This list is sure to create some controversy as I'm sure I'll accidentally leave a well designed building off the list. My apologies to anyone who feels slighted but these are the coolest buildings in Yakima from my perspective as someone who has lived here for a year and a half...
Travel & Leisure magazine's website posted an article ranking "America's Coolest Desert Towns" and Yakima came in at #10 out of 16. The article noted our standing as America's dominant growers of hops and apples and the hard work it took to turn the Yakima Valley from barren desert to a thriving agricultural hub and America's 3rd largest wine producing region...
Some folks from the Westside and in the Tri-Cities have unfairly ripped into the Yakima Valley and we think it's a pretty damn awesome place to live. So we compiled our list (with help from our listeners) of the 71 best things about living here:
#1...
And I'm not talking and a reboot or and updated version of it, I mean which cartoons did you grow up with that they don't show anymore. Even in reruns, you'd like to see it on TV every once in a while? Here's what I'd love to see.
Freakazoid
Earthworm Jim
Conan: The Adventurer
Gobots (I know, it's not Transformers, but I still liked it)
Tiny Toons
Animaniacs would be near the top of the list, bu
As a glasses-wearer, and I have been since the third grade, I'm always fond of anyone who wears glasses in TV shows. Thinking about it, not too many people wear glasses on TV. How many can you list? Here's all I came up with.
Steve Urkle
Dexter (from Dexter's Laboratory)
Leonard Hofstadter from Big Bang Theory
Harry Potter
Michael Douglas in 'Falling Down'
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Thought today would be a good day to start my xmas shopping, so I called a local departmenet store to see if they could help me with any of the items on my list........but I forgot to tell them that my family has weird taste in gifts.