Washington

The Kingdome was planned as far back as the late 60's as part of the effort to bring Major League Baseball to Seattle. In 1969, the Pilots came and went after one season, playing at old Sick's Stadium as plans for the dome stalled....

The Last Exit on Brooklyn was a coffeehouse established in 1967 pioneering Seattle's counter culture movement as well as the city's coffee culture. It moved from its original location in 1993 to The Ave and closed in 2000.

Frederick & Nelson??was a department store??chain based in Seattle. Founded in 1891 as a furniture store, it soon expanded into selling general merchandise. At its peak in the 1980s, it boasted 10 locations in Washington State and Oregon but closed in 1992.

KYAC was Seattle's soul station from 1965, when it first signed on, until 1981 when it became KKFX.

Tusko, build as "The World's Meanest Elephant," arrived in the U.S. from Thialand in 1898. After touring the country, his keepr George "Slim" Lewis, tried to get him into a circus but none wanted him. Tusko lived out his final years at the Seattle...

The historic Eagles Auditorium Building has stood at 1416 7th Avenue in Seattle since 1925. The building's colorful history has included everything from Grateful Dead concerts to a speech by Martin Luther King Jr.

Seattle's KRAB radio, 107.7 on the FM dial, was the fourth commercial-free, listener-supported radio station in the United States, debuting in December 1962. Finacial stresses led to the station leaving the air in 1984.

"All roads lead to the Dog House," the slogan went for Bob Murray's Dog House Restaurant. Located at the corner of 7th and Bell, it opened in the 1930s. It served its last meal in 1994.

The Diplomats joined the old North American Soccer League (NASL) in 1974 as an expansion team. Though successful on the field and at the gate, the team was never profitable. In 1980, the original team folded. That same year, the Detroit Express moved to...

Baby Doe's Matchless Mine was a theme restaurant popular in the 1970s and 1980s.??The chain was named for Elizabeth McCourt "Baby" Doe Tabor (1854???935), the young bride of Central City, Colorado mine owner Harvey Doe. It was founded by aviation collector David Tallichet Jr....

A sibling to the famous Filene's department store, Filene's Basement was a separate chain that featured??high-end goods and was known for its distinctive, low-technology automatic markdown system.??

This fictions coffee shop is supposedly located at 4th & Pike in downtown Seattle. It is frequented by local radio personalities and was very popular in the 90s.

Penny for your thoughts! Buy 12 CDs or tapes (or LPs), for a penny and buy just four more at "regular club prices." Not many did that last bit.

They'll be buzzin' around the bases and the ball park this spring! Cicadas are winged insects, known for the songs sung by most, but not all, males of the species. They are better known for their swarming behavior which occurs every 13 to 17...

ShowBiz Pizza Place??was a pizza restaurant and video game arcade chain??in the '80s and early '90s.??It was founded by Robert L. Brock, a Holiday Inn franchisee, who had ended his partnership with the owners of Chuck E. Cheese. In addition to pizza, ShowBiz featured...

The top horror host in the Baltimore/Washington area from 1973 to 1987. Being based in the nation's capital, the host frequently engaged in subtle political satire along with the standard horror host trappings.

Steeped in '70s, and a little '80s, nostalgia, the Have a Nice Day Cafe was a chain of restaurants that operated from the mid-90s to the early 2000s. At its peak, the chain had over 20 locations across the U.S.

A holdover from the 1962 World's Fair, Fun Forest ??was the place to go for thrill rides. It closed forever on January 2, 2011.

Nearly 10 million people attended the Century 21 Exposition, also known as the Seattle World's Fair which ran from April 21 to October 21, 1962. Many of the buildings from the exposition remain in use today as does the famous monorail and, of course,...

The Seattle Rainiers began in 1903 as the Seattle Indians. In 1938, beer magnate Emil Sick bought the team and renamed it after his Rainier brewery. He also built the team a new home, Sick's Stadium. In 1965 they became a farm team of...

Sick's Stadium, also known as Sick's Seattle Stadium and later as Sicks' Stadium, was a baseball stadium in Seattle, Washington. It was the longtime home of the Seattle Rainiers??of the Pacific Coast League and it hosted the Seattle Pilots??during their only major league season...

Sunset Bowl opened in 1957 in Ballard and soon became a local hotspot. Sunset It closed in 2008 and was demolished in 2010.

Ernst Home Centers was a chain of home improvement stores founded in 1893 in Seattle by brothers Charles and Fred Ernst. At its peak it boasted over 95 stores in nine states. It filed for bankruptcy in 1996 and was liquidated in 1997.

The building that housed the Off Ramp Cafe was built in 1908 and was home to a variety of shops until the 1950s when a successive string of muisc clubs occupied the space. In 1986 it began booking alternative rock acts as the Off...

The Chubby and Tubby variety store began in 1947 in a metal hut. It grew into a South Seattle institution but closed in 2003.

Cellophane Square was a famous record store in Seattle's University District that opened in the early 1970s. It closed in 2009.

The Guild 45th movie theater opened in 1919 as a Paramount Theatre for about seven years before the Downtown Paramount Theatre opened. A second screen was added to the Guild 45th in 1983, two doors down from the main theatre. In 2017, facing mounting...

Rain City Video was a small chain of video rental shops that started in 1988. Its last location, in West Ballard, closed in April of 2017.

Farrell's Ice Cream Parlour is an American ice cream parlor chain founded in Portland in 1963 by Bob Farrell and Ken McCarthy. The chain grew to 120 locations, but as of 2018 there were only 2 locations remaining, both in California.

The Seattle Metropolitans played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association from 1915 to 1924. In 1917 they became the first American team to win the Stanley Cup before that trophy became exclusively associated with the National Hockey League in 1926.