Alma Maters
Wade Duffy
What is North Thurston?
Located at the southern terminus of Sleater-Kinney Road, the property where Panorama is located was used for this type of sports-related use.
What is golf?
When it was built, this was billed as the largest indoor mall between Portland and Seattle.
What is South Sound Center?
Praise! This type of use occupies the former Lacey Cinemas (the one in Olympia).
What is a church?
The site of the Target Warehouse was once a potential location for this horse racing track. Auburn was chosen instead.
What is Emerald Downs?
Tom Stiles
What is Timberline?
Sharing its name with a line of northern latitude, this former fast-food restaurant was located at the intersection of Sleater-Kinney Road and 6th Avenue.
What is the Artic Circle?
What’s the frequency, Kenneth? Started in 1921 as a mail-order company, this franchise found at South Sound Center is still in business (not in Lacey but mostly in other countries).
What is Radio Shack?
Hit a dinger and touch this home improvement business located where the Regal Cinemas at Martin Village is located now.
What is Home Base?
This professional racing circuit was once going to place a track where present day Cabela’s is located.
What is NASCAR?
Jennifer Burbidge
What is Tumwater?
One of the three original members of the band Sleater-Kinney.
Who is Carrie Brownstein, Corin Tucker or Janet Weiss.
You can now purchase South Sound Center's anchor tenant Sears appliance brand Kenmore from this big box home improvement store.
What is Lowes?
Intergalactic, planetary. This street is named for a future cinema that never landed.
What is Galaxy Drive?
On a Sunday afternoon, you’ll find me here enjoying a Hawks Prairie Extra Gold.
What is Top Rung Brewing?
Rick Walk
Intersecting with Sleater-Kinney, Martin Way is named after Clarence Martin, 11th of these for Washington State.
What is Governor?
Located in the northwestern corner of the South Sound Center parking lot, a festive feature celebrating this holiday was moved from Capital Lake to here.
What is Christmas?
Join me at the Lacey Drive-In in 1981 for this Burt Reynolds film about a cross-county road race.
What is The Cannonball Run?
No one talks about…the name of the first husband to the late unofficial “Mayor of Hawks Prairie”.
Who is Bruno?
Martin Hoppe
What is Timberline?
Have a ball at this musically named bowling alley previously located off of Sleater-Kinney Road.
What is Melody Lanes?
In the 1980’s, Bob Blume had proposed to bring this to the second story of South Sound Center. Those plans, like Bob’s frozen head, are still somewhere on ice…
What is a skating rink?
This star of a Mad Max sequel also once performed at the Evergreen Ballroom.
Who is Tina Turner?
Tumwater had the Olympia Brewery. Hawks Prairie was home to this misnamed fermented favorite.
What is the Olympia Cheese Factory?