SCANDIHOOVIEN BOSNIA

July 22nd, 2006

Most of us Old Timers can remember when Stanwood and Gomorrah was a sleepy little town. You got off the freeway, there were no gas stations, no fast food, no nothing, just a 7 mile jaunt thru the woods til you got to the Farmette, a little burger joint they replaced with strip malls and Haggen and condos and health clubs and real estate offices and banks and dollar stores and all the fast food joints in the world, sort of dropped a Lynnwood smack on top of the Farmette, practically overnight.

Funny little town, Stanwood. Two towns really, east and west. Couldn’t get along so they had their own mayors and schools and fire departments and police. Sorta like a Scanihoovien Bosnia down here ….. thankfully WITHOUT the genocide.

Stanwood was a river town. Most of the newcomers don’t know that. Twin City Foods burned down awhile back and folks could SEE the river for the first time. But they got the concrete walls back up PDQ before folks started wantin a riverfront park instead of fast food franchises and more gas stations.

Too bad really. A lot of history’s hidden behind Twin City Foods view blockin walls. History’s like us old geezers here tonight. We got plenty to say after livin all these years, plenty of experience some might call wisdom. Kind of a shame, dontchathink, to hide it behind a wall?

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