Yakima At Night

[mellotrongirl]

Some photos taken by Jeni Kayoa the evening of Jan. 10, 2008:

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[moosanova]

I hate Yakima !!!!

Plain and Simple

[jake840]

The building in the 3rd picture down looks a lot like Tacoma's City Hall (current)
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Pic From Here (http://img.groundspeak.com/waymarking/display/41124926-c400-44c7-8863-c3e3545891ed.jpg)

[PuyoPiyo]

Interesting, never know much about Yakima during the night. Thanks for sharing :)

[James Bond Agent 007]

Nice, we don't see much Yakima here.

[Hub for an Empire]

I've never been to Yakima. I'm surprised how tall the buildings are there. It is nice to see another Inland Northwest City post on this site.
Keep them coming!

[Cottonwood]

Very cool, I have some friends from Yakima but have never seen pics of the city.





I've never been to Yakima. I'm surprised how tall the buildings are there. It is nice to see another Inland Northwest City post on this site.
Keep them coming!


Hub for an Empire, check out the mountain west forum. Other inland northwest cities like Boise and Coeur d'Alene have reps who post pictures with updates on current projects.

[mellotrongirl]

Actually, I'm new to what Yakima is all about---I've been going up there shuttling friends from NE Oregon and was surprised Yakima has even a little skyline. There are a couple other buildings in the ten-to-twelve storey category, but no real new "skyscrapers" have been built there in years. The city is fanning out all over the countryside and up and over the hills. My dilemma at this time is that I only have been there a few times in the evenings, so no daytime shots. Yakima appears to be a sleepy city with not much nightlife--unlike Boise or Coeur d'Alene. maybe if Yakima was a college town, things might be different...? The Tri-Cities 80 miles SE of Yakima (Kennewick/Pasco/Richland) has some cool neighborhoods with Hispanic color in their boutique and Mexican food restaurants, but nothing taller than the courthouses or a grain elevator or three.

[urbanlife]

oh I hate the tri-cities. I have never been to Yakima, but would think it would have to be better than the tri-cities. I am surprised the have a decent small urban core.

[mellotrongirl]

The Tri-Cities has some excellent second hand shopping (lots of hand-made items show up when Hispanic and Native American Indian cultures merge), and I've found some vintage music gear, rare records, and other goodies...it's nice to know eBay hasn't really been discovered there yet. There are boutiques all over, especially in downtown Pasco. Pasco looks like a throwback to the early 1960's. The storefronts, the kind of kitsch streetlevel architecture that grapples the downtown core area. Richland is sprawl north and east of the city center, which is ill-defined by low-profile boxey buildings. Kennewick is a bit more modern and the neighborhoods with old growth trees snuggle right up to the downtown area, which is a mishmash of railroad yards, industrial zones and quite a few abandoned lots. There is a nice pedestrian mall, and that's about it. All the sprawl goes south and west in Kennewick. The Tri-Cities has a great mass transit system with buses that run all the time; a few are the Dennis-styled Hong Kong single level transits with the scoop windshields and all. The Columbia River banks have some nice parks. Yet the demographics and climate of Kennewick/Pasco/Richland just aren't attractive at all. People just don't move there because of the scenery, nightlife, and favorable year-round weather--and the crime rate is poor also. You either have hot, dusty endless dog days of summer, or fogged-in grey inversions continuously for most of the winter. I get the sense that people who live there are kind of stuck there. Same goes for all the towns like Grandview, Sunnyside, Prosser, Toppenish, etc. all the way up to Yakima. Some nice orchards, but it's no better than Nampa/Caldwell/Ontario in my book. Or Hermiston!

[James Bond Agent 007]

Yakima always seems to get a bad rap, but every time I've gone there (and I have gone there quite a few times), I don't find it to be all that bad a place. It's got a pretty nice setting, it's not exciting but it's not run-down either, and it's a fairly compact town. And as noted in this thread, it's even got a bit of a skyline. ;)