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that’s actually really sad. sigh.
Where was this taken? I’d totally take one of those and find some wacky DIY project to make with one.
That is such a depressing photo 🙁
South Lake Union. Around Harrison St, if I’m correct.
I want one of those.
oh, i totally want one of those.
Dumpsters? You can find those anywhere, boxofbirds.
Oh, noooooo.
The building in the shot is owned by the Seattle Times and is full of junk / newspaper stands.
At night there’s a creepy light that you can see on through the windows too.
I want the huge globe off the top of the P-I’s building. What’s happening to THAT?
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I may listen to more Einsturzende Neubauten than the next guy, but that looks music waiting to happen . . .
That’s right outside the Times building as someone else pointed out. It’s a newsstand graveyard.
And you’re apologizing to him why?
I’d have figured those would go in the blue, recycling tote.
I’m going to guess that these have been in the Dumpster for a while — but I may be wrong. After all, these cheapskate newspaper dudes wouldn’t just trash good metal. Each of those boxes is worth like $10 on eBay — together, they’re worth more than any of the Times’ other holdings.
Sad, sad.
“Print is dead”, they say.
Long live print, long live print!
This dumpster will be recycled. Not go to a land fill.
The parking lot at the North Creek distribution center was entirely full of delivery trucks today. I had never seen that before.
hey Stranger – remember when The Tablet took one of your pissed on broken newstands and fixed it up? You then threw the biggest pussy hissyfit and demended it’s return.
yeah, we don’t forget.
Aaron, this upsets me greatly. You’ll never be invited to a halloween party again.
And what happend to Tablet again? How long ago?
What the photographer fails to mention is that machines, both Seattle Times and P-I have been disposed of for many weeks now a storage facility, storing of old worn out equipment, needed to be moved vacated. The Stranger just choose to publish a photo of P-I equipment only. Typical Stranger mode of operation.
The Tablet was rad.
@ 24, the image is no less relevant given what’s happening. Nice way to be a wet blanket.
Tablet lasted as long as who cares.
Anybody here got any old copies of Tablet they’re willing to give away or sell? I’m looking to build a library of old Seattle alternative newspapers, and working on a book about the same, and I sure wish I never tossed my Tablets back in the day.
these are just old worn out boxes to be recycled, nothing to do with PI closing down…
Can you do some reporting, please? Maybe an explanation as to why these boxes are in the dumpster?
Another request for information: if I take one, will some poor security guard try to take it away from me?
Dunno how much these cost, but I do know they’re tough. During WTO, the Times didn’t lose a single one.
@31: Yep, with any luck.
Jeez – it’s bad enough you won’t pay for the paper. Now you want to steal the scrap off their backs???
http://www.thesouthlake.com/2009/01/16/p…
remember the black-spray-painted-and-padlocked boxes? Who did that, anyway?
@32: They cost about $400 new, including painted logos. Yeah, they are build like tanks, even if you light them on fire they pretty much remain structurally sound. That’s why people use them to stop or damage police cars in riots, something I wholeheartedly encourage, but pick a corporate news box rather than an indie one please.
@21: I was the person the re-appropriated the Stranger box, how the hell does anyone besides me remember that? I looked at it as a DIY art project to restore something that was trashed. After Tablet folded all our boxes and racks got reused by other publications, which we encouraged.
@28: I have all the leftover Tablet’s in my basement, I’m sure I can put a set together for you if you’re not in a rush. It’s about 8 boxes to go through.
Nice to hear kind words about Tablet, it was fun to do and I think contributed to and supported our local music and arts scene. We had a good 103 issue run, it wasn’t something we could do forever, it was a part time gig on top of full time jobs for all of us–that’s a lot of work. Sadly we are seeing the death of print serials/periodicals/newspapers, I manage a library, I see how widespread it is. While book reading is actually up, the Web is now the main source for our news. Even popular papers like The Stranger have drastically shrunk in size. I’m sure within the next three years either The Stranger or The Weekly will fold too, it’s a sign of the times. And I certainly don’t want to see it happen, I love alt-weeklies and will miss them a lot more than mainstream newspapers. I read an interview with Savage or Keck where they predicted The Stranger’s fate over a year ago, but I think it’s a publication that is already making the transition to the Web with bogs, forums and online only content. I don’t think I’ve picked up a print copy in a year, I read it on my PC or phone.
They aren’t being dumpstered, they are being resold to newspaper vendors in other towns. Unless they are in nasty shape, then recycled.
If you want one call Doug Musselman-Brown at 206.464.2720.