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Growler bottle from Georgetown Brewing Company, ca. 2018
Georgetown Brewery was founded by Manuel "Manny" Chao and Roger Bialous in 2003. Manny, the son of Chinese and Taiwanese immigrants, was working for Mac and Jack's Brewing in the mid-1990s when he first met Roger. But it wasn't until 2002 that they partnered up and started brewing together. Manny's Pale Ale was an instant major hit in the local…
ID Number:2026.4.2
Date:2018
Shelly's Leg wooden sign with palm trees and mirror, ca. 1973
Shelly's Leg, Seattle’s first disco, opened in December 1973 at the foot of Main Street. Co-owner Shelly Bauman, a colorful figure, named the bar for the leg she lost to a cannon that misfired in a Pioneer Square parade. Money from the lawsuit helped her start the bar. "I wanted a place where everyone would feel welcome, no matter what…
ID Number:2026.9.1
Date:Circa 1973
Glue pot that started the "Great Seattle Fire" in June, 1889
On June 6, 1889, in the basement of the Pontius Building at the corner of Madison Street and Front Street (now First Avenue), a simple carpenters glue pot in a cabinet shop boiled over, and the foamy mass on the stovetop ignited wood shavings, containers of paint and turpentine in the shop, and in moments the building was in flames.…
ID Number:L14.1987.GluePot
Date:Circa 1880
Brown mole fur hat, 1909
This hat was sold at Hetrick Hat Shop which was located on Madison Avenue in Seattle in the early 20th century.
ID Number:M119
Date:1909