Seattle Moves to Tear Down the Squirrelman’s Beautiful Waterfront Treehouse
April 9, 2008 · Print This Article
A down-on-his-luck guy built a pretty amazing treehouse in Seattle and the city is moving ahead with plans to evict him and tear down his structure.
Over time, he raised his platform and expanded it to approximately 300 square feet. With the block and tackle, he raised a wood stove, chairs and shelves. On the platform rests his tent, three chairs and shelves. A counter cradles an unplumbed sink. The platform stretches across the branches of three trees and is, he said, “solid as a rock.” For a time he had electricity, temporarily donated by neighbors — even a TV, heater and stereo.
From scraps, it has a million-dollar view of the lake and Queen Anne Hill.
“I was happy as hell,” he said.
This story has a happy ending- David’s neighbors chipped in and bought him an RV- an RV that only cost them a penny when the couple coming to sell it heard what was going on and dropped their selling price to $.01.
Link [Seattle PI]
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I am currently living in a nursing home with someone who used to live with Squirrel Dave, as he is better known. I was told that Dave has been kicked out of every flophouse in Seattle for smoking crack and molesting women, some as young as 12 years old. Before the PI or any other paper deifies some homeless “eccentric” they should dig deeper into their story.