Today's Southend Delight: The disenfranchised Safeway

This is most assuredly not the only Safeway in this style left in the world, but it's probably one of the last ten. It's that late 60's - early 70's Mansard roof design they used to have, and that they still have in neighborhoods like Holly Park: A former housing project turned into "mixed use" housing on the very tattered edge of south Seattle.

What's surprising to me is not that it is still there so much as it was ever there at all. Although it should be noted that in the parking lot of this Safeway is an even older Safeway, which is now a Bank of America branch, so Safeway has had a presence here for quite a while.

With the impending light rail opening, all sorts of cutesy housing is being built around here with names like "Othello Station". Time will tell if this will bring the neighborhood one of the new Desparate Housewive's sort of Safeway (like in nearby Rainier Beach)