Elephant Super Car Wash, a landmark at Battery and Denny Way in Seattle's Denny Regrade area. Elephant Car Wash started business in 1951 south of Downtown Seattle on Lander Street. The sign above on Denny Way began spinning in 1956.
So, do you take your car through a car wash, or wash it by hand?
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I was almost afraid you were going to say they were going to take this down! It is my now-favorite sign in Seattle, since the "Toe Truck" has disappeared from its original location (where is it...?)
I take my car to get it washed...occasionally.
We take it to a car wash, but it isn't a drive-thru - you have to actually get out of your vehicle and do the washing yourself. I don't know what you have to pay for a wash at the Elephant, but it costs us about $4.00 in quarters to give ours a good scrub.
What a great sign. I zip through the cheapo when I get gas.
V
PS So very sorry to hear about your friend, Chuck.
I do ours myself most of the time. My wife's father used to work at the one in downtown Tacoma.
I look for that elephant every time I come to Seattle! Love seeing it there!
That's another good thing about owning a Mini..
No more than 10mn to wash it...
by hand of course!
Great sign.
Pity you didn't take three steps to the left and shoot the photo so the pole wasn't right smack dab in the middle of the elephant.
Tony, you're right about the light pole of course. However, given the fact that this photo was made from my car window while waiting for a traffic light and in heavy traffic, moving left or right was not an option. Perhaps another time .......
just another note to Tony: my exercise of "a photo a day" is not about creating masterpieces or perfect images. The whole purpose of the exercise is to create new images every day; a "practice" if you will. The constant daily application of visual exercise helps to seeing more with greater visual acuity the norm, rather than the exception. Sure, I saw the pole. And yes, I made the decision to be just a bit "imperfect" and chose to make the photo with the pole bisecting the sign. I thought consciously about the placement of the pole relative to the turning of the sign in the given amount of time I had before the light changed.
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