Tribe.net. Local Connections Gun http://509.tribe.net/thread/c25d7c29-f6bb-4bd2-b996-a5ee815879c0 2006-01-29T05:53:54Z 2005-08-09T00:41:50Z

<div>I wanted to say hello to those other desert dwellers. i have been diagnosed with lymphedema after breaking my amputated leg. i know good on good on good news lol. oh well, the deal is that i can't get out and i just recently found my old home full of my old friends and roomates on here. so thought if I found old friends maybe i can find new ones as well. since i can't get out right now. anyway, I completely am a music enthusiast not many bands out there that i don't care for or at least listened to once. I am also a musician mainly a drummer but also play Bass, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, mandolin, badra'in and penny whistle and a hammond organ. i know but it's a family heirloom. I don't get out much cause of the level of my lymphedema cause a former doctor kept advising to do the wrong things. but I would just like to say hello from the soap lake area.</div> <div> posted in <a href="http://509.tribe.net">509</a> - 3 replies </div>

Gun 2005-08-09T00:41:50Z Xradioguy http://509.tribe.net/thread/0c007e34-9064-444f-9a26-fa5b8d7a4e41 2004-10-05T22:15:14Z 2004-10-05T22:02:09Z

<div>Some years ago while working in a small grocery store in Manson, WA at Lake Chelan, I saw an attitudinal teen of the female persuasion wearing a T-shirt which had the following message printed on it: "206 - ITS NOT JUST AN AREA CODE -- IT'S AN ATTITUDE". <br/> <br/>And an attitude those folks from 206, 360, etc. have when visiting east of the Cascades. They actually seem to feel we 509ers should be humbled in their presence if they inform us that they are from "Seahhhtle" or Bellvue, or wherever (NOTE: Those folks from Sedro-Woolley are notable exceptions and do not exhibit this attitude). <br/> <br/>I am originally from the Skagit Valley. I came to live in 509 when I took my first radio job at a little 1000 watt station in Ephrata (Ephrata belongs in a Utah area code) in 1974. I finally escaped from there two years later and moved to Kennewick to work at the mighty KOTY radio (I know -- you never heard of it). <br/> <br/>Some years later I moved to Mount Vernon (area code 360) to work at yet another radio station (KBRC, "near Mount Vernon"). I really did have some trouble re-adjusting to the west side, even though I was reared there and still have family and friends there. I actually came back to the Tri-Cities on vacation every chance I got. A guy I worked with in Mount Vernon once asked me, "What is it you like so much about the Tri-Cities? Is it the weather?" To which I answered, "Hell no! It's too hot in the summer, too cold in the winter and the wind blows the rest of the time. It's the people. They're friendlier there." Read that "It's easier to get laid in the Tri-Cities than any other place I've ever lived." <br/> <br/>Back in those days, I was a bachelor. I got spoiled in the Tri-Cities of the 1970s. You could saunter into one of the meat markets like the Steakout, The Starlight, Emil's (later Saenz and then The Stables), tip your cowboy hat back, act like you were listening to the band, and unless you were toad-ugly, some horny gal was likely to hit on you. A guy didn't have to make a move unless he saw someone he'd rather get together with than the cowgirl with bad breath that was trying to couple up (or just couple) with. <br/> <br/>I even moved to downtown Kennewick to an apartment in that old red brick building on the corner of Canal and Auburn to be closer to the action. Never knew who was going to come knocking on my door after the bars closed. <br/> <br/>We may lack some of the cultural amenities that are offered in the more populous west side, and I'm now a stuffy old married fart who doesn't care for the night life any more, but I still say the people in area code 509, particularly those in the Tri-Cities are some of the friendliest and least self-absorbed of any I have met anywhere else. <br/></div> <div> posted in <a href="http://509.tribe.net">509</a> - 1 reply </div>

Xradioguy 2004-10-05T22:02:09Z