{"id":40,"date":"2014-10-04T21:14:48","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T05:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=40"},"modified":"2015-10-08T12:17:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:17:43","slug":"speaking-of-second-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/?p=40","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Second Avenue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Second Avenue isn&#8217;t important just for its new bike lane. To a young grad-school dropout in the mid-70s, it was the street that most of the photo labs were on, and therefore a popular place for pavement-pounding.  Through much of the 1980s, though further uptown, it was a place to live cheaply. Here&#8217;s a picture from that latter period &#8212; note the then-fairly-new articulated buses, which today would be relegated to the 3rd-Avenue Downtown Transit Tunnel:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Before.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Before-1024x712.jpg\" alt=\"Second Ave in the 1980s\" width=\"625\" height=\"434\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-41\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Before-1024x712.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Before-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Before-624x434.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThis old vantage point is now obscured by trees, but here is a modern version taken from across the street to the north. I had not realized that the City&#8217;s old three-globe street lights still survive down here, just east of Pioneer Square.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/After.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/After-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Second Avenue, again\" width=\"625\" height=\"468\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-44\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/After-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/After-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/After-624x467.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second Avenue isn&#8217;t important just for its new bike lane. To a young grad-school dropout in the mid-70s, it was the street that most of the photo labs were on, and therefore a popular place for pavement-pounding. Through much of the 1980s, though further uptown, it was a place to live cheaply. Here&#8217;s a picture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40\/revisions\/133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwenda.com\/teletype\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}