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Wedgwood Rock

Wedgwood Rock

4.4(5 reviews)
1.5 mi•Ravenna

It's a famous line from a mediocre movie: "That's not a knife, THAT'S a knife!"…read more The movie of course is Crocodile Dundee staring Paul Hogan. It is utterly forgettable and in fact, I have forgotten everything about it, except when I visit my neighborhood's biggest tourist draw, the Wedgwood Rock. "That's not a rock, THAT'S a rock!" Standing 19 feet tall and deposited by glacial ice sheets tens of thousands of years ago, the Wedgwood Rock is a humbling reminder of just how little control we humans have over our grand Mother Earth. According to Dr. Terry W. Swanson, of the UW Department of Geological Sciences, the Wedgwood Rock has its origins on Fidalgo Island, near Anacortes, about 75 miles north of Seattle. It was carried 75 miles and by ice sheets and then deposited in little old Wedgwood as the most recent ice age ended (source: http://bit.ly/WcjCNQ). Admittedly, the Wedgwood Rock doesn't quite rank up there with Seattle's top tourist draws, but it's always a lot of fun to take visitors on a drive by and watch their eyes bulge as we round the corner to 28th Ave NE and the rock comes into view. Kudos to the neighbors of the Wedgwood Rock who have assumed the role of caretakers for the iconic boulder, from enforcing the climbing ban, to gardening around it, to making sure graffiti gets cleaned up promptly. It's a bit ironic, of course, that the Wedgwood Rock isn't actually in the Wedgwood neighborhood, which is widely considered to encompass the boundaries of NE 95th St to NE 75th St, between 45th Ave NE on the east to a combination of Lake City Way, Ravenna Ave NE, and 25th Ave NE on the west (Source: http://bit.ly/Wcm6vI). Technically I suppose it would be the Ravenna neighborhood that the rock actually resides in. Still, that bit of trivia doesn't detract from the neighborhood's love for its most famous attraction, nor its appeal to young and old alike. Tip: While the Wedgwood Rock may be the neighborhood's largest and most famous glacial erratic, it is hardly the only one. Check out the Wedgwood Rock's modest sibling located in a tiny park known as Wedgwood Square at the corner of 31st Ave NE and NE 82nd Street.

I used to live several blocks away from the Wedgwood Rock and liked occasionally walking by it…read more I wouldn't drive a significant distance to come see it, but it's still pretty cool to have this this huge rock just sitting there in an urban residential neighborhood. I've read that this rock has a pretty rich history as a landmark for native americans, a picnic spot for families, a place for hippies to hang out and do drugs, etc... right now, however, it's just a big rock on the corner with houses all around... and apparently you get fined $100 if you're caught climbing it.

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Wedgwood Rock - The Wedgwood Rock's modest sibling located in Wedgwood Square at the corner of 31st Ave NE and NE 82nd Street

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The Wedgwood Rock's modest sibling located in Wedgwood Square at the corner of 31st Ave NE and NE 82nd Street

University Neighborhood Service Center

University Neighborhood Service Center

3.4(10 reviews)
2.2 mi•University District

had an amazing experience here recently applying for my first expedited passport. highly recommend.read more

A great service for anyone who misses being treated like a prisoner in the Soviet Gulag system…read more Otherwise, there couldn't be a more awful example of bureaucratic inefficiency and insensitiveness. The hours say they are open until 2:00 pm on Saturday, but that is apparently the precise moment that the woman behind the counter turns into a pumpkin, not actually the time at which the public is no longer able to access their "services". So if you arrive, as we did, at 1:30, but due to slow service or people ahead of you getting their 19 children their first passport you do not make it to counter before 2:00 pumpkin time...NO SERVICE FOR YOU, COMRADE! Today, after waiting for 24 minutes and being told multiple times that we would be the last customer to be helped, the blond woman behind the counter decided that with more than 6 minutes left that the family ahead of us was her last customer. No apology. No empathy. Just "get your stuff and get out". Oh, you can pack up all the stuff and go to 23rd and Jackson. Or the Sevorstipol Work Camp. YES, CITIZEN CHIEF! It also doesn't help that the advice that you get on the State Department website is contradicted by the UNSC. According to the Feds, if you have a passport, a birth certificate is NOT required...but this is not so per the UNSC apparatchiks. You must have birth certificate, and copy of drivers licenses, and blood sample...what...noooo blood sample? 23rd AND JACKSON FOR YOU! Take my advice. Avoid this place and save yourself the show trial.

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