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Comment on The Balls of Bothell by mITCH

mITCH — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:43:03 +0000

Matt this is Mitch Darls nephew,better hurry that old sign is leaving soon.
Mitch

Comment on Down in the old hotel by Matt

Matt — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:49:04 +0000

Ha! That’s a great Camlin anecdote, now forever preserved. Thanks again, Stuart.

Comment on Down in the old hotel by stuart holm

stuart holm — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:32:30 +0000

Interesting that you say that, I have had similar thoughts, and feelings, about and, maybe from, this cleaver. The Camlin is no doubt haunted, at least with decades of different peoples energies. I read some references to the dumbwaiter, and while I was there, it was functional and we used it to transport food from the basement to the Cloud Room. I once had a dishwasher beg to ride up in it, and I let him. I was young then, but half way up one of my cooks threw the circuit breaker just to mess with him. What a sound, his muffled yelling from in inside, several floors up. Thanks for sparking so many memories. Stuart.

Comment on Down in the old hotel by Matt

Matt — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 14:06:28 +0000

Hi Stuart,
Thanks for stopping by and commenting. If you knew who put that meat cleaver there, and what they’d been cleaving with it, you might wish you didn’t. This post is one of the most frequently visited posts on my site and it’s because people seem to think the Camlin was haunted. You can tell by the search strings. Maybe some uncorruptible inspector who wouldn’t look the other way during Prohibition met his end in that dark place where you”wait for the splash”.

Comment on Down in the old hotel by stuart holm

stuart holm — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 21:51:05 +0000

I was the exec chef at the Camlin from May of ’90 to may of ’91, and while there, Pedro and his son Jesse (maintenance and housekeeping) removed a large piece of 1 inch plywood from the concrete wall in that back tunnel, and we crawled through the hole into a scary, forgotten place where old menus and other paper had been stored, and where you could throw a rock into the dark and wait for the ‘splash’./ On our way out I found a large, very old meat cleaver with LOTS of wear under a half inch of dust. I asked Pedro, :”who’s is this?” to which he replied “It’s yours chef.” Still have it and often wonder about it’s history/mystery. My office and the prep kitchen and store room were all down there, and there was a way to squeeze past the boiler to get into the housekeeping area, which I did once. Very mysterious basement. Very interesting part of my career. Wish I knew who put that cleaver there for me. Stuart.

Comment on The Balls of Bothell by Matt

Matt — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 06:59:56 +0000

Hi Debbie,
Thanks for visiting and for the comment. I hope someone does do a story. Will you let me know? I don’t get the Bothell paper so I won’t see anything they might do. If they don’t, let me know and maybe I’ll write one myself. If the North End papers don’t want it I could even post it here. Give my best regards to Mitch. I still mean to come out and take photos of that old sign he now has, but I just lost a family member myself and things are very difficult right now for us. It may be a while yet, but I haven’t forgotten.

Comment on The Balls of Bothell by Matt

Matt — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 06:54:45 +0000

Jeremy,
Thank you for your testimony about a person who I’m learning was apparently a wonderful fellow. It feels as though this blog post is becoming a host site for memories about Darl and Jeannine and I hope that the comments keep coming. I never dreamed when I wrote this piece years ago that it would be found by Darl and people who knew and loved him and Jeanine. They must have been quite a pair.

Comment on The Balls of Bothell by Debbie Gervasi

Debbie Gervasi — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 23:57:52 +0000

Mitch and I attended Darl’s memorial service this morning. Lot’s of friends and family attended with good food and stories afterward. Thanks for the thoughtfulness regarding this remarkable man, and his lovely and generous wife. They both were kind and friends to many-and yes you probably would have gotten that pie and cookies you thought might be at the end of the driveway, along with an ear to listen, a slap on the back and something said to make you belly-laugh.I wanted to let you know that there was a suggestion for doing a story, made a month or two ago by Mitch to one of the reporters. It is my understanding something is already underway…all that can be said about that is we just have to wait to see…what will be revealed.

Comment on The Balls of Bothell by Jeremy

Jeremy — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 04:23:53 +0000

I was lucky enough to have gotten to know Darl. I fished with him several times and learned many things which will come in handy in life.I have met several amazing people in my life but Darl is top my list by the example we showed me.Not just a nice guy but a Amazing person in so many ways.Im so lucky to have learned an laughed with him.

Comment on The Balls of Bothell by Matt

Matt — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:13:35 +0000

Martyn,
Great memories you’ve posted here. I’m amazed at all the detail you’re able to bring back. I wonder whether you meant Edmonds rather than Edmonton? We have an Edmonds up the road here, and it’s on the Puget Sound, but the only Edmonton I know of is in Alberta, Canada and I would question the health of their prawn stock so far inland. Yes, please let us know the date if you can find out. Thanks and all the best to you.