*crosses heart and says a little prayer*
May it rest in peace. Oh wait, it's can't -- it's a fucking museum piece now!
I find this pic kinda disturbing:
I remember the first time I drove by the T. I'm glad they kept the style at the time, but it was still unnerving. It's like walking past a house every day on your way home from school, then one weekend it burns down, and when you walk past the ruins for the first time the next Monday -- it's kinda like that.
That and they're turning impressionable teen girls into alcoholics now.
And then there's this story showing how much Anheuser-Busch sucks compared to our beloved Washington beers!
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/offbeat/2004-08-18-beer-bear_x.htm
Love that news article! So much local pride welled up in me after that story came out.
But I agree, it's totally jarring to no longer see the beloved 'R' when driving into Seattle northbound. =\ Even to this day it throws me off a little. At least when they put the 'T' there it was a little less painful.
Though speaking of local brews, Iron Horse Brewery (in Ellensburg, my college town) has a nice dark beer that I really like, "Irish Death".
Of course I didn't realize I liked darker beers until my mom took myself and my wife (g/f at the time) to the Elyssian by Safeco Field and ordered the beer sampler. I tried them all and determined I liked the Dragontooth Stout the best. Also I was a little tipsy afterward...by like 12:30...with my mom. A little interesting day that was, to say the least...
Moral of the story! Go to your local brewery, order a sampler of their beers and try them all to see what kind of beer you like!