Comments on: KIDS: Just 4 Days Left to Enter the Rainier Valley Summer Streets Coloring Contest! http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/kids-just-4-days-left-to-enter-the-rainier-valley-summer-streets-coloring-contest/ Proudly serving Southeast Seattle since 2007 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:27:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Brian http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/kids-just-4-days-left-to-enter-the-rainier-valley-summer-streets-coloring-contest/comment-page-1/#comment-14903 Brian Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:49:14 +0000 http://www.rainiervalleypost.com/?p=13232#comment-14903 There used to be some fruit trees (apple, pear, and plum) in part of the city right of way which the power lines cut through (the Holly Park to Skyway powerlines). Unfortunately, these trees were removed, I believe some time during the 1980's, probably to make it easier for the city to operate its grass mowing equipment. That is unfortunate as the apples were varieties that I haven't seen at the grocery store. I'm sure the trees had been growing there for decades, and who knows who planted them originally. It was common for the local neighborhood kids, like myself, to go pick apples off these trees so the neighborhood moms could make applie pie or apple crisp, or applesauce. See the following link to the South District Journal article on how South Seattle "Covered as it used to be with truck farms and orchards, South Seattle was once the breadbasket, or at least the fruit and vegetable basket, of Seattle. " http://www.sdistrictjournal.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=26796&SectionID=40&SubSectionID=262&S=1 There used to be some fruit trees (apple, pear, and plum) in part of the city right of way which the power lines cut through (the Holly Park to Skyway powerlines). Unfortunately, these trees were removed, I believe some time during the 1980′s, probably to make it easier for the city to operate its grass mowing equipment. That is unfortunate as the apples were varieties that I haven’t seen at the grocery store. I’m sure the trees had been growing there for decades, and who knows who planted them originally. It was common for the local neighborhood kids, like myself, to go pick apples off these trees so the neighborhood moms could make applie pie or apple crisp, or applesauce.

See the following link to the South District Journal article on how South Seattle “Covered as it used to be with truck farms and orchards, South Seattle was once the breadbasket, or at least the fruit and vegetable basket, of Seattle. ”

http://www.sdistrictjournal.com/main.asp?Search=1&ArticleID=26796&SectionID=40&SubSectionID=262&S=1

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