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Re: New group forming in Seattle region

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On Apr 18, 8:10 pm, gsteemso <gstee...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 16, 2:56 pm, nyder <nyder...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If i wasn't anti-social i might go.  but I am.
>
> > but in case i might change my mind, which part of north seattle?
>
> As I said in my previous post, no location has been chosen yet, and
> none will be until we find out where people tend to come from. So far,
> the few responses admitting some sort of neighbourhood or geographic
> area have been received from various points in central Seattle (say
> within 5 miles of downtown), the north end of Lake Washington (Kenmore
> and Bothell), and the Eastside (Bellevue and Redmond). It's kind of
> vexing, really; naïvely interpreted, we'd have to meet in the middle
> of the lake to approximate being centrally located for our potential
> members.
>
> People seem to be reluctant to volunteer information about geography,
> even in confidence -- which is, bluntly, silly. I don't know or care
> what anyone's home address is, I just want to know approximately what
> part of town to hold meetings in so they'd consider it to be "close
> enough to local for government work." Most people seem to be of the
> opinion that they will ignore the whole business until a meeting is
> actually scheduled, presumably hoping the venue will turn out to be
> somewhere convenient for them purely by luck.
>
> A number of possible meeting places have been proposed, but the major
> difficulty with the ones I have examined so far is difficulty of
> access. Wherever we end up meeting needs to have at least minimal bus
> service even late at night, because a lot of retrotech enthusiasts
> (especially in Seattle) are of extremely limited means, but it will
> also need a good amount of free parking near the building because (a)
> people will visit from far away (I've had great interest from people
> at meetings in Pierce County), and (b) people will have bulky or heavy
> gear to demonstrate that will need to be laboriously toted in from
> trunks and back seats.
>
> Oh well, the search continues. Please help me narrow things down; to
> the nearest five miles or so, what part of town are you in, nyder?
> Feel free to reply by email.
>
> Gordon

Pretty much I-5 and E. Denny  in Seattle.

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New group forming in Seattle region gsteemso <gsteemso@gmail.com> - 2011-04-06 13:34 -0700
  Re: New group forming in Seattle region nyder <nyder.23@gmail.com> - 2011-04-16 14:56 -0700
    Re: New group forming in Seattle region gsteemso <gsteemso@gmail.com> - 2011-04-18 20:10 -0700
      Re: New group forming in Seattle region nyder <nyder.23@gmail.com> - 2011-04-24 00:42 -0700

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