User:Elizabethnguyen

Born and raised in Seattle, WA in March 14th. Attending the Art Institute of Seattle for Bachelor's in Fashion Design.

=Humanities I/The Commons=

Midterm Research Project
U District's Tubs, located on the corner of Northeast 50th Street and Roosevelt Way http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Im1Wbkdp6eQ

Once known as Tubs, a place where people came to relax in hot tubs was assumed to be a sleezy place where people came to do drugs and have sex. But, it was actually a spa like it said it was. Rumors were possibly started because of the intimacy of each room with a hot tub along with tanning beds and a sauna. It was opened in 1982 and closed in 2007.

The graffiti was done by the Free Sheep Foundation and is unfortunately a temporary display of graffiti style murals covering the building. The graffiti itself was done by 20 artists and some of them have messages regarding what's going on in the world. When the murals were complete, there were some mixed reviews about it. Some people that live there believe that it will only encourage more graffiti artists to tag in the U District while others say that it's amazing and it will hopefully attract graffiti artist and keep them in one area. When the building is taken down, it will be replaced by a 60 unit apartment building with ground floor retail.

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