When an airplane flies overhead at the Georgetown Trailer Park Mall, near the site of Seattle’s original Boeing Field airport and just miles north of Sea-Tac, it’s so close that it feels disorienting. Even awe-inspiring. How did we get here, perusing upcycled Pez dispensers in an outcropping of vintage Airstreams as flying machines skim the rooftops?
And then that nagging question emerges, one that wiggles its way into the cracks of each eccentricity in a city intent on pricing them out: Will it last?
What remnants exist of Old Seattle, the way people remember it before the tech boom, are mostly trapped in bar
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