Fremont's Quirky Reputation Goes Global

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The one where you don't get shanked in the face?

Foghorn Leghorn on January 28, 2011 at 8:39 AM

Ugh, Fratmont. What the hell happened there?

leek on January 28, 2011 at 8:51 AM

@2,

Please tell me how one neighborhood has a monopoly on fraternity brothers' patronage.

Please also demonstrate how Ballard, Capitol Hill, Queen Anne, the U-Dist and Belltown have been able to remain fraternity free.

Thanks.

Jeff on January 28, 2011 at 9:00 AM

@3, a monopoly? I don't believe I said any such thing. Obviously there are douches across multiple neighborhoods. However, Fremont's the only neighborhood I know of that's gone from "ordinary place to hang out" to "if you drive through there on a weekend night, you will be forced to stop as big guys and tiny girls in high heels stagger drunkenly across the street giggling, sometimes forgetting where they are halfway across and standing there blankly."

leek on January 28, 2011 at 9:10 AM

Fremont's as quirky as a ham and cheese sandwich.

DOUG. on January 28, 2011 at 9:12 AM

There are certain words that are supposed to be code for something good but that are actually code for something awful. For example, "eclectic". Decoded: "I am an indiscriminate cipher. I eat anything in the trough, then parade my complete lack of standards as though it were a mark of my broad-mindedness." And "quirky"? Decoded: "My personality is a bloodless tabula rasa, but I have this grab-bag repertoire of memorized idiosyncrasies that will hopefully make it more interesting. Ta-da!"

Fucking Fremont.

Quintus Slide on January 28, 2011 at 9:21 AM

You had me at "tiny girls in high heels stagger drunkenly across the street giggling." Gotta go there.

Fifty-Two-Eighty on January 28, 2011 at 9:24 AM

don't neglect the sheer magnitude of Thai restaurants in Fremont. wtf.

diggum on January 28, 2011 at 9:25 AM

a taxy? in joburgh? u crazy charles. with all the kidnappings.

the other thing they didnt add was, avoid being zimbawean or from mozambique. despite of what the goverment says, south africans are mean as hell to folks from those countries. when it comes to xenophobia they make the arizonans look like lefty activists.

SeMe on January 28, 2011 at 9:34 AM

@Leek,

"Obviously there are douches across multiple neighborhoods."

My point exactly. Thanks for playing.

Jeff on January 28, 2011 at 9:38 AM

Wow, Jeff, you showed me. Yowch!

leek on January 28, 2011 at 10:13 AM

You know what's really funny? You're describing Fremont as "urban" - hahaha! It's college kids living in the 'burbs. Oh Seattle. You just want to pat it on the head sometimes.

Confluence on January 28, 2011 at 10:31 AM

Leek: "if you drive through there on a weekend night, you will be forced to stop as big guys and tiny girls in high heels stagger drunkenly across the street giggling, sometimes forgetting where they are halfway across and standing there blankly."

Are you really trying to say this doesn't occur regularly on Pike/Pine? Or Ballard Ave? Or Belltown? Or Pioneer Square?

schmacky on January 28, 2011 at 10:40 AM

Schmacky: For sure it happens places like Belltown and Pioneer Square. You may have missed the part about how it's "gone from an ordinary place to hang out," however. I don't understand why this is getting everyone up in arms.

I live on Ballard Ave, and thankfully it hasn't gotten as bad as Fremont. But I'm starting to worry.

leek on January 28, 2011 at 10:49 AM

@13,

There's no comparison. There are still many places for adults to drink in Ballard (even Belltown) on Friday and Saturday night. I'll be damned if there's a single adult bar left in Fremont on the weekends. Anyone over the age of 25 should only visit the neighborhood on weekdays.

keshmeshi on January 28, 2011 at 11:25 AM

To all Fremont's transition from, as Leek puts it, an "ordinary place to hang out", to a carbon copy of the Pi Square/south Ave scene has been remarkable in both scope and quickness. I can't remember those areas being substantively different than they are now, but I do remember when Fremont was quite different.

Hernandez on January 28, 2011 at 11:46 AM

Everyone loves us.

In fact, of the top 10 tourist spots in Seattle, half are in Fremont.

Have a pitcher of cider at the Red Door and enjoy your visit to our Organic Fair Trade Chocolate Factory!

Will in Seattle on January 28, 2011 at 12:23 PM

@16 yeah, I loved the quirky coffee shops and dive bars too. There are still a few, though.

Will in Seattle on January 28, 2011 at 12:24 PM

@12 technically, Fremont was a city long before it was part of Seattle.

Will in Seattle on January 28, 2011 at 12:25 PM

the bbc has got to lay off seattle. total quirky has been.

aardvark on January 28, 2011 at 12:34 PM

"In fact, of the top 10 tourist spots in Seattle, half are in Fremont."

Your toenail clippings are NOT a tourist attraction, Will.

DOUG. on January 28, 2011 at 12:59 PM

I probably haven't been to Fremont at night in over 15 years. I was not aware of it's apparently sudden Abercromorphosis.

What's that place on Fremont, just up the hill a ways, maybe around 40th or so, has a parking lot. When I live nearby in the 90's, a lot of bikers hung out there. That still there?

Dougsf on January 28, 2011 at 1:26 PM

dougsf: This one?

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/lo…

leek on January 28, 2011 at 1:41 PM

@23 - That was it. Guess that answers my question. Bummer.

Dougsf on January 28, 2011 at 1:58 PM

It depends on the type of tourist. The bucket list tourist should go to Johannesburg. The tourist who appreciates her time away from work and wants to relax on her hard earned holiday should go to Fremont.

Mrs Jarvie on January 28, 2011 at 6:56 PM

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