When Seattle Was Gritty
A lot has changed in the Evergreen City, but not everything.
5 min readNov 20, 2019
In the summer of 1988, my family moved from Los Angeles to the Seattle area to start a new business. As a twelve year old kid I knew very little about the city except that it was home to the Sonics, Seahawks and Mariners (sports trading cards were a big deal back then.)