The SE Seattle Hinterlands
Looking south along MLK Way near Cloverdale St, the new light rail line seems disappear off into the boondocks — not a scene many would readily identify as urban. This is about seven blocks south of the station at Othello.
This ain’t no North Capitol Hill. Imagine one of those sleek white Sound Transit trains quietly zipping by in this picture. Chimerical.
Will a taco bus parked on someone’s front lawn still have a place in the future landscape of the MLK light rail corridor? I hope so, but of course this is exactly the kind of unique and colorful business that tends to be driven away when neighborhoods redevelop and become more wealthy.
As we were eating a matronly old Mexican woman came by and gave us some of these napkins:
