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Ringing in the New Year... Beach Drive style!

In granting you all the best wishes for 2012, I thought you might get a grin out of an old tradition that happened right here in our hood...  

Photo courtesy Southwest Seattle Histocial Soceity

According to info submitted by the SWSHS Log House Museum folks, this 6 inch high brass bell named the Pioneer Bell...

"made it's way to Washington by way of the Oregon Trail. The family who owned it settled on what is now Beach Drive in West Seattle. Whenever a new family settled there, the neighbors welcomed the newcomers by joining in a procession, led by a community member ringing this bell. It was also used to ring in the new year."

I wonder if the parade ever came down this scene of Beach Drive photographed by the City of Seattle back in 1927...

Beach Drive Blog highly recommends that anyone with a "history tooth" consider joining, donating or volunteering at the local museum. Rumour has it that they have many more photos to share:). Speaking of photos, does anyone have access to images of the Schmitz Estate that used to reside in Mee-Kwa-Mooks park or the restaurant named Quisnell's that used to operate at the base of Jacobson Street?  

Best wishes in 2012!

Scupper, reporting for Beach Drive Blog

Holiday Wishes from Beach Drive Blog

This month year has been pretty busy with my day job in the mortgage biz demanding most of my attention. With my husband, aka Scupper, helping out with this blog and recently joining my mortgage team, I know you'll be seeing more articles coming your way from Beach Drive Blog.  We also welcome your contributions of articles, topics and photos of all things Beach Drive.

From our home to yours, we wish you a very Merry Christmas and a healthy Happy New Year.

PS: It's not too late to send us your holiday photos!

Argosy Christmas Ships cruising by tomorrow night

The Argosy Chrismas ships will be sailing along the Beach Drive waterfront on Saturday, December 10, 2011.   Here's the schedule from their website:

Departing Pier 55 at 8:0 pm

Lowman Park 8:50 - 9:10 pm

Alki from 9:40 - 10:00 pm

Speaking of the holidays, we at Beach Drive Blog, invite you to email us photos of your decked out Beach Drive homes...then Scupper and I won't have to feel boarderline creepy driving around and taking photos of your illuminated homes and yards in the evenings!

 

 

Happy Halloween from Beach Drive Blog

This spook-tacular home is located by Andover and Beach Drive, next to Andover Park (a street-end park). 

Creeps hanging around this Beach Drive condo...

Anyone lend these guys a big can of Raid?

Halloween on Beach Drive

We spied this bone-chilling house on the 4800 block of Beach Drive the other day.

With Halloween just a few days away, it would be spooktacular to share photos of your haunted Beach Drive homes, ghoulish carved pumpkins and spooky pets dressed in costumes on the blog.  Email us your photos before Halloween!

 

 

Happy Independence Day

 
This photo was captured at the 4200 block of Beach Drive.

Tis the Season

 
Special holiday greeting to Jim for submitting this photo of a lovely Christmas display on Beach Drive by Andover Park. 

If you have a holiday photo of a Beach Drive home or pet that you'd like to share on the blog, please send us an email.  

Argosy Christmas Ships

The 2010 schedule is out for the Argosy Christmas Ships.  They will cruise to West Seattle on December 11, 2010 featuring The Dickens Carolers.   Departing Pier 55 at 8:00 p.m., they are scheduled to arrive at Lowman Beach from 8:50 - 9:10 p.m.    The ships will then head to Alki Beach from 9:40 - 10:00 p.m.

The Christmas Ship is sold out for December 11, 2010 however tickets are still available (at the writing of this post) for a Follow Boat, or you can join the flotilla with your own boat.   Of course you can also join neighbors and friends at Lowman and Alki where there's sure to be bon fires and holiday festivities or even enjoy the merriment from your home.

Here are some photos from a couple years ago.

Can you believe that Christmas is just two months away?   Happy Holidays!

Should We Expect Many Trick-or-Treaters?

I just received this comment from our Halloween post today:

We're new to Beach Drive (near Mee Kwa Mooks park) this year and were wondering if we should be expecting many trick-or-treaters this year.   Should we stock up on candy?

It would be great if fellow Beach Drive neighbors could chime in on their typical Trick-or-Treater turn-out.  

My advice is to always buy candy you enjoy...just in case!