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Three stained glass panels from Seattle's Arctic Club, ca. 1907
Seattle's Arctic Club was originally established in 1907 as a "social club" for successful businessmen with ties to the Gold Rush or Alaskan connections. This stained glass mural once graced the front of the Arctic Club and celebrates the intrepid sled dog, the fastest and safest way to carry cargo and trek the wintry regions of the north.
ID Number:1972.5300
Date:Circa 1900
Souvenir boot-shaped beer glass from Café Germania in Seattle, ca. 1901-1916
From 1899-1900, William Bloch ran the Germania Saloon at 1122 2nd Avenue. In 1901, he established the Café at 118 2nd Avenue. It moved to the corner of Seneca and 2nd Avenue in 1910 and stayed there until 1916, when it closed.
ID Number:1972.5339.1
Date:Circa 1901-1916
White china plate from Brehm's delicatessen, Seattle, ca. 1930s
William Brehm and George Brehm opened Brehm's Egg Company in 1915, and in 1938 they had a fish and meat store in West Seattle. They then moved to University Way near the University of Washington before opening their produce and grocery delicatessen business in Pike Place Market. This white china plate is from that delicatessen.
ID Number:1976.6322.2
Date:Circa 1930
ION armchair from Space Needle revolving restaurant, 1962
The iconic Space Needle in Seattle was built for the 1962 World's Fair, entitled "Century 21" celebrating new innovation and technology and a futuristic theme. The revolving restaurant, "Eye of the Needle," opened for the fair and soon became a top dining destination for Seattleites and visitors to the city. Gideon Kramer, a Seattle designer, artist, inventor, teacher, builder, lecturer,…
ID Number:1981.7348.1
Date:1962
Bob Murray's Dog House Restaurant neon sign, ca. 1930
This sign that hung outside the Dog House Restaurant features a “wagging” dog tail considered to be the first moving neon sign in Seattle. The Dog House, according to an article by Stuart Eskenazi in the Seattle Times, Nov. 7, 2000, was a “24-hour kitschy diner at Seventh Avenue and Bell Street where crusty waitresses dispensed sass with black coffee…
ID Number:2000.21.22
Date:Circa 1930
T-shirt featuring the Dog House Restaurant, 1994
The Dog House, according to an article by Stuart Eskenazi in the Seattle Times, Nov. 7, 2000, was a “24-hour kitschy diner at Seventh Avenue and Bell Street where crusty waitresses dispensed sass with black coffee and the menu featured rib-eye steak (“tenderness not guaranteed”), peppered ham and eggs (“rye toast 10 cents extra”) and spaghetti smothered with chili.” The…
ID Number:2000.75.1
Date:1994
Turf Restaurant neon sign, ca. 1930s
In the 1950s, the Turf was located at Third Avenue and Union Street where businessmen often ate and held lunchtime meetings. Then the restaurant moved to the bottom floor of a brick building at Third and Pike, a half-block east of Pike Place Market where it was mostly frequented by homeless people, drunks and drug users, and was a pay…
ID Number:2003.18.1
Date:Circa 1930
Bartell Drugs waitress apron, ca. 1940s-1950s
Bartell Drugs, established in 1890, is one of the oldest family-owned Seattle stores still in business. Waitresses at the lunch and soda fountains wore these aprons as part of their uniforms in the 1940s-1950s.
ID Number:2004.66.1
Date:Circa 1940-1950
Beer glasses from the Ben Paris Restaurant and Club, ca. 1940s
The Ben Paris Restaurant opened in the late 1920s at the NE corner of Fourth Ave and Pine Street in Seattle, and was a combination restaurant, bar, pool hall, and sporting goods store.
ID Number:2008.60.1
Date:Circa 1940
Silk screen print, "Artist's drawing of Ivar's Pier 54 on Seattle's central downtown waterfront between Madison and Spring Streets" by William Werrback, ca. 1970-1980
This architectural drawing appears to be a proposal by Ivar Haglund to upgrade Pier 54 where Ivar's Restaurant is located. Haglund was a famous Seattle character who established the city's first aquarium on Pier 54 and a fish-and-chips stand that grew to become the renowned "Acres of Clams" restaurant. The artist, William Werrbach (b.1925), was born in Seattle and studied…
ID Number:2011.1.238
Date:Circa 1970-1980