Ballinger Terrace, Washington - circa 1960
I don't see any info or history online (on Google anyway) about this little shopping center/plaza, so I have no idea whether or not it's still around today, and if so, under what current retail moniker. I just dug this pretty retro postcard and wanted to share it. Classic vintage shopping center atmosphere, don't you agree?
I found it Keith!
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Tada! There's teh live local view.
The shopping center is on the corner of Ballinger Way NE and NE 205th St in Seattle. It looks like it is anchored today by a new build Rite Aid, a fitness store, a market. Its called Ballinger Village today...and has a starbucks! It looks like the 24 hour fitness could have been a movie theatre at one point. Also, there was a Payless Drugs in the center before Rite Aid.
there is a little red volkswagen mini-bus if the picture---love it!
ReplyDeleteI can also make out an IGA next to Payless in the old view.
ReplyDeleteEh, the vintage-mess is yet again replaced by Starcraps. Lovely.
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ReplyDeleteIt's (24 Hour Fitness) the old Ballinger Bowl in beautiful (ahem) Mountlake Terrace. This little stripper is only about 1 mile due east of the now defunct Aurora Village (see July 05). Thanks for the memory Keith!
Wow, does that picture bring back memories. I spent a lot of time hanging around that strip mall back in the day and no I'm not proud of the fact. There was a bar next door to Ballinger Bowl, and a Goofy's Tavern just out of the frame, next to the IGA. Over the course of the '70s I got drunk, laid, and beat up in that parking lot more than once.
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