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Sign that hung in Tula's Jazz Club and Restaurant, ca. 1990
From 1993 to 2019, Tula's Jazz Club and Restaurant, located in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, served as a hub for Northwest musicians and was the place to go for live jazz six nights a week.
ID Number:2019.Tulas.Sign
Date:Circa 1990
Salt and pepper shaker set from the Frederick & Nelson dining room, ca. 1960
Frederick & Nelson, founded by Donald E. Frederick (1860-1937) and Nels B. Nelson (1854-1907) in 1891, was for many years Seattle's premier department store. They began by selling used furniture during the rebuilding of Seattle after the Great Fire of 1889, and expanded to include home delivery of goods, a tea room, and ready-to-wear men's and women's fashions. This donor…
ID Number:2020.9.1
Date:Circa 1960
Sign from Mama's Mexican Kitchen restaurant, 1974
Mama's Mexican Kitchen, opened in 1974, was one of the oldest restaurants in the Belltown neighborhood until it closed in 2019. Mam's had been a local favorite for over forty years and the original owner was taught how to cook by his Mexican grandmother, "Mama." The interior was very kitschy with amusing decorations all over the walls and ceiling, including…
ID Number:2020.14.1
Date:1974
Cooks and Assistants Union pin, Seattle Local 33, 1975
Member pin for Seattle Local 33 of the Cooks and Assistants Union under the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' International Alliance Union.
ID Number:2021.20.8
Date:1975
Matchbox from Doc Maynard's restaurant, ca. 2000
Doc Maynards is a long established restaurant and bar located in Seattle's Pioneer Square. It is named after one of the city's prominent early settlers and it is also where Seattle's famous Underground Tours begin. David "Doc" Maynard was an early physician and medicine shop owner who tended Seattle settlers and Duwamish people alike in the 1850s. But, he was…
ID Number:2021.86.2
Date:Circa 2000
Pressure cooker used at a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise owned by Gill Centioli, founder of Gil's Hamburgers
Gill Centioli opened his 19-cent hamburger stand in the Rainier Valley neighborhood of Seattle in 1950. He soon operated three fast food drive-ins known as Gil's Hamburgers (dropping one "L") during the 1950s. Meanwhile, Harlan Sanders, prior to moving to Kentucky in 1952 to establish his world wide fast food chain, briefly worked as a cook (and possibly perfected his…
ID Number:2022.25.1
Date:Circa 1957-1959
Copper tankard from the Vienna Saloon owned and operated by Lorenz Pavish, ca. 1905
Lorenz Pavish was born in 1865 in Austria and immigrated to the United States in 1891. He arrived in the Georgetown neighborhood of Seattle in 1904 after stints in Pennsylvania, Kansas City, San Francisco, British Columbia, and Portland, Oregon. He bought the Georgetown property soon to be named the Vienna Building in 1904 and opened a saloon and hotel. Lorenz…
ID Number:2023.21.1
Date:Circa 1905