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Founded in 1972 by Christine and Barry Bloch, Bloch's Restaurants Inc. operated four Bloch's Café's locations at various times. They were "known for counter service and prime-rib sandwiches at lunch and table service at night." The Bloch's Cafés...
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Started in 1955 by Andy Nagy, this iconic Seattle diner was housed in a series of old railroad cars, one of which Franklin D. Roosevelt rode during his 1944 re-election campaign. Under new owners since 2000, it has since closed down, having served...
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"The Canterbury is a reincarnation of the Gaslight, a tavern that slid downhill through the turbulent 1960's. Peggy Clark bought it in November of 1976 and began its transformation into a latter day Tudor hash house." -From The Seattle Times review...
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Part of the Clark's restaurant chain, founded by Walter Clark, with 22 restaurants all across Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and Yakima. Opened in the early 1950's. Clark sold the chain to Campbell Soup Company in 1970. The family eventually bought back...
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The restaurant inside the Georgian Towers Hotel. From the Strolling Around section of the April 21, 1968 issue of the Seattle Times: "Music piped into elevators of the Georgian Towers Hotel in Vancouver, B.C. evidently has created unexpected...
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Started in 1955 by Andy Nagy, this iconic Seattle diner was housed in a series of old railroad cars, one of which Franklin D. Roosevelt rode during his 1944 re-election campaign. Under new owners since 2000, it has since closed down, having served...
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Big Boy is a restaurant chain that was started in 1936 by Bob Wian and Arnold Peterson in Glendale, California. After changing hands a few times, it is now co-owned by Frisch's Restaurants and Robert Liggett, Jr. who renamed it Big Boy Restaurants...
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"Billed as an innovative new French cafeteria," when it opened in 1983, Café Casino had two locations, one in Seattle and one in Bellevue. It was a leading restaurant chain in France that started as a grocery store in 1858. Casino USA closed the...
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Built in 1907, the Captain Whidbey Inn is a lodge in the middle of Ebey's Landing Historic Reserve on Whidbey Island. It has been in John Colby Stone's family for over 40 years.
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Built in 1936 by Slim Randles, a Seattle carpenter, and owned by Mar Dong, also the owner of Mar Hotel in the International District, the China Pheasant was known to be a "real swinging roadhouse." In addition to dinner, the restaurant had music by...