It looks like a grassroots movement is starting up to support the P-I globe, which is exactly what is needed to put public pressure on the company to make sure this Seattle landmark sticks around. I talked some about the globe last month, and since then it’s been getting a lot more attention. Just this week an online petition was started to urge the Hearst Corporation to save the globe, no matter what may happen to the newspaper itself. It was started by Robert Raketty of SeattleBlogger.com. There’s only 170 signatures so far, but more important than the number of signatures is how it’s serving to get people talking about the globe, which is what’s really needed. Monica Guzman blogged about it on the P-I’s own site. P-I photographer Joshua Trujillo paddled a kayak out into the bay to get a photo of the globe that he’s wanted to get for years (completely awesome by the way. I give you permission to stop reading and click on that link right now). And just yesterday the globe itself “wrote” an editorial making its own case to be saved.

This is the kind of grassroots support that was around back in the 80s, which resulted in the globe being moved to the new offices instead of being scrapped with the old building. It seems like there’s another movement starting around “Save the Globe” now, and hopefully Hearst is paying attention. Far too many Seattle landmarks have been lost; there’s a whole book chronicling the things that have come and gone. We’re at a point now where maybe we’ll have some influence in making sure the globe isn’t part of “Vanishing Seattle, Volume II”.

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