Cruising once more in search of creeping gentrification, this time down Rainier Square. I was pleased to find some individuality and color, including on Roosevelt Avenue, near my home. That's where the overwhelming folk art house was photographed, but I suspect a hex was placed on my camera, as some of the photos were inexplicably fogged. I am not sure whether I should go back, but I am fairly fearless when it comes to photography.
That's definitely more interesting than your last post.
I wonder what the story is with the Baptist church. Is it Southern Baptist, or some other variety? Does it come with a Korean congregation?
Thanks for sharing again!
Posted by: Ally McRepuke | November 14, 2006 at 06:11 PM
Most of the Korean stuff is in the north end, in the area of the post before this one - and in South Tacoma. Alot of Koreans came here after the Korean war. I'm not sure just how that happened, except that alot of the area now inhabited by Vietnamese and others was at that time Italian!
Posted by: Slugbug | November 18, 2006 at 11:09 AM
Thanks for the clarification, DiAnne...
I do know that most of the Korean and Vietnamese waves happened after the liberalization of immigration laws in 1965, and in the case of the Vietnamese, coincided with the loss of South Vietnam.
When the right wingers seized power in the 1980s, they couldn't go back to the old quota system - so they gave back door preferences to their favorite nationalities (i.e. made it easier to qualify for a visa, granted visas even when the US labor market couldn't take in more immigrants).
It is a fact that Korean immigration peaked during the Reagan era, waned during the Clinton era, and picked back up during the W era.
I know that the Nicaraguan homophobes also got lots of back door amnesties, but given their election of a leftist leader, I don't know how favored they'll be from now on.
The level at which our immigration system is broken never ceases to amaze me.
Posted by: Ally McRepuke | November 19, 2006 at 12:27 AM