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April 8, 2008 at 5:00 am #621490
JanSParticipantTodd in Westwood…yes, you do remember a Herfy’s south of the Alaska Junction…about where the animal hospital is now. I think there was a Pizza Haven around there too in the mid-70’s…
April 8, 2008 at 5:42 am #621491
JeraldParticipantWasn’t the Redline, former Roundtable Pizza, a pizza place with a different name? Can’t think of it. Crowds gathered there after high school football games in the 70’s.
April 8, 2008 at 5:55 am #621492
JanSParticipantJerald…there was a Shakey’s Pizza located where Taco Time is now…is that what you’re thinking of?
April 8, 2008 at 12:16 pm #621493
GinaParticipantI think Redline was a Pizza Pete, back before Roundtable.
April 8, 2008 at 12:52 pm #621494
JeraldParticipantYes, Pizza Pete! I never would have thought of it.
April 8, 2008 at 1:16 pm #621495
KayleighMemberWas it Shakey’s or Pizza Pete that had the window where you could watch the pizza being made in the kitchen?
But the coolest place for pizza in the 70s had to be Big Bob’s Pizza and Pipes in Burien. I think it was about where Bison Creek is now?
April 8, 2008 at 5:31 pm #621496
Spike1MemberHere’s a few for you.
The Meat Market/Fish Store that used to be next to Husky’s Deli. Meat on the left fish on the right, two distinct businesses in the same space. Usually smelled pretty funky.
Friar Tuck’s music store where the seafood store is now across from the post office. A few minor rock stars cycled through there!
Penny Lane Records (now Easy Street) I can’t remember the guy’s name that owned it but he had some great/weird/crazy halloween parties.
And the place that is now Pailin was Skipper’s Galley many years ago. Great food but you had to be there when the owner decided when to be open. He was a real maverick who opened or closed on a whim.
April 8, 2008 at 7:49 pm #621497
JanSParticipantGina…what would we do without yo – lol..Pizza Pete…yes, I remember that…
April 9, 2008 at 6:27 am #621498
miwsParticipantI remembered a few more in the Junction….
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Raff’s Shoe Store, Flair Cameraland, Fong Fong Restaurant, the small Montgomery Ward Store.
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Mike
April 9, 2008 at 7:05 am #621499
JanSParticipantMike…the Fong Fong…no one ever ate in there, and I always wondered what was going on in the back room, and how they stayed open…lol…
April 9, 2008 at 1:37 pm #621500
JeraldParticipantThere was a Chinese restaurant on the west side of California, somewhere between the Alaska and Admiral junctions. Called the Hi Hat, or something like that.
Oh, also, Maria’s Mexican restaurant at the Junction. I cut class with a friend once to have an enormous Mexican platter at 11 am.
April 9, 2008 at 2:07 pm #621501
miwsParticipantYeah, it was one of those places that would probably turn alot of people off if they poked their head in the door and saw how dreary the place looked. However, they had decent food at a great price. It was a husband and wife thing, he waited the tables, she cooked.
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Mike
April 9, 2008 at 2:48 pm #621502
GinaParticipantShakey’s had had the observation window for pizza. Shakey’s also ran silent movies at times.
The Penney’s store had the unofficial Junction restrooms.
April 9, 2008 at 3:43 pm #621503
KayleighMemberThanks, Gina….and everybody for evoking some great childhood memories.
April 9, 2008 at 11:50 pm #621504
RonMParticipantThe Hi-Hat was near Hinds St. on California. It was popular and very busy in the 50’s. You could eat in or take out. Nearby, across the street was a small neighborhood market. It was there for many years. During the war my mother would occasionally buy butter there with her ration stamps.
During the war there was an Army camp on the Hiawatha Playfield. Overflow from Ft. Lawton, solders staging to be shipped out.
There were a number of small neighborhood groceries scattered about. On the SE corner of Hinds and 40th Ave SW “George’s” serviced the area.
On 40th between Manning and Charleston, west side of the street, was “Garfield’s Candy”. Garfield was an immigrant who made exquisite chocolates and other candies. He drew a lot of business and was very popular. My mom sometimes helped him on the busy holidays. When he died he left the business to his housekeeper who kept the name and business going for a number of years after. The building is still there, though it’s now a private garage!
April 10, 2008 at 12:03 am #621505
RonMParticipantI attended Lafayette Elementary before the big earthquake, in the old 3 story brick building. Mrs. Quigly taught science and I recall her saying that one day all of the vacant lots on California would have houses and buildings from Admiral Way all the way to the Alaska St. Junction. We thought her quite mad for such a prediction!
April 10, 2008 at 3:49 am #621506
alkisunParticipantBefore the “Royal Fork” it was Karl’s shoes.
The building was originally built as a Safeway store. It was the third Safeway in the city and refered to as “the old number 3” when the new Admiral Way Safeway was completed. I think it may have also been an Ernst hardware store for a short time before the new Ernst (now Wells Fargo California Junction)
After the #3 was completed we saw the demise of the mom and pop corner grocery stores.
April 10, 2008 at 4:21 am #621507
miwsParticipantNote: My comment #62 was in response to Jan’s #60.
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I remember the Hi-Hat too, with it’s tableside jukebox players.
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And in the Hi-Hat neighborhood, in the space where Ovio was before their move to the Junction, (drawing a blank as to what’s there now) that space was split, and if you stood on the sidewalk facing it, on the right was Ray’s Barbershop, where I got my crewcuts, =:-) and on the left was a Cafe called Mary’s, if I recall.
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Mike
April 10, 2008 at 5:30 am #621508
RonMParticipantI don’t know about a Safeway #3, but when my folks moved into the city in 1935 the Safeway at the corner of California & Charlestown was the only Safeway we were aware of in WS. When they closed in the 40’s they moved to where I think Blockbuster is today. The neighborhood groceries co-existed quite happily for a lot of years. About the time TV began to be seen in neighborhoods they seemed to fade away. I don’t think it had anything to do with TV, but by the mid 50’s there were very few left. We were yet to experience the megamarkets we know so well today.
The first time I ever saw TV was at a Saturday afternoon matenee at the Admiral theater. There was one in the lobby and the lobby was packed, all ignoring the movie playing and watching a test pattern on a 7″ b/w TV screen!
April 10, 2008 at 5:58 am #621509
manuelwParticipantHere is a website with pictures of Safeway stores throughout the decades:
April 10, 2008 at 1:49 pm #621510
JeraldParticipantThe True Value hardware store used to be Hometown Hardware and was on the NE corner of California & 44th, where a bank is now (Wells Fargo?).
Across the street, where the parking lot/farmers market are, was the fire station.
At 49th & Dawson there was a tiny grocery store, Aske’s, where we used to buy penny candy. Occasionally we’d pony up 5 or 10 cents for a candy bar, but usually we’d go for quantity over quality.
I also remember stopping at the cornfield (now the new Ercolini Park) to buy corn right off the stalk from the very grumpy old farmer.
April 10, 2008 at 1:53 pm #621511
JeraldParticipantAnother thought about Aske’s grocery. I remember the owner was a white-haired old lady who seemed kind of creepy in the tiny dark store.
She couldn’t have been that old, I’ve come to realize. That was 40 years ago, and she’s still a white-haired old lady in the neighborhood! (And very nice, I know now)
April 10, 2008 at 2:56 pm #621512
RonMParticipantI vaguely remember the trolly that traversed California Ave from the Junction to Admiral, then down to Spokane and by tressel into downtown. It was replaced by the trackless trollies or electric buses. That became route 15, from the Alaska Junction through Admiral and into downtown (on 1st Ave) and on through Ballard through Wittier Heights and to Crown Hill. It was one of the longest uninterrupted transit routes and the fare was the same all along the way, no zones. We used transit coins in those days. You could purchase them from transit dispatchers who attended a number of bus stops in downtown, or from the drivers directly as you boarded.
Anyone remember tax tokens? They were coined by the state and were valued at 1/3 of a cent. They had a hole in the center and we strung them on strings to collect them when we were kids. During the war they were solid green and plastic.
April 18, 2008 at 1:50 am #621513
AdmiralJanewayParticipantI just read that Morton’s Drugs is going to be sold.(I hope they don’t change the name.) Someday we’ll reminisce that Morton’s was once locally owned.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/359488_mortonbrf18.html
April 18, 2008 at 7:54 am #621514
JanSParticipantAJ…it’s going to be a Pharmaca
here’s the website… http://www.pharmaca.com/
while it won’t be Mort, it may be interesting…I like their philosophy..
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