Seattle Municipal Archives has some awesome pictures. Socialist Picnic at Wildwood Park in Bellevue. I like the romance of taking a ferry to the Eastside instead of a bridge, but I also don't use those bridges very often. The Bellevue ferry landing also seems under-sized for the volume of passengers that it would be handling.
A good warning that you are about to hear something that is stupid is this: "I am from [place] so". It often deals with food, particularly claims of expertise that apparently derive from living in one place or another. This line of reasoning is incredibly common, but I don't quite understand it and no evidence can be presented to substantiate its validity. The reasoning assumes that a particular stereotype is true - that all Texans eat meat at every meal so they can try everyone's meat preparations, which is how they know so much about it. There's also a myopia that goes along with this - the Best Myopia. That there is One Thing, the Ultimate Expression of this thing, etc. It doesn't really encourage critical examination of things - it is a set of biases that let you screen out things that don't fit your model of what the Ultimate ought to look like. The List-ification and what-not of the current age does not help this at all.
