Today’s new place of the day is Lincoln-Eldridge Park in Tacoma. Until today, I hadn’t realize that the park had partially been developed by the Workers Progress Administration (WPA) and that part of the original park had been given to the Tacoma School District for the construction of the Lincoln Bowl.
My poor, sick daughter requested a cheese pizza from Little Caesars on the corner of N. 26th Street and Pearl Street. Certainly not healthy, but inexpensive and convenient.
http://www.tollefsonplaza.com/
http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/09/19/1347572/statue-unveiling-brings-tribe.html
I get to use the Western Washington State Fair as my new place of the day for 9/26/2010 Dear daughter and I managed to get here on the last day of a three week run. It rained on us both coming and going, but not a drop of rain while we were there. We did all of our favorite fair things — went to the Hobby Hall, looked at the local art/crafts folks, saw the animals and ate too much. A good time was had by all!
http://www.thefair.com/puyallup-fair/
This Starbucks is the new place of the day for 9/25/10. Since I can’t think of anything to say about another Starbucks, I’m including as a bonus feature a photo of my dogs! Enjoy!
Today’s new place of the day is Bethlehem Lutheran Church at 101 E 38th St., Tacoma, WA 98404. The church has been at this location since 1948. They have two services, Saturday night at 5 pm and Sunday morning at 10 am. I’ve not been to a service, but I did go here to vote a while back. If you look carefully at the photo, it even has today’s date on it.
They have a Facebook Page at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tacoma-WA/Bethlehem-Lutheran-Church-Tacoma/98183396875
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Today’s new place of the day is Great Harvest Bread in the Green Firs Shopping, University Place. As soon as I walked in the door and smelled the wonderful bread aroma, I knew there was bread in my immediate future. I walked out with a loaf of delicious Cinnamon Chip and three cinnamon buns. I think I’ll come back on a Monday and try a loaf of the Cheddar Garlic. The other nearby Great Harvest locations are in Federal Way, Puyallup, Seattle and Bellevue. According to their web page Great Harvest’s mission is to “be loose and fun, bake phenomenal bread, run fast to help customers, create strong exciting bakeries, and give generously to others.” Can’t argue with that 🙂
Update: The store’s space is now available for lease, as of November 2015. Other Great Harvest locations appear to be open.
Today we went out to dinner at The Peanut Sauce, but darned if it wasn’t my second check out. So, I made my family drive me over to Wapato HIlls Park (not to be confused with Wapato Park on the east side of I-5). Since I know nothing about this park, I went to the Metro Parks website to learn this:
Eighty prime acres in South Tacoma, Wapato Hills Park was saved from development through the efforts of community activists. Today, 66 acres are devoted to open space and 14 to a neighborhood park. Metro Parks developed four of those acres into a playfield that opened in fall 2002. The playfield is named in honor of Skip and Laura Vaughn, who spearheaded the drive to save the land and turn it into a park.
Taking advantage of the last day of summer (9/20/10) I stopped at Ferry Park at corner of S 14th & Cushman Avenue. This is a relatively small park surrounded by residences in the Central Neighborhood. The park features playground toys, picnic tables and a large open area. When I stopped by at four in the afternoon on a sunny day, it was empty! Per the City of Tacoma’s website (see below) the land for this park was donated by Clinton P. Ferry May 14, 1883.
http://www.metroparkstacoma.org/page.php?id=659
Today was another extra special new place of the day (9/19/2010). I can’t believe there is an island around that I hadn’t visited! There is even a bridge there, so it’s not like it’s difficult. Raft Island is home to three artists in the Greater Gig Harbor Open Studio Tour 2010. There was Pen & Ink artist Mike Neil (#7), Kate Larsson (watercolors), Patrice Bruzas collage/sumi), Sharon Carr (paintings) #8 combined and Doug Fillbach, art glass(#9).
Raft Island is pretty much a residential community with many of the properties having water views. Information about it can be found here http://raftisland.org/
The Open Studio Tour was lots of fun. We didn’t get to all of them, but the ones we did visit were gracious and very talented, Information on the annual tour can be found here. http://www.gigharboropenstudiotour.org/
I thought the new place of the day was going to be the Blazing Onion Restaurant where we had lunch. It is a normal sized restaurant space with good food. I walked through the restaurant and counted 14 large TVs! That includes the ones in the restrooms. Remember when we’d go eat a meal together and talk? I’m just saying.
