Rat City

[randy_byers]

One of the things I learned this weekend (I can't remember who told me, but maybe the waiter at TS McHugh's) is that Rat City is a name for White Center, which is where the Rat City Roller Girls started out. White Center is a little working class town outside of Seattle that has a bit of a (no doubt classist) low rent reputation. The only reason I'

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[jackwilliambell]

Well, I grew up around here and the story I heard has to do with White Center being the red light district for the docks along the Nisqually back when there were big ships coming up the river and lots of warehouses along the river banks. 1890s to 1940s timeframe I think.

The story is that the Nisqually would flood regularly and when it did the warehouse rats would go up the hill to White Center, thus the name.

[randy_byers]

Makes more sense than these attempts to treat RAT as an acronym!