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- The Kleenex factory in my ol’ stompin’ grounds of Everett, one of that Mill Town’s last working mills, will likely close in December. I’ve not much time to get my picture taken in front of its big CLARK (as in “Kimberly-“) sign.
- However, Everett is getting something new as well. It’s getting a qualifying meet for international Olympic gymnasts.
- Tacoma’s famed Goddess of Commerce statue is back!
- Bank of America caved in to massive public outcry, and will modify Vera Johnson’s loan. This lets Johnson keep her beloved Village Green nursery in West Seattle, which had been threatened with foreclosure. Ray Davies was wrong: you are the Village Green Preservation Society.
- Video mashup of the day: The CGI animation of the Alaskan Way Viaduct detour route, combined with the video game Mario Kart.
- A Republican county committee in Arizona (in Gabrielle Giffords’ county) wanted to raffle off a gun. The same kind of gun Gabrielle Giffords was shot with. It took other Arizona GOP vets to tell ’em this wasn’t such a cool idea.
- Sex Inc. #1: Tampa’s world famous strip clubs are expanding and modernizing their facilities, in anticipation of extra business from next year’s Republican convention.
- Sex Inc. #2: The “.xxx” domain-name suffix is about to go online. Two groups are concerned about this: 1) Porn companies that don’t necessarily want to give up their current .com URLs, and 2) companies and celebrities in every other line of business, worried that smart-assed pranksters could buy up the names “mcdonalds.xxx,” “spongebob.xxx,” or even “rickperry.xxx”.
- And just for awesomeness, here are some amazing old Soviet movie posters.
