RCS ([info]rochelle) wrote in [info]seattle,
@ 2007-03-19 18:17:00
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What the hecky heck.
What is this? It looks like an abandoned... something.

It's located on Delmar Drive, where it intersects Interlaken Blvd., very close to where 520 and I-5 connect.



Each picture links to a (much) larger version.








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[info]langston
2007-03-20 01:24 am UTC (link)
no idea, but I'm going to try to find it tomorrow so as to investigate further. Reminds me of paintball war-games fields, minus the mobile obstructions.

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[info]rprins
2007-03-20 04:36 am UTC (link)
It's a batting cage.

I was driving up 520 to Seattle the other day and I saw the Seattle Prep team taking batting practice and also doing pitching practice at that facility.

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[info]rochelle
2007-03-20 04:47 am UTC (link)
Batting cage? You mean the chain link fence thing? It's about as tall as my waist. You'd have to have some really, really short batters to fit inside that thing.

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[info]synx
2007-03-20 01:25 am UTC (link)
Here is the google maps sat photo of the area:

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&z=19&ll=47.642434,-122.31656&spn=0.000927,0.002315&t=k&om=1

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[info]reeeuh
2007-03-20 01:39 am UTC (link)
Perhaps old track and field things? Or maybe it's handball? For some reason The sheds remind me of something I used to see when I played at Ridgecrest Park as a kid.

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[info]mcfnord
2007-03-20 02:02 am UTC (link)


Think yer so smart? Ok, who lives in this funky-ass treehouse?

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[info]scearley
2007-03-20 02:05 am UTC (link)
Santa?

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[info]mcfnord
2007-03-20 02:07 am UTC (link)
sit on the lap and see...

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[info]spriterman
2007-03-20 03:09 am UTC (link)
bahahaewww..creepy

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[info]reeeuh
2007-03-20 03:41 am UTC (link)
Very large raccoons?

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[info]mcfnord
2007-03-20 03:53 am UTC (link)
and who else?

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[info]reeeuh
2007-03-20 05:25 am UTC (link)
Manbearpig?

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[info]mcfnord
2007-03-20 02:00 am UTC (link)
oh i saw u and ur boyfriend take those pics

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[info]rochelle
2007-03-20 02:02 am UTC (link)
Hahah, did you? Neat.

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[info]mcfnord
2007-03-20 02:06 am UTC (link)
once i humped a yoga teacher there, on the astro-turf

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[info]jitters79
2007-03-20 02:01 am UTC (link)
According to King County Assessors website it's owned by Seattle Prep. Is it an old tennis court?


http://www5.metrokc.gov/reports/property_report.asp?PIN=2025049007

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[info]rochelle
2007-03-20 02:03 am UTC (link)
It's definitely not a tennis court, although it looks like it, sort of. It's really dense Astroturf-like green stuff and no net. Plus there's the big poles on one end, and the big metal boxes at the other end.

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[info]mcfnord
2007-03-20 02:04 am UTC (link)
and it was used as recently as yesterday. it's not an "abandoned" anything.

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[info]rochelle
2007-03-20 02:05 am UTC (link)
Yesterday? Used for WHAT? It's run down and dirty as all hell.

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[info]mcfnord
2007-03-20 02:08 am UTC (link)
which will make the answer even more surprising.

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[info]rochelle
2007-03-20 02:09 am UTC (link)
So you're saying that it was just yesterday that you had yoga sex on the Astroturf.

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[info]henry
2007-03-20 02:07 am UTC (link)
Dimensions and striping look wrong for tennis, but maybe the sheds contain pitching machines and the poles are for a net/backstop? They do have a baseball team...

I'm guessing the long "driveways" lead up to a sand pit covered by that plywood, for practicing long jumps.

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[info]rochelle
2007-03-20 02:08 am UTC (link)
One end of the "driveways" is bushes, and the other end is that chainlink fence cage thing seen in the last photo.

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[info]mcfnord
2007-03-20 02:09 am UTC (link)
bushes... and magic.

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[info]henry
2007-03-20 02:10 am UTC (link)
The driveways look to be made of a rubber material, and the chainlink has wheels so it can be rolled back off of the two sand pits. Final answer.

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[info]raevnos
2007-03-20 02:23 am UTC (link)
Ack. Please please make an actual thumbnail image and use it, not just the full-size one scaled with width and height tags. Much much nicer for those of us who still have slow connections...

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[info]zagmike
2007-03-20 03:05 am UTC (link)
or you could get dsl.

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internet e-leetistz
[info]mcfnord
2007-03-20 03:14 am UTC (link)
or u cud stfu

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[info]kriostoir
2007-03-20 03:32 am UTC (link)
Oh! That's a yoga teacher humping turf. It's a new sport. The 'BTM' marks on the goal sheds refer to the 'bottom' position you have the mold the yoga teacher into.

;c)

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downward dog
[info]mcfnord
2007-03-20 03:33 am UTC (link)
i m felling tinglez now all over my whole body parts

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Re: downward dog
[info]kriostoir
2007-03-20 03:47 pm UTC (link)
title or description

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kundalini
[info]mcfnord
2007-03-25 12:41 am UTC (link)

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[info]alodi
2007-03-20 04:19 am UTC (link)
it looks like what was a tennis court and practice walls, kind of normal for nj

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[info]rochelle
2007-03-20 04:25 am UTC (link)
Nope. Like I said above, "It's really dense Astroturf-like green stuff and no net. Plus there's the big poles on one end, and the big metal boxes at the other end."

They are metal boxes with openings at the top and wires running from the poles into the boxes. It's not a practice wall. And there's no way a ball would bounce on that dense green stufff.

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[info]rochelle
2007-03-20 04:26 am UTC (link)
Also, this ain't New Jersey.

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[info]mcfnord
2007-03-20 04:53 am UTC (link)
isn't it?

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[info]scearley
2007-03-20 04:23 pm UTC (link)
and hooray for that.

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[info]pullthestars
2007-03-20 06:43 am UTC (link)
Oh! I believe I know -- I saw baseball-type things happening there one afternoon/early evening when driving past.

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[info]rochelle
2007-03-20 01:12 pm UTC (link)
Okay, but that doesn't explain the weird crap.

What kind of baseball team needs wires suspended from poles that go into metal boxes?

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[info]grace_batmonkey
2007-03-20 03:15 pm UTC (link)
Ooh! I've an idea!

How about finding out from these people what times they see things happening there? Then you would know for sure what those things are for.

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[info]avaneko
2007-03-20 06:37 pm UTC (link)
I think it's for target practice.

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[info]skycriesx
2007-03-20 08:04 pm UTC (link)
Looks like a pretty good spot for a RAVE!

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[info]rochelle
2007-03-20 11:09 pm UTC (link)
Hahah. Except that everyone driving by on 520 could see. It is, however, just about 2 inches down the street from Ian's house.

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[info]mr_quackenbush
2007-03-21 12:14 am UTC (link)
It's used by the Seattle Old Rich on Queen Anne and Mercer Island to stage duels against Eastside Nouveau Riche and Microserf Millionaires.

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