Gumshoe Facts

The Gumshoe is an annual August fundraiser for the Greenwood Senior Center, a program of the Phinney Neighborhood Center. To do the Gumshoe, buy an entry form with clues that guide you through a roughly three-mile walk in Seattle’s Phinney/Greenwood neighborhood. Solve the clues, complete the walk, discover fun things along the way - from crazy garden art to math skills you thought you'd forgotten - and you qualify for a prize drawing!

Averaging two participants per entry form, over 400 amateur sleuths did the Gumshoe in 2009, raising over $4,000 for the Greenwood Senior Center. Our goals for 2010: 500 participants and $5,000!

Though the Fourth Annual Gumshoe 5K Walk ended August 16, we leave this site posted year around so you can view the clues and answers to the 2009 walk, see who won prizes in 2009 and get primed for next year's event. This site will be updated next July for the Fifth Annual Gumshoe 5K Walk, August 6-15, 2010.

Who Won in 2009

SAM W.

$250 Fred Meyer Gift Card

ALYSSA T.

$150 Fred Meyer Gift Card

MARIANNE R.

$100 Fred Meyer Gift Card

TOM W.

$225 Worth of Gift Certificates to Nine Local Eateries
(Eatsy Street Game Winner)

PAULA W.

$149.95 Cecil B. deRedMill Cash Award
(Video Contest Winner)

22 OTHERS

A Variety of Prizes from Local Businesses
(MiniGumshoe Winners)

Got a Clue?

If you know of something in Phinney/Greenwood that deserves to be on a Gumshoe 5K Walk, email its description and location/address to the Gumshoe Answer Man. No promises, but the GAM and his accomplices will investigate every lead and your clue just might end up as part of the next event. And, if not a prize, you'll win our undying gratitude!

Special Thanks To

CATH CARINE

for putting the entry form together

JAMES McFARLANE

for designing the poster and bookmark

MARIBETH STEPHENS

for writing and editing copy

PETE STUART

for creating this web site

MOLLY KIMMEL, JANICE RICHARDSON and JUDY MIRANTE

for test driving the Gumshoe and cheerfully doing so much of the grunt work
(that's them in the group photo to the right)