Seattle Adult Entertainment: The Corner: 23rd and Union, Movement
Wright: “It was the whole basis of this whole community falling apart. Because, see first of all if people weren’t on drugs, maybe they had a chance to go to school. Maybe they had a chance to get educated. Maybe they had a chance to get a good job, a good paying job. And maybe they could just take over, the next generation. Keep the rent up. Keep the mortgage up. Keep the property value up. No.”
Ray says he knows people who lost the family home because they were strung out on crack.
Wright: “I mean there is a lost generation. And you got killings and stabbings and shootings. And oh, it was a mess. Cause everybody was strung out.”
In the 80s and early 90s, the corner was notorious.
Kalina: “And that’s when I went over there. It was mostly gangs. Drug sales. Prostitution. Just the underbelly of our society.”
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