Urban Decay: Seattle’s Gasworks Park

Several weekends ago, zaiah and I went up to Seattle for the weekend. One fo the hilights of the trip while I was there was visiting Gasworks Park, a large public part down on the waterfront, built on the site of an old and long-abandoned coal gasification plant.

We met up with peristaltor while we were out there (and as a side note, if you don’t read his journal, you should–it’s one of the smartest reads on LiveJournal).

The old gasification equipment is still there, slowly crumbling into rust. Some of it is now fenced off, which is a damn shame–I’d love to spend an afternoon with a couple of models and about forty feet of rope out here. I’m told the fences are new; and to some extent, I can kind of understand it–if some damn fool falls off one of these things and busts his head open, I guarantee the first thing he’s going to do is retain a lawyer to sue the city, before he even gets stitched up, even though it’s not “the city” what put his ass up there in the first place.

Anyway, I spent a good bit of time taking pictures, because that’s what I do, and now I’m going to bust your bandwidth, because that’s also what I do.

  

  

  

There were three wedding parties here the same day we were. It’s an unorthodox setting for a wedding, I’ll warrant, but I highly approve.

I mention this because if I ever start a religious cult, I think the cult services will look something like this:

22 thoughts on “Urban Decay: Seattle’s Gasworks Park

  1. One of my favourite things when I was little was when my mom would take me to gasworks park and I could climb all over the structures, before most of the fences went up. It was also a favourite hangout place when I was a teenager–especially when we were supposed to be in school.

  2. One of my favourite things when I was little was when my mom would take me to gasworks park and I could climb all over the structures, before most of the fences went up. It was also a favourite hangout place when I was a teenager–especially when we were supposed to be in school.

  3. Judging by how much money the cult I worked for earlier this year raked in, that would totally solve both of our financial problems! I’d be in total support of you starting a cult, if it weren’t for these damn ethics of mine!

    And considering the bullshit that was purchased at a whopping 7 grand a head for a single seminar, I’m sure you could do *way* better!

  4. Judging by how much money the cult I worked for earlier this year raked in, that would totally solve both of our financial problems! I’d be in total support of you starting a cult, if it weren’t for these damn ethics of mine!

    And considering the bullshit that was purchased at a whopping 7 grand a head for a single seminar, I’m sure you could do *way* better!

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