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Mon. May 8, 2006, 07:46pm PDT
R.I.P. - Tacoma's Deriugin art house
Word came to me too late to arrive in time to see Tacoma's eyesore/art house meet with its demise. The Deriugin house is no longer and was little more than an empty lot by the time I got to it. I got an email from another local blogger about the demolition. Previous discussion about this house on KevinFreitas.net ran the spectrum of whether it was art or a dangerous eyesore. Whatever it was, it is no more but in the photographs Tacoma lovers, myself among them, snapped that will now encapsulate this unique local piece of history for all time.
So long, house. The day I found out about you was the day I truly fell in love with this great, strange little city.
Feel free to leave your "farewells" and "good riddance" here as a way to remember the house that should never be forgot.
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5/9/2006 @ 9:03am
Kevin, picture no. 7 is awesome.
Sorry I didn't get word to you sooner on this...I was very close to posting something on my site last week when I heard about the scheduled demolition and then decided not to.
Would have loved to have seen your pics of the process.
Oh well.
by jamie
5/9/2006 @ 9:15am
Thanks anyway, Jamie -- and that's for the photo comment. I almost didn't put that one up. It was a crazy looking place but cities need crazy things here and there. Helps remind us what's sane.
by KevinFreitas
5/10/2006 @ 7:17pm
when i went past there the other day all the rubble was gone and there was a guy with a metal detector scanning the lat
by Karin
5/10/2006 @ 7:18pm
i mean lot
by Karin
5/10/2006 @ 7:43pm
The sure made short work of that place. I have to admit the neighborhood looked far better without it than when I paid my visit last December.
I wonder if the metal detector guy found anything... Rusty nails perhaps?
by KevinFreitas
5/10/2006 @ 11:47pm
Did you see this? SO SAD!!! http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/realestate/?title=in_case_you_missed_the_demo_of_the_oddes&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
by Marlow Harris
5/11/2006 @ 1:37am
Hey, that thing sure looked cool. Good to see that some people don't mind taking on the powers that be to make a statement.
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by Jeff Richardson
5/11/2006 @ 6:22am
Jeff: I'm currently working to bring the local blog community together a bit (see http://www.kevinfreitas.net/journal/tacoma-blogger-meet-up/) so our paths may cross when the time is right. Keep you eyes out here to see what we come up with.
by KevinFreitas
5/12/2006 @ 3:54pm
I'm mixed. Mostly I'm glad to see it gone. But yet another part of me feels sad that's it's not here anymore. I do however feel happy for the neighbors not having to see it everyday. Nobody really knows what was going on in the mind of the owner, in his mind he may of thought it was beauitful. Until we have the ability to walk in the shoes of others we will never know.
by Steve
6/12/2006 @ 7:40am
I delivered pizza next door to that house once.. it was about 9 or 10 at night in the middle of spring too so it was rather dark. Talk about being a rather eerie sight at night.
It's certainly sad to see something like this that's been around for so long disappear so suddenly and violently. Honestly though, I don't think it's exactly a big loss to the community.
by Joel Parker
6/20/2008 @ 6:58am
So it's been a couple of years, what replaced this wonderful house? Some multistory condo or apartment in neutral colors, boxy, over priced and with not enough off street parking? How about making the story complete...and showing the lot now that progress and the city have had their way
by Andee
6/20/2008 @ 7:18am
@Andee: I don't believe anything has gone up in its place. I haven't passed by there in the last couple months but since then it's been an empty lot.
by KevinFreitas