bright ... there's another neighborhood out that way called Montreaux and she pronounced it "montrocks." The kicker? She was a real estate agent ... :)
Funniest name, to me, was the building in Ballard named 'Steve's Apartments'. I always figured Steve was a huge prick for naming an entire building after him.
If you've never seen the inside of the apartments at the Olive 8... so Gatsby-esque.
The downtown urban core requires 6 ft with a 4 ft visual corridor.
How about the Impatigo, the Eczema, the Cirrhosis?
My favorite in Ballard? "The Heidi", one could imagine a hot blonde in pigtails, holding two huge frosty mugs of beer, awaiting your return after a hard day's work!
There's also that one on northish Capitol Hill, west of Broadway. The Lamplighter? That one's pretty glam. And, of course, the Maison Ville.
I'd move the the Marlborough, but you need more than a fancy name and round walls for me to cross Boren for longer than absolutely necessary. "Down" town, indeed.