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Message no. 1
From: Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com
Subject: Seattle Streets
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 01:16:04 -0700 (PDT)
A friend has my copy of the Seattle Sourcebook, so I
need a bit of a hand. Can anyone tell me the name of a
"red-light district" street in Downtown, or
alternately the name of a street with one or more bars
and/or nightclubs on it?

====Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow, aka Doc'booner, aka Doc' Vader)

S.S. f. P.S.C. & D.J.

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Message no. 2
From: Jkmiland@***.com Jkmiland@***.com
Subject: Seattle Streets
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 09:18:11 EDT
In a message dated 6/1/00 1:16:39 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
docwagon101@*****.com writes:

> A friend has my copy of the Seattle Sourcebook, so I
> need a bit of a hand. Can anyone tell me the name of a
> "red-light district" street in Downtown, or
> alternately the name of a street with one or more bars
> and/or nightclubs on it?

It's been a while since I've read any of the Seattle sourcebooks, so I don't
know if this street even exists anymore in the 2060s--maybe the Arcology
swallowed up portions of it?--but in modern-day Seattle, our First Avenue is
a cesspool. (The "Lusty Lady" movie theatre is right across the street from
the Seattle Art Musuem.) I don't see it changing too much in the future.
Message no. 3
From: Alfredo B Alves dghost@****.com
Subject: Seattle Streets
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 12:15:08 -0500
On Thu, 1 Jun 2000 01:16:04 -0700 (PDT) Rand
Ratinac?<docwagon101@*****.com> writes:
> A friend has my copy of the Seattle Sourcebook, so I
> need a bit of a hand. Can anyone tell me the name of a
> "red-light district" street in Downtown, or
> alternately the name of a street with one or more bars
> and/or nightclubs on it?

Well there doesn't seem to be any section labeled Red light Distrcit or
anything ... but there's a sleazy strip club (Cutting Edge) on Maynard
Avenue and South Lane Street. Most of the other Downtown clubs are on 4th
and 5th avenue, but those are like Dante's and Club Penumbra ...

*keeps looking*

ROFL! Basil's Faulty Bar! Ha! That's great :)

Hmmm ... Does teh Arcology have a Red Light District on the 69th floor?
;)

Seriously, is Seatle zoned ot unzoned?

--
D. Ghost
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- Troutman's 6th programming postulate.

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Message no. 4
From: Manolis Skoulikas great_worm@*****.com
Subject: Seattle Streets
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2000 00:35:10 +0300
Rand Ratinac wrote:
>
> A friend has my copy of the Seattle Sourcebook, so I
> need a bit of a hand. Can anyone tell me the name of a
> "red-light district" street in Downtown, or
> alternately the name of a street with one or more bars
> and/or nightclubs on it?

that would be club Penumbra, teeming with shadow life, a classic.

If you think "red light" try the cutting Edge (says:sleazy strip bar)
off Maynard and South Lane st.

If you think dirty neighbourhood(as much as a high class place like
downtown can get) try internation district with yak, seoulpd and triad
affiliated restaurants.

the wiz
Message no. 5
From: Logan Graves logan1@********.net
Subject: Seattle Streets
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 18:45:02 -0400
In our last episode, Alfredo B Alves wrote:
>
> Well there doesn't seem to be any section labeled Red light Distrcit or
> anything ... but there's a sleazy strip club (Cutting Edge) on Maynard
> Avenue and South Lane Street. Most of the other Downtown clubs are on 4th
> and 5th avenue, but those are like Dante's and Club Penumbra ...

A few of us are down near Second & Blanchard! ;-)


> ...Maynard & South Lane Street...

That area, south of the 'Raku Arco & just past the "Penumbra District,"
appears
to be the 'oriental section' of downtown Seattle. A strip club there could very
well be run by the Yaks, the Tongs, the Triads, or one of the local Asian street
gangs. Which suggests that another indicator would be to see which Seattle
gangs are heavily into vice & prostitution, then look up where their territory
is...

Or you could take at face value the authenticity of this quote:

"Downtown is nowhere. The noise and the life are up in the Reds, Seattle North,
or "Everett." This is where the boulevards teem, where the party-girls line the
corners, where the skagmen do their biz in full view of other citizens, where
the wireheads and the pervos and the gutterpunks in black mingle with the suits
and the execs, the chippies in gleaming day-glo plastic, the freaks in their
web-weave body stockings, the metas, the Amerinds, the skinheads, the screw and
razor crowd, the polis and the skats. There are hawkers pushing everything from
tempting young boys to designer dorphs to fully functional biosynthetic limbs
and organs, all at the most reasonable of prices, guaranteed.

It is a glinting-glistening-flashing-studded-neon-chrome-mirror-rhinestone-circo
conglomeration of humanity--sweating, shoving, swearing, shouting, and laughing
down every side street and along every alley. The clubs, the meat racks, the
body shops and porno parlors, the punk food dives, the roach hotels, the
cabarets and cafes and simsense theatres, all blazing with neon and clawing the
sidewalks in search of extra dinero."

Nyx Smith, "Striper," Into the Shadows, paperback ed. (New York: Roc, 1992), 79.


This seems to indicate, Everett. Sorry, I just like that passage.

--Fenris
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(>) ...and I would have made it too, except
for those nosey kids & their stupid dog...
(>) excerpt of The Smiling Bandit's taped deposition,
Knight Errant casefile #E385h-0516
Message no. 6
From: Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com
Subject: Seattle Streets
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 23:27:09 -0700 (PDT)
> > ...Maynard & South Lane Street...
>
> That area, south of the 'Raku Arco & just past the
"Penumbra District," appears to be the 'oriental
section' of downtown Seattle. A strip club there
could very well be run by the Yaks, the Tongs, the
Triads, or one of the local Asian street gangs. Which
suggests that another indicator would be to see which
Seattle gangs are heavily into vice & prostitution,
then look up where their territory is...

Not what I'm after, unfortunately.

> Or you could take at face value the authenticity of
this quote:
<Snip quote>
> Nyx Smith, "Striper," Into the Shadows, paperback
ed. (New York: Roc, 1992), 79.
>
> This seems to indicate, Everett. Sorry, I just
like that passage.
> --Fenris

That's okay. Fortunately for me, I don't like Nyx
Smith, I don't like anything he's ever written (the
closest I ever came was not hating Steel Rain), I
ESPECIALLY don't like Striper (I mean, c'mon, the ONE
story in the book that didn't have anything to do with
the overarching plot - is that ego or what?) and I
don't consider ANYTHING he ever wrote canon.

In any event, even if it is considered canon, I'm not
after King's Cross (ummm...don't know what this would
compare to for you guys over in America, but it's
kinda like what Nyx was describing :) ) - although I
may have been originally. What I have is a place
similar to Dante's Inferno, but with exotic dancers.
It really is an "exotic dance club" as opposed to a
strip joint.

I've ALMOST made up my mind to put it near the university...:)

====Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow, aka Doc'booner, aka Doc' Vader)

S.S. f. P.S.C. & D.J.

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Message no. 7
From: Alfredo B Alves dghost@****.com
Subject: Seattle Streets
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 02:11:28 -0500
On Wed, 7 Jun 2000 23:27:09 -0700 (PDT) Rand
Ratinac?<docwagon101@*****.com> writes:
<snip>
> In any event, even if it is considered canon, I'm not
> after King's Cross (ummm...don't know what this would
> compare to for you guys over in America, but it's
> kinda like what Nyx was describing :) ) - although I
> may have been originally. What I have is a place
> similar to Dante's Inferno, but with exotic dancers.
> It really is an "exotic dance club" as opposed to a
> strip joint.
>
> I've ALMOST made up my mind to put it near the university...:)

Hell, put it on campus ... In the Student Services Center. :) Swipe your
student ID and the cover is deucted from any available financial aid ...
:)

--
D. Ghost
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- Troutman's 6th programming postulate.

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Message no. 8
From: Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com
Subject: Seattle Streets
Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 00:11:19 -0700 (PDT)
> > In any event, even if it is considered canon, I'm
not after King's Cross (ummm...don't know what this
would compare to for you guys over in America, but
it's kinda like what Nyx was describing :) ) -
although I may have been originally. What I have is a
place similar to Dante's Inferno, but with exotic
dancers. It really is an "exotic dance club" as
opposed to a strip joint.
> >
> > I've ALMOST made up my mind to put it near the
university...:)
>
> Hell, put it on campus ... In the Student Services
Center. :) Swipe your student ID and the cover is
deucted from any available financial aid ... :)
> D. Ghost

*lol*

Interesting idea, Al.

Unfortunately, this is "serious Doc'" speaking and
that's a little TOO ridiculous. :)

====Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow, aka Doc'booner, aka Doc' Vader)

S.S. f. P.S.C. & D.J.

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