SCENES FROM A YOUNGER, MORE HOPEFUL CITY

COMING SOON TO A BOOKSHELF NEAR YOU

I’ve compiled a picture book all about disappeared Seattle landmarks.

Thanks in part to many of you loyal MISCmedia readers, the book’s chock full of photos, post cards, and memorabilia from Seattle’s recent past, specifically the second half of the 20th century (restaurants, bars, nightclubs, TV/radio personalities, local celebrities, amusement parks, stores, locally-made consumer goods, signs, buildings, bridges, and Bubbleators).

Seattle’s still a young city, growing and changing. But a lot of its short past is gone. But not forgotten. Generations of Seattleites have fond memories of past icons and landmarks. They evoke a less sophisticated, more freewheeling, more optimistic city.

Vanishing Seattle explores a city where timber and fish were more lucrative than airplanes and computers, a place of kitschy architecture and homespun humor, a place bounding with hope for a brighter future (as seen at the 1962 World’s Fair). We’ll recall shopping trips at Frederick & Nelson, dinners at Rosellini’s, burgers at Dag’s, and dancing at the Trianon Ballroom. We’ll root for baseball’s Rainiers. We’ll travel on the ferry Kalakala and on the Interurban Railway. We’ll meet some local personalities of that time (Stan Boreson, J.P. Patches, Wunda Wunda).

Vanishing Seattle is a book every Seattleite and ex-Seattleite of a certain age will crave.

Here are some of the book’s many, many subjects:

STORES

• Frederick & Nelson
• The Bon Marche
• Downtown Penney’s
• Rhodes of Seattle
• Lamonts
• I. Magnin
• McDougall-Southwick
• Jay Jacobs
• Woolworth and Kress
• Gov-Mart
• Marketime and Valu-Mart
• Doc Freeman’s
• Warshal’s
• Chubby & Tubby
• Pay ‘n Save
• Ernst Hardware
• G.O. Guy
• Trident imports
• Shorey’s Books
• Fillipi’s Books
• Beauty and the Books
• Squire Shops
• Wigwam
• Jafco
• Fallout Records
• (old) Nordstrom
• Glamorama
• Ruby Montana’s
• S&M Market
• A&P
• Tradewell
• Art’s Family Center
• Food Giant 

RESTAURANTS

• Dog House
• (original) El Goucho
• Twin Teepees
• Dag’s
• Rosellini’s 410, 610
• Captain’s Table
• Last Exit on Brooklyn
• Speakeasy Cafe
• Manning’s
• Abruzzi’s Pizza
• Herfy’s
• Clark’s chain
• Cloud Room
• Ben Paris
• Copper Kitchen
• Pizza & Pipes
• Western Coffe Shop
• 2nd Ave. Pizza
• Brasserie Pittsbourg
• Longshoreman’s Daughter
• King Oscar’s
• Woerne’s European Pastry Shop
• Lion O’Reilly’s
• Great American Food and Beverage Co.
• Manca’s 

BARS AND NIGHTCLUBS

• Trader Vic’s
• (old) Place Pigalle, aka Pig Alley
• (old) Frontier Room and other dive bars
• Jake O’Shaugnessey’s
• Trianon Ballroom
• Spanish Castle
• Wrex
• (old) Rainbow
• OK Hotel
• Sit & Spin
• Colourbox
• The Vault (jazz club beneath the original 211 Club)
• Penthouse (original Pioneer Square jazz club)
• Gibson House
• Admiral Benbow Inn
• Ernie Steele’s/Ileen’s
• Golden Tides
• Shelley’s Leg
• Boren Street Disco
• The Monastery 

BUILDINGS AND STREETSCAPES

• Twin Teepees
• Jolly Roger
• Coon Chicken Inn
• The First Avenue sleaze district
• “The Blob”
• Cyclops restaurant/Jell-O mold building
• Grandma’s Cookies sign
• Wonder Bread sign
• Pacific Lincoln-Mercury sign
• Blue flame neon
• Broadway and Queen Anne high schools
• First Christian Church
• Temple de Hirsch
• Municipal Building
• Old Seattle Public Library
• White-Henry-Stuart Building
• Burke Building 

COMPANIES AND PRODUCTS

• Seafirst and Rainier banks
• Frye’s and Bar-S meats
• Societe candy
• Fisher flour
• Pomerelle wines
• Vitamilk
• Sunny Jim peanut butter and jams
• Mary Pang’s frozen foods
• Rainier and Olympia beers 

SPORTS, ARTS, AND ENTERTAINMENT

• Rainiers
• Kingdome
• Sick’s Stadium
• Hydros, the early years
• Longacres
• 211 Club
• Warren Harding monument, Woodland Park
• Luna Park
• Playland
• Leilani Lanes
• Showboat Theater
• Cinemas: Coliseum, Music Hall, Broadway, UA 70/150, Orpheum
• Pioneer Square Theater/Angry Housewives
• Aqua Theater
• Namu and the original Seattle Aquarium 

TRANSPORTATION

• Hat n’ Boots
• America’s first gas station (by Standard Oil of Calif. on East Marginal Way)
• The Kalakala
• Old ferry terminal
• Trolleys
• Interurban Railway
• Old Lacey V. Murrow floating bridge
• Old West Seattle bridge
• Boeing Field
• Old Sea-Tac terminal
• Toe Truck 

CENTURY 21 AND SEATTLE CENTER

• Bubbleator
• Boats inside Memorial Stadium
• Hawaii pavilion
• Union 76 Skyride
• Fun Forest’s Flight to Mars
• Gracie Hansen’s Paradise International
• Civic Auditorium
• Jones Fantastic Museum 

MEDIA PERSONALITIES

• J.P. Patches
• Captain Puget
• Ivar Haglund
• Brakeman Bill
• Stan Boreson
• Wunda Wunda
• Sheriff Tex
• Bob Cram and Bob Hale
• Leo Lassen
• Wayne Cody, Pete Gross, Don Heinrich
• KVI: Hardwick and co.
• KOMO: Larry Nelson and co.
• KJR: Pat O’Day and Charlie Brown
• Almost Live! 

The 128-page (6″ x 9″) paperback has 215 large monochrome pix, meticulously captioned.

Vanishing Seattle is published by Arcadia Publishing. It’s also available thru Amazon.

There’s also a set of (lovely, of couse) Vanishing Seattle Postcards, available thru Amazon.