WRITTEN BY PAUL DORPAT

	COURTESY OF MUSEUM OF HISTORY & INDUSTRY
	Clarinetist Nicholas Oeconomacos' House of the Terrestrial Globe held the southwest corner of Roy Street and Minor Avenue. The southern corner of it sat in what is now the westbound lanes of the Mercer Street exit from Interstate 5. The rear lift tower of the old Ford assembly plant on Valley Street appears in both scenes.
	PAUL DORPAT

The little sidewalk sign at the bottom right-hand corner that reads "Enjoy Living Music" is surely Link's, and the house that fills most of the frame is the last home of the celebrated American-Greek virtuoso clarinetist. The home at 625 Minor Ave. was Oeconomacos' second residence in the Cascade neighborhood. The first (with the tulips) was foreclosed on him during the Great Depression for want of paying the mortgage. In a failed attempt to pay off the bank, Oeconomacos had busked with his clarinet and caged canary for small change on Seattle's main streets.

John Philip Sousa's "best clarinetist" (Oeconomacos took two world tours with Sousa) called this his House of the Terrestrial Globe. Hence the simple circle ornament top center. On the far west side of his home, the principal clarinetist of the Seattle Symphony appointed his Garden of Memories with fluted columns and other classical reminders that he managed to scrounge from thrift and junk stores and the back lots of second-hand building suppliers. It was there, seated in his Greek garden, that Oeconomacos played his last solo concerts of "living music" as the sign reads. The clarinetist was not fond of radio.