So many Seattle institutions vanish all the time, one can’t keep up. Here are just a few of the more recent disappearances:

• The Jade Pagoda closes Thursday. Broadway’s last true dive bar, open since Repeal, makes way for the usual exciting new retail mixed use project blah-blah-blah. You were loved, you are still loved, you will always be loved.
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  Larry’s Markets disbanded. The six-unit supermarket chain, under Chapter 11 in recent months, is being sold off asset by asset. Two will become GI Joe’s sporting-goods stores. Three will go to other grocery operators, possibly Asian specialty chains. The lower Queen Anne store will be taken over by Metropolitan market (née Queen Anne Thriftway), but will keep the Larry’s name for perhaps a year, until the upper Queen Anne Metropolitan’s kicked out for a QFC-and-condo project.Larry’s didn’t pioneer the idea of a higher-price, gourmet-ized supermarket. But its huge stores took the concept to a new level. But then Whole Foods took the concept to still another level. Larry’s countered by emphasizing its everyday, regular-ol’-supermarket stuff as well as its 17 different kinds of cilantro. But it didn’t work, alas.
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  Rainier Hardware to be evicted from the Pike Place Market. The owners of downtown’s last hardware store wanted to keep going. But the Market’s jokingly-titled “Preservation and Development Authority” only saw the potential for big bucks from shucking a piece of the Market’s working-class heritage in favor of some high-rent upscale knick-knack boutique.
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  Pike Place Politics shuts down. It was one of the few truly comprehensive, truly independent, truly local political blogs. But Will, who ran it, apparently simply got tired of the legwork. As soon as he relinquished the subdomain name at blogspot.com, it was grabbed by someone offering video clips of animals fighting one another. Ah, gotta get those click-through ad links exposed somehow….