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Beginning with its first Sunday in the winter of 1982, this weekly feature has always been written in Wallingford – in the basement of a vintage Wallingford bungalow. Surely there are bungalows on every Seattle hill, but hereabouts this often modest architecture with shingle sidings, broad gables, tapered porch posts, wide windows, exterior chimneys, sun porches and more are surely associated with the neighborhood that was – after clear cutting and the persuasion of stretching it some for real estate sales – first called Wallingford Hill.

Since Jean Sherrard took on the often enough joyful responsibility of repeating the historical photographs with his own artful “nows” for this feature, we have needed to identify our productive platform as “Greater Wallingford,” for Jean lives in what we will now risk calling “Upper Wallingford.” PacificNW students of Seattle history should know that there is a long and vigorous struggle over the names and boundaries of several of our city’s – what shall we call them? – “parts.” The Sherrard home where Jean and Karen raised their two tall boys, Ethan at 6’4” and Noel at 6’3”, the shorter and younger, who is now 30 years old – is only a brisk three minute walk from the northeast corner of Green Lake.




The generous Jean also understands that from its beginning Wallingford’s north border has always been shaky. It was named for John N. Wallingford, who, like Jean, also lived and plotted his productions at a home near the northeast corner of Green Lake. And now, I confess that I feel quite at home beside the lake. Many of my earliest now-and-then features were outlined first in my head while walking briskly around the lake. In 1982 that took me about 45 minutes, the time now often needed to get out of bed.



Today, and most likely forever, we can leave questions regarding Wallingford’s borders to the new core of enthused historiographers who have appropriately named themselves Historic Wallingford. And this coming Saturday morning, October 6th, they will be calling out from their sun porches primarily to home-owners – and renters – to gather together at the Good Shepherd Center on Sunnyside Avenue from 9:30am to 4pm for Wallingford’s Historic Homes Fair. The Fair features exhibitors with tips, experts sharing information about the styles of vintage residential architecture (there are more than bungalows in Wallingford), a showing of the film “Bungalow Heaven,” which is about an honored part of Pasadena, California, that may be uncannily compared to Wallingford, without the intrusion of film stars. The Fair’s Historic Preservation Discussion starts at 10am.
For more information including the schedule contact: www.historicwallingford.org/events/homes-fair-2018/


WEB EXTRAS
Anything to add, mes frères? JEAN – WATCH THE BOOKS, WATCH THE BOOKS.
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In 1967, my husband and I bought our first house at 4529 Bagley Ave. N, close to the Good Shepherd Center. We got to know the neighborhood: Fuji’s Ten-cent store,Tweedy and Pop Hardware, and Food Giant. One day, a neighbor’s roof was on fire. My husband ran down the block to help put out the fire. At that time, he had a beard and longish hair; the homeowner got angry, thinking was a hippie, and ordered him to leave her yard. After she found out he was a neighbor, she wrote an apology to the Wallingford paper.