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Bremerton’s Highest Point

Posted on March 29, 2019 | Leave a comment
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A high point that’s easy to find

This post is about elevation not cannabis stores.

The highest point in Bremerton is not actually in Bremerton—at least not in a part of the city where there are homes and parks and stores. In fact, it’s in an area that’s off limits to the general public. The photo shows the highest point you can go to. But that point is a lot lower than Bremerton’s highest point.
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Dancing Tax Man

Posted on February 20, 2014 | 2 comments

A dancing Uncle Sam


It’s tax season. In case anyone didn’t know that, a few weeks ago Liberty Tax Service on Kitsap Way stationed an employee out front who waves a sign urging people to come in and get their taxes done. Dressed as the Statue of Liberty, he’s there rain or shine and never seems to tire. Apparently more street-level advertising was needed though, as today they added a dancing tax man (see photo). I like the patriotic look, but I hope the new dancer doesn’t replace the real person. Although the photo doesn’t show it, the inflatable is unusual in that it has two blowers—one for each leg.

The Mud Bay blog can’t resist adding a post every time a new dancing man is spotted in the area. Previously I have run photos of dancing men in Silverdale, Port Orchard, and various locations on Kitsap Way. Where is the next one going to show up?

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From Movies to MJ

Posted on December 20, 2013 | 2 comments

A great place to sell pot?


Tad Sooter, a business reporter at the Kitsap Sun, recently blogged about the applicants for marijuana retail licenses in Kitsap County. Curious, I perused the list he provided to see if a pot shop will be opening near me. Assuming the licenses are granted and business plans succeed, there will be several, with two businesses indicating that they want to operate out of former video rental stores.
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Bremerton Construction Projects Updates

Posted on October 6, 2012 | 1 comment

Looking south toward the 11th and Warren intersection


The Mud Bay Blog played a role in getting Bremerton to start providing more timely information about construction projects in the city. Well, not actually the blog, but its purveyor. That would be me. But what does it matter who gets the credit as long as Public Works keeps updating the Construction Projects Status and Updates page on the city’s web site?
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USS Long Beach (1959–2012)

Posted on July 13, 2012 | 3 comments

USS Long Beach—hiding in plain sight


The USS Long Beach, the Navy’s first nuclear-powered surface ship, had been quietly moored in Bremerton, Washington, since being deactivated in 1994. Not any more. This week the big cruiser was towed away from its berth at the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility (see photo), ending any chance for an easy photo op.
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A Mossy Roof

Posted on June 22, 2012 | 2 comments

A nurse roof?


Nurse logs are common in the rain forests of the Olympic Peninsula. However, until this week I had never noticed that two old cabins at NAD/Soroptomist Park in Bremerton have what could be considered nurse roofs (see photo). The roof in the picture won’t go through the complete nurse-log cycle, but it will be interesting to see how tall the Western Hemlocks that sprouted there get before it collapses or the building is torn down.
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More Dancing Men

Posted on October 24, 2011 | 4 comments

That's me on the left.


What’s up with West Bremerton and dancing men? Along a 1.5-mile stretch of Kitsap Way/6th Street, there are four of the quirky inflatables. Statistically this is off the charts (I think). The local business district might be the state epicenter for deployed balloon advertising. In Great Minds Think Alike I showed a picture of the Jiffy Lube and Blockbuster Video entries. A better title might have been “Herd Instinct.” Did all four businesses hit on the dancing-man idea independently or is there a bit of copycat go-go going on here?

To correct the photo caption, that’s not really me on the roof of the Mid-Town Market. I do support free ATMs though. And free debit-card transactions (although Mid-Town probably doesn’t have them). Certainly both are worth dancing about. As for the Pep Boys figure, maybe he’s just happy because of his name.

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Creepy Car

Posted on October 19, 2011 | 2 comments

Spider on board


Actually the vehicle is a truck (see photo), but calling it a creepy car makes a better title. The previous post was also about Halloween decorations, although the holiday is still almost two weeks away. Similar to Christmas, people in Bremerton like to get ready for Halloween early, using their homes, businesses, and, in this case, vehicles to display a creepy creativity. The truck’s owner gets my Halloween award for this week.

You can achieve a bit of notoriety by hauling around a giant arachnid that looks like it might leap out onto the hood of the car behind you. Even so, this big guy isn’t for me. If I looked into my garage one morning and saw one like it in the bed of my truck, I would slam the door and then freak out, hopefully in that order. I haul a lot of firewood and yard waste so spiders undoubtedly hitch a ride with me from time to time. But there aren’t any spiders in my truck right now. I just checked.

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Driving in Bremerton

Posted on September 1, 2010 | 3 comments

It’s the first of September, the first day of the fall school term in Bremerton. That’s one more reason to be careful when driving around town. The safety of kids is of course paramount, but that’s not what I’m writing about. With red-light cameras at major intersections and a citywide emphasis on traffic enforcement, drivers already need to be especially vigilant when driving in Bremerton. The all-day 20-mph speed limit in school zones just ups the chances of getting a traffic citation.
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Fishing Sculptures

Posted on June 24, 2010 | 1 comment

Sculptures in 2010


Can anything new be said about the controversial public art (see photo) that was installed this month at the intersection of Fourth and Pacific in downtown Bremerton? The sculptures, of a fish and a fisherman, have been criticized in blog entries, in letters to the editor, and in hundreds of online comments on the Kitsap Sun web site. The answer is probably no, but that didn’t stop me from writing about them.
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