{"id":9720,"date":"2014-11-20T08:05:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T16:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/?p=9720"},"modified":"2014-11-24T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T20:04:19","slug":"skyway-luggage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/20\/skyway-luggage\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyway Luggage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Skyway Luggage Building by Pam, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/15215014393\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8276\/15215014393_2635a2103c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Skyway Luggage Building\" width=\"570\" height=\"387\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Skyway started making luggage in 1910. The company still exists as a brand, owned by Ricardo Beverly Hills, though it looks like their luggage is made in China now, no surprises there.\u00a0 The old Skyway building, which was once their headquarters, sold to a music company in 2012 but it&#8217;s still wearing a For Sale sign. The neighborhood is fast turning to condos, so it probably won&#8217;t be too long before this funky old warehouse site, an endangered species in the Belltown neighborhood, is gone, replaced by highrises with units starting at 300,000 for a lower floor studio\u00a0 unit with no view and not much natural light. The poster graffiti Native in the doorway is one of several downtown. This one&#8217;s been messed with a little, but in their original state, they&#8217;re not just beautiful, they&#8217;re also a reminder of the city&#8217;s history and the people who lived here long before luggage was a disposable consumer product and warehouses, neglected, turned to condos seemingly overnight.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Poster Indian by Pam, on Flickr\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/nerdseyeview\/15649782930\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7475\/15649782930_331d73eebb_z.jpg\" alt=\"Poster Indian\" width=\"571\" height=\"432\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skyway started making luggage in 1910. The company still exists as a brand, owned by Ricardo Beverly Hills, though it looks like their luggage is made in China now, no surprises there.\u00a0 The old Skyway building, which was once their headquarters, sold to a music company in 2012 but it&#8217;s still wearing a For Sale &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Skyway Luggage\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/20\/skyway-luggage\/#more-9720\" aria-label=\"Read more about Skyway Luggage\"><br \/>&#8230;read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-seattle","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9720"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9757,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9720\/revisions\/9757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nerdseyeview.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}