Subject: [Tweeters] Montlake Landfill - Seattle (circa 1964)
Date: Feb 18 12:28:35 2014
From: Jeff Gibson - gibsondesign at msn.com





Al, thanks for this flash from the past.

It was kind of funny for me, because I'd just been thinking of the first time I'd ever been to the fill. That was about 1971 or 72 when I was in high school. The dumping had stopped by then, and my only memories were of newly grassed fill, with methane vent pipes sticking out all over. One could get a small thrill by lighting these marsh farts with a match or lighter.

Born and raised in Seattle, as were my parents, I thought my dad , being a car guy, would enjoy seeing the film of vintage vehicles, and he did - as well as could be seen on my Iphone. (I'm currently helping my elderly folks here in Port Townsend, without a computer).

We were West Seattlelites and our city dump, circa this same period of the early 60, was the vast open air dump down somewhere off West Marginal Way, down the Duwamish ( or "dumbwash" as my dad used to say - and that name fit the general land use practices of the day quite nicely I feel). I have childhood memories of the giant piles of garbage, and thousands of gulls. As to David Williams query about other birds around, all I remember is gulls, no crows etc. I was young but a naturalist even then. Seattleites of the 60's and earlier, may remember the days back then, when taking a Washington State Ferry across the Sound, the boat would just dump all of its waste - milk cartons, food scraps, and probably poop - in a big garbage slick out in the middle of the Sound. Lots more gull behind the ferries in those days! Now an uber- slick society producing even more ridiculous waste than ever, we have learned to outsource our dumps - out of sight, out of mind. Wow, what progress! Jeff Gibsonposting from Port Townsend Public Library

From: aclark at wamail.net
To: tweeters at u.washington.edu
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2014 23:22:13 -0800
Subject: [Tweeters] Montlake Landfill - Seattle (circa 1964)






You Tube Video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3PNpmEaAxk&feature=youtube_gdata_player


Al in Tacoma
alndonna at wamail.net



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