Seattle Adult Entertainment: Historic homes, modern pride on McKinley Hill
… It’s getting better,” Gerri Razor said at Fergie’s, as she boasted of her contributions to neighborhood improvement. “Thank God for people like us.”
CHANGING FOR THE BETTER
Longtime residents talk of positive changes in the past 10 years, especially a decline in crime. The area isn’t perfect, they say, but it’s become better.
“A lot of it is because the neighborhood pulled together,” Ron McPherson, 47, said Friday on his front porch at East 34th and I streets. He has lived there seven years. The house was his girlfriend’s childhood home; she later bought it from her parents.
When McPherson moved in, people sold crack cocaine next to children who played on his front sidewalk, he said. One night he took a trash bag out to his back alley and a prostitute was engaged in unsavory activities.
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