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@elfin @juliewebgirl And then Taco Time added extra salt and christened them "MEXI FRIES"

`Da Elf Feb 22, 2023

@spacehobo @juliewebgirl Yup.

Julie clued me in on Taco Time's history as well (they're actually a restaurant, not Taco Bell).

@elfin @juliewebgirl Well, they're not that far beyond taco bell in terms of quality of food. In the 80s, you really had to hunt to find even passable Mexican food in Seattle, but all the Angelenos who moved there in the 70s dragged some up with them if you knew where to look.

`Da Elf Feb 22, 2023

@spacehobo @juliewebgirl Ignoring the really good Taco Trucks around, I've banaged to find some really good places (White Center has much good Mexican), but I've only lived here a decade.

I'm surprised that it took that long for good Mex to move up the coast, especially with Seattle being a Foodie Town and ethnic foodie at that, as long as I've lived close to the Pacific Ocean.

@elfin @spacehobo
*deep breath*
Ok. So.
1990 ish... Massive Californians moved up here. (Thanks Bill.) Bought a new thing dubbed the McMansion, bringing their SUVs with them. Said Street of Dreams™ houses had huge swaths of mono-crops ie grass lawns. HOAs declared those must be maintained... It was the lure of easy money... Sorry no, not the white stuff, the green stuff... and your Mexican brothers moved up en masse to care for lawns and build houses. THEN good Mexican food.

@juliewebgirl @elfin The WWI-era home I grew up in with the wide yard was bulldozed in the 2000s to build a double-wide snouthouse without a front door.

@spacehobo @elfin What's a snouthouse?

@juliewebgirl @elfin A house with a garage in front instead of hidden off to the side or behind like the shame it should be.

@spacehobo @elfin Ohhh. Like every house in America that has a garage? Good name for them.

@juliewebgirl @elfin Nah, some older ones have carports on the side, or driveways leading to the garage in the back garden. But a snouthouse just replaces the front door with a front garage, and usually fails The Trick-or-Treat Test.

@spacehobo @elfin Wait, no front door?? Or front door off to the side of the garage still facing the street?

@juliewebgirl @elfin Sometimes none at all, but often just a side or back door, because the designers are motorbrained and assume nobody would ever walk off the property.

`Da Elf Feb 22, 2023

@spacehobo @juliewebgirl Catching up here.

Snouthouses. Huge in the 50s, and across the Grand American Midwest (throws up a little in mouth).

They're called "Snout Houses" because the garage looks like a pig's snout. There are lots of designs, duplexes, multi story uinits, but I found one like Space Hobo is describing. Lack of front door, the architect should be shot.

This one is in Seattle, 1,900SqFt, $420,000 (because, Seattle), 8mi south of downtown, built in 2016.

Goddamned Travesty.

@elfin @spacehobo @juliewebgirl

w0dz Feb 22, 2023

double width front door
SUVs feel right at home
servants to the rear

#poetry #smallpoems
#knowYourPlace

@w0dz @elfin @spacehobo
jokers to the left of me
jokers to the right
Here I am
Stuck in suburbia hell

#lyrics #notreallypoetry

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ofs_GyQXJ9k

`Da Elf Feb 23, 2023

@juliewebgirl @w0dz @spacehobo Clowns to the left.

Stealers Wheel ~ Stuck In The Middle With You (1972)

YouTube

@elfin @w0dz @spacehobo The early 70's doesn't get enough attention IMO. "The 70's" doesn't really include the early or for that matter the late/disco 70's. And no, this time, I'm actually not even talking about Elton.

Space Hobo Feb 23, 2023

@juliewebgirl @elfin @w0dz Well, The Sixties runs from the assassination of JFK to the Watergate scandal, if you ask me. The Seventies runs from there to the shooting of Reagan, so it includes the early-80s disco era.

@spacehobo @juliewebgirl @w0dz

`Da Elf Feb 23, 2023

*Blink Blink* You're not talking about Elton?

Ok...Raises Hand, I consider lateseventies and early, Early 80s "Disco".

Please don't make me call my 68 year old mother on this or we'll be up all damned night (all of us...ALL OF US!) 'arguing' Genisis, and Elton and the finer points of Pink Floyd vs Simon and Garfunkle (and on and on &c.).

No. Bad.

https://youtu.be/5eAQa4MOGkE

Julie Webgirl

@elfin @spacehobo @w0dz

1979...Disco.
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/PV45rpm/billboard_top_40_songs_1979/
Saturday night fever.. Need I say more?
Even Elton tried disco 🤦

1980...New wave and accompanying straight leg jeans. Think Billy Joel:

"Next phase, new wave,
dance craze, anyways,
it's still rock 'n' roll to me"

Now .. early 70's... https://rateyourmusic.com/list/PV45rpm/billboard-top-40-songs-1972-1/
It has a definite vibe. I think I'm going to compile an early 70's playlist.

Simon & Garfunkel were 60's. Period.

BILLBOARD TOP 40 SONGS 1979 - RYM/Sonemic

[b][i]The most selling singles of the year on the USA, according to Billboard Magazine.[/b][/i] [b][i][color green]#With the highest chart position achieved by every song on the Billboard Hot 100.[/b][/i][/color] [b][i]Las canciones más populares del año según la revista Billboard en Estados Unidos.[/b][/i] [b][i][color green]#Se incluye la posición más alta alcanzada por cada canción en la lista Billboard Hot 100.[/b][/i][/color]

Rate Your Music

w0dz Feb 23, 2023

@juliewebgirl @elfin @spacehobo
leave you mom out of it. I was there. Uriah Heep. Tangerine Dream. Supertramp. Yes. Fruup. Horslips. Groundhogs. Led Zeppelin. Fleetwood Mac. Greenslade. Black Sabbath. Spiders from Mars. I remember carrying the speakers, testing the mics. But no disco.

@w0dz @elfin @spacehobo You were with his mom? Wait, this is getting weird. Ok I've only heard of 6 of those. Testing the mics?

w0dz Feb 23, 2023

@juliewebgirl @elfin @spacehobo
Yes, but only temporally speaking. At that time we were all strictly nonconformists, you had to have records that were NOT the same as your mates, pref bands they hadn't even heard of (still true). The latter - I mean walking on stage, tapping the vocalist's microphone and saying "testing testing", before the band appear. Deeply technical stuff. 🤓

Space Hobo Feb 23, 2023

@juliewebgirl @elfin @w0dz Elton was part of the 1970s attempt at a 50s revival, and I think either you looked to that or Art Nouveau back then. Everything cycled in neat generational gaps. THE WHEEL OF RETRO.