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Remember when Herfy's was in the W.S. Nursery building?

Started 1 year ago by pam
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pam
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I remember when the WS Nursery building was a Herfy's and I thought then it was a pizza place and maybe an auto parts store. We were talking tonight about when KFC was where Starbucks is and when Shakey's was at Taco Time. A little WS nostalgia on a rainy night......

Posted 1 year ago #
Genesee Hill
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How about the Datsun dealer on Delridge?

Posted 1 year ago #
rdm
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I thought the Herfy was at the Jack in the Box and the nursery was a Arbys. What about Grouchos, had great burgers and awesome shakes

Posted 1 year ago #
PSPS
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Wasn't the Jack in the Box on Admiral a Herfy's back in the Pizza Haven days? Pizza Haven was a kitchen-only-delivery place across the street. And wasn't it Groucho's that was where Starbucks is now at Avalon & Fauntleroy? And don't forget the old Rocket gas station where the printer/dentist/tanning/cleaners is at 35th and Fauntleroy.

Posted 1 year ago #
pam
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Jack in the box was Herfy's also. I'm 95% sure it was a Herfy's in the 70's.

Ooooooooh....I bet it was an Arby's after it was a Herfy's. I remember a big fireplace in the middle which seems to be a signature of some Arbys.

Posted 1 year ago #
Bonnie
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Yes, Jack in the Box was a Herfy's and Met. Market was a Lucky before it was Thriftway/Met Market. I remember when Petco was a grocery store. I can't remember the name though. It had initials I think. I remember going to Websters for dinner and also New Luck Toy. I remember when Godfathers was in the junction (never went there though) and Shakey's and Groucho's. I sometimes wish Taco Time was still on the beach where Tully's was and I would occasionally shop at the grocery store where Cactus is now.

Posted 1 year ago #
clark5080
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Also the VW Dealer in White center on 16th SW just north of Roxbury
Also how boout the Artic circle on 35th and Roxbury

Posted 1 year ago #
clark5080
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Petco was originally an A&P then something else

Posted 1 year ago #
miws
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The last incarnation of grocery store in the Petco spot, was Tradewell.

Same for the (old) Morgan Junction Thriftway.

Mike

Posted 1 year ago #
celeste17
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The A&P became Tradewell.

Posted 1 year ago #
bebecat
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And remember Nifty's on Harbor Island and the Climax Tavern on this side of the bridge? The Skylark was the Delridge Tavern and the strip of stores was Bauman's Texaco gas station.

Posted 1 year ago #
JanS
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and...how about The Embers..next to the Alki Tav.....I remember watching the Sonics win the championship there in 1979...

Posted 1 year ago #
bebecat
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Oh yes the Embers...live music and lots of cigarette smoke...:) Loved it!!!

Posted 1 year ago #
miws
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Also on Harbor Island; A Sea-First Bank, east of Nifty, and a Fire Station (yes, even with the still existing one at the west side of the Duwamish) on the south side of Spokane St.

Mike

Posted 1 year ago #
TDe
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Anyone recall there being a Denny's on California Ave SW?

Posted 1 year ago #
Gina
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Jack in the Box was a Herfy's. West Seattle Nursery was a Herfy's. They opened at around the same time. Arby's replaced the Herfy's at the Junction, Herfy's on Admiral lasted longer, became Jack in the Box, Monteray Jack's, Jack in the Box.
Dairy Queen was in the building in the Lucky/Thriftway parking lot that was torn down when the store became Queen Anne Thriftway. (that is not a typo.)
Denny's on California was formerly a Sambo's.
During afternoon commutes to West Seattle, if the bridges went up, there were people that would walk the rows of cars and sell the evening Seattle Times. "Seattle Times! Night Final!"

Posted 1 year ago #
AdmiralJaneway
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I remember the Denny's being somewhere between the 7-Eleven and Rite Aid. It is now an apartment building.
The Taco Time was also a Boston Market.
Not West Seattle, but as a teen I remember shopping for clothes at The Squire Shop.
Was there a Pizza Pete in West Seattle?

Posted 1 year ago #
redblack
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thanks, pam and gina. i was waiting for my wife while she was in WS nursery one day last spring, and i noticed the roof line and the mismatched bricks - like where maybe some windows were filled in - and i thought, "you know, this looks like it used to be a fast food restaurant."

ahh, sweet vindication.

Posted 1 year ago #
elikapeka
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I think Denny's was where the VCA vet clinic is now.

Posted 1 year ago #
brew
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And the best pizza in town at the time...Banana Joes!, next to the Thrifty Drugs which is now Starbucks @ Calif. and Morgan.

Posted 1 year ago #
Smitty
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No, but I remember Herfy's on Evergreen Way in Everett!

Mmmmmm....Herfy Burgers after roller skating....

Posted 1 year ago #
Gina
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The VCA pet clinic building was a pizza place when it first opened, some chain place--nasty pizza.

There was a Pizza Pete in the building that last was the Redline on 35th. Had a giant fishtank.

Posted 1 year ago #
JanS
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Gina...wasn't that Pizza Haven? I seem to remember that. There was also a different pizza place where Pizza Pete was...I'm thinking Round Table...for just a little while...

of course...how many people remember Penny's Dog House? Calif . Ave. , where Charlestown Cafe is now...

Posted 1 year ago #
dawsonct
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Mike, bebe, was Nifty's on Harbor Island a diner/chili parlor? I remember my Dad taking me to a place on Harbor Island when I was a kid, but in recent years have driven around the island looking for a place like that and was starting to think my memories were just too hazy.

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JanS
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dawson, there was also a place down near the Chelan Cafe called the Blew Eagle...

Posted 1 year ago #
miws
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dawson, yeah, Nifty was just a regular ol' diner type place, might have even been considered a "greasy spoon".

I don't remember a lot about it specifically, but would compare it food wise to the Corner Inn, Vann's, or the Dog House Downtown.

Although, serving Longshoremen and such, it was probably a bit rougher around the edges.

I don't know how much, if any, you remember about the Span That the Ship Hit, but Nifty was located pretty much due north of the east end of the Bridge approach.

Mike

Posted 1 year ago #
pam
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The Rite Aid was a Safeway for a while, and then Pay n Save. The Sambo's/Denny's is where the apartments are now, it was a Johnny's for a little while. Is that the same location where a move theater was???

Skippers was at Erskine where the Uptown coffee shop is now (Uptown? I think that's the name). There was a butcher shop near Husky's but I'm not sure which building.

Loved Taco Time on Alki. Where the Alki Cafe is now, was a tri-plex, next to the laundromat (now Sunfish).

And you could drive throgh Harbor Island right past KJR and their radio tower and come right out where the 7-11 is now.

Posted 1 year ago #
Gina
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Remember The Shack? And remember never eating there again after trying it?

Posted 1 year ago #
pam
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haha - I do remember The Shack...and I don't think I ever ate there.

Posted 1 year ago #
Mookie
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Remember the Milk Barn in White Center??! I miss Pizza Pete's and Banana Joe's.

Posted 1 year ago #
jissy
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Pizza Pete was actually in the old Redline - we used to go there after soccer games when I was a kid and they had a build your own sundae bar -- it was awesome!!!

And my mom used to work at Penny's DogHouse!!!! Used to walk to the Dairy Queen, too in MetMarket parking lot, it then became Queen Anne Thriftway's coffee roasting house before it was torn down.

Posted 1 year ago #
thansen
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Thanks for this walk down memory lane, it put a smile on my face! My mom and I would meet at the Denny's on California and sit and talk for hours...I miss those days and I miss my mom.

I miss Pizza Pete too!

Posted 1 year ago #
bebecat
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My mother was a waitress at Nifty's in the mid 50's. My Dad would take us kids there for dinner and mom would get mad because we were eating up her "profits"(extra spending money)..I always remember standing at the cashier counter while dad was paying for our dinner looking at the Vargus trading cards, calenders and Zippo cigarette lighters. Oh near naked ladies for the childs eyes! That glass case was eye level for a kid!

Posted 1 year ago #
miws
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pam, the Granada Theater was on the block that has the 1980-ish built Granada Condo on one end, and Sambos/Dennys/Johnny's/more recently built condo/apt on the other end of the block.

Across Hudson St from that condo/apt, where the other condo/apt that was built around the same time was Spencer's Steakhouse/Yung Ya/China Ding How.

The meat market, (Bob's) and separately owned fish market, were where Taqueria Guaymas is now. The meat market along the south wall, fish market along the north. It had a big roll-up door in front, so had a very open, airy feeling. Before it was Guaymas, it was the relatively short lived chicken joint named Pojo's. Named after the way the owners' then small child pronounced the Spanish word for chicken; pollo.

Mike

Posted 1 year ago #
Gina
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Did anyone ever eat at the Fong Fong? Jan, is that the right name? The place had dirty windows, and dusty fake geraniums, and there was never ever anyone in there. Or the windows were so dirty they gave perfect privacy to any diners. I could be wrong, might have been the busiest place in the Junction!

Posted 1 year ago #
localboy
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...Shakey's Pizza where you could watch them make the pizza, and the black and white movies on the wall inside...countless birthday parties there.

Posted 1 year ago #
bebecat
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I suspect the Fong Fong had strong drinks and a clientele for those strong drinks. We never ate there...ick!

Posted 1 year ago #
pam
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Fun stuff!!! Were there two pizza places where KFC and the Redline is/was? I know we used to go to Pizza Pete after football games in the 70's - seems like there were two places to choose from. Maybe one was too expensve for our high school budgets????

Thanks everyone for contributing.

Posted 1 year ago #
LStephens
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Rite-Aid was a Safeway. The Thriftway building was oriented differently until a huge fire forced a rebuild. Maria's Mexican in the Junction and an Italian restaurant named Deccio's was also in the Junction. There was a fish market on one side of the same building that held the butcher near Husky.

Posted 1 year ago #
LStephens
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and my husband just recalled that Jefferson Square was Jefferson Elementary School.

Posted 1 year ago #
JanS
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bebecat..we always joked that the Fong Fong was a front for a card game in the back room :)

Posted 1 year ago #
JanS
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Pam...I seem to remember that Round Table Pizza was at the same location as Pizza Pete for just a little while.

Phoenicia got it's start, I believe, where Mashiko's is now. And, Jak's was a myriad of things before it became Jaks...the Alaska Junction (The AJ), Two Dagos from Texas...

Posted 1 year ago #
clark5080
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And West Seattle Hospital was down in the junction I think across the street from great harvest in a second floor

Posted 1 year ago #
miws
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WS Hospital was on the long chopped off second story of the building that houses Super Sup, Classic Barbershop (est 1927, and was for decades, in the block north, until Menashe did an expansion 20-ish years ago) and a few other shops.

Fong Fong was so inexpensive, and good food!

Husband and Wife run, she cooked, he waited tables. Must be 15 years or more (20 yet?) that it went out of business, but I wonder with the "dive" craze that's been going on for several years now, maybe it would have become really popular and busy if it were still around? They coulda ditched the card games, because the restaurant would have paid much better! ;-) They didn't have a bar, and as far as I can recall, didn't even offer beer and/or wine.

Yes, Phoenicia was where Mashiko is.

I'd forgotten about Deccio's. Have just a very vague picture of their storefront in my mind. I'm thinking north half of the Junction, west side, near/at Azuma Sushi's spot?

Maria's was in the Puerto Vallarta spot, and previous to that was, this is vague as well, I think up around the Azuma spot.

The Morgan Thriftway already had plans of rebuilding. The fire just accelerated the demolition process. ;-)

They had originally planned to keep the old store open, while building the new. I don't remember if they planned on building only part of the new one, then demo'ing the old one, or if they were going to build the entire new store before the demo. The latter scenario would have meant an incredibly terrible parking situation for the duration.

Also on the Thriftway lot, was the Morgan Liquor Store, in a separate building east of T'way, divided by part of the parking lot. The Liquor Store then moved across California, to a retail space in the Ivy Court Building. Previous to being next to Thriftway, that branch if the Liquor Store was up in kind of a back section of the O'Neill Plumbing building.

Going back to the old Hospital Building; in part of the basement of that building, was the Hospital's morgue. The thought just occurred to me that perhaps the huge project for that spot, and the spot across the alley (Rocksport) has been so long delayed, besides Rocksport holding them to the lease (I think by the initial plans, it should have been open 3 or 4 years now) is due to some spirits still hanging around the morgue resisting the change? And if/when the project is built, would you wanna live, work, own a business there? =:-o ;-)

Mike

Posted 1 year ago #
B-squared
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And wasn't there a winchell's where starbuck's is on Admiral (across from Baskin & Robins)? PCC used to be another grocery store too, didn't it? like a Mark & Pack type store? And i miss the seafood restaurant that used to be where Pailin is now (admiral).

Posted 1 year ago #
JanS
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Yes, Winchell's was at the Starbucks location, and PCC was a Prairie Market. And the seafood restaurant? Skipper's Galley? Wasn't that the name?...was just talking about it the other day...

Posted 1 year ago #
Gina
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Skipper's Galley. With the legendary phone book sized menu, and the kind of high strung owner/chef!

Posted 1 year ago #
cclarue
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Royal fork where blockbuster is. Somebody said the Embers which I don't remember but my mom used to go dancing there!!I remember the old westwood villiage that included winchells, pay n save, A Smile, a sticker store, Merle Norman cosmetics. A little cafe maybe bavarian? Hair hut ? A t-shirt printing shop, Lamonts,a little pet store. A bit off topic would be white center Herfeys, Dags, and Churches fried chicken and good old Chubby and Tubbys. and mcclendons was a pay n pak.

Posted 1 year ago #
elikapeka
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And then there was Mr. Ed's, which then became the Admiral Way Cafe, now Bank of America, on Admiral just a block west of California. I loved the wait staff in that place, especially Paula.

And I was talking to somebody the other day about the Italian restaurant in the Junction that sold a bucket of spaghetti, but couldn't remember the name of it for the life of me - Deccios' was it!

Posted 1 year ago #
celeste17
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True Value was were NW Arts and Frame is and G.O.
Guy's was were the mexican restaurant is now. Wigwam where sleepers and Kresses 5 and dime was about where Matador. I remember a hamburger joint where BE's is now. There first day they originally where offering free fries but somehow it became free burgers and fries.

Morton's use to have a snack bar (grill) in the back of the store and served green river sodas.

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