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Bell Street Pier "Are you the guard for the Pier?" "No, for the store by the Pier." "Oh, good. We should have protection from those bums who camp out by the elevator. Protection for the people who live here. We're from Phoenix and are buying a waterfront condo for half a mil." |
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Well- Those guys under the viaduct, on the bank overlooking Elliot Bay- Salmon People - been here twelve thousand years (longer, if you ask them) Lot's of photos of their canoes pulled up into this marsh - or Alaskan Way . Photos of them watching traders in canoes- shellfish, bits of gossip, net awls, measuring tools, roots and smiles. |
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A hotel and two ten story office building will block the condos built last year. |
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"Take it under the Viaduct, Boys." The cops would say. Hard luck drunks, veterans of very foriegn wars all beat up, sodden brained fishers, taking it under the viaduct. They sit in the shelter of the 99 highway bridge and pass the bottle- tell the same tales throw the glass against the legs of concrete. The Way is fenced and locked. Hard on the feet, concrete. |
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Slow down- don't run over the Salmon People - on your fast way home inside your box of concrete. |
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