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kaywood | October 3, 2008 at 05:46 pm
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[Video Story] After 11 years at the same Cascade Neighborhood location Kapow, home of the notorious SLUT t-shirts, was informed this week that they were losing there lease and will be homeless after November 1st. As the oldest cafe in Seattle's Cascade Neighborhood, the loss of Kapow is a shock to the areas independent small business spirt. The Munro Family trust, who owns the small garage in which Kapow operates, intends to turn the space next to Kapow into a coffee house, and needs the space for seating. Angela Baker founder of Kapow is not sure what she will do now. Jeremiah St. George the brains behind the Slut T-Shirts is just as uncertain of his future. Community support and outage about the loss if Kapow as been huge. For more information on how you can help Kapow visit there website at Kapowcoffeeshop.com or stop by there location.
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Seattle Coffee House Kapow! Closing
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at 18:10 on October 3rd, 2008
kaywood, I like this story. It's good stuff. Shame to hear about this.
at 01:00 on October 4th, 2008
kaywood, I like this story. It's good stuff. The closing of any idependent coffee shop is bad - there are not that many left with the global highstreet invasion of corporate coffee shops such as Starbucks etc. Here in the UK there seems to be a slight backlash starting against the corporates with many franchises closing down - there are maybe just too many of them. The thing that compounds the problem is that some other big shop chains do deals to put corporate brands into their shops as coffee stops - be much better if these shops looked to have local businesses inside their shops - some of our big book dealers could do should do this for a start...
at 17:29 on October 6th, 2008
Really a shame about this. I hope they find a new space but that is very tough down there in the old Cascade neighborhood. Now that it's "South Lake Union" all there is available are very expensive, huge and mostly empty spaces owned by Vulcan and then old buildings (also mostly owned by Vulcan) set for demolition. Kapow! is iconic. They are an institution in South Lke Union and Vulcan should square off and build out a 100-200 square foot space for them on Westlake or somewhere else in the area, charge them fair market value for the space and let them keep their small independent business. They talk about keeping the character of the neighborhood. It's about time they step up and do something about it. It's not all dollars and cents. At leaset you can still get your shirts at www.ridetheslut.com