Love it.
The Stranger recently interviewed Neko Case about her youth in Tacoma (onetime home to yours truly) and Seattle:
For a stretch, she lived down the street from the Frisko Freeze in Tacoma. She raves about the cheeseburgers and fries, but recounts that they didn’t employ women, at least when she used to eat there on a regular basis before moving away in 1994. She explains, “I actually asked for a job once, and they told me to my face, ‘We don’t hire women.’ I almost put on a corset and took to the streets! Burger suffrage! Weird. They have a shrimpwich, but I dare not taste it.”
Thanks to Megan for the tip.
Come to think of it, I don’t think I’ve ever seen a woman working at Frisko Freeze. And I went there twice in the last week… oops. There is some internal conflict to be had here.
On the other hand, Neko Case will always be my number one hometown hero. LOOK AT HER.
Actually, my good friend Tia has worked there on and off for the last three or four years, and she got our mutual Taylor a job there as well. Times have changed since ‘94!
