
- Seattle Cinerama
These signs were removed in September 2023, as the former Seattle Cinerama (closed for three years) was sold, becoming SIFF Cinema. SIFF (Seattle Independent Film Festival) were unable to use the Cinerama name due to a trademark. - Mothback Carpetsweeper
Araneus diadematus, cross orb weaver aka European garden spider. (Alternative species name contributed by "Strange Planet" creator Nathan W. Pyle) - blue birb
- Kitsap Lake Drive-in Theatre (relocated)
At the KR Trigger building, Seattle - Seattle Neon Book!
New book of my neon photos - over 450 of them. Buy it here: Seattle Neon on Kickstarter - 5th Avenue
5th Avenue Theatre and Rainier Tower, Seattle - After the Viaduct
Alaskan Way, December 2019, from the Pike Place Market parking garage - Trigger Building
Neon collection at the Trigger Building in Seattl - Taken from the Cleaners
Auditorium Cleaners operated from 1930 to 1991 in the Odd Fellows Lodge #86 building in Fremont, Seattle. When they closed the neon sign (stripped of its glass) was relocated from the front of the building to the alley behind. (Directions: just southeast of the Lenin Statue) - People's Storage
Fremont, Seattle. 1945. As of 2021 the storage facility is under new management and has changed its name. The sign is still present but dark. - West Seattle Brake Service
Family-owned since 1940, at same location since 1950. - Climate Pledge Arena
LED sign that mimics the look of neon. Installed January 2021 on the former Key Arena - Troy Laundry
Rooftop neon sign from the defunct Troy Laundry in Seattle. After Amazon bought the building, they gutted it and erected a skyscraper in the shell of the old brick laundry, which now provides a covered walkway leading to the entrances of the new building. The neon sign was relocated from the rooftop to hang inside. - you can always go (over) downtown
- Bradlee Distributors
- GH Black Caviar
GH BLACK CAVIAR (IMO: 9722053) is a Bulk Carrier that was built in 2016 and is sailing under the flag of Marshall Is. (source: marinetraffic.com) - Interbay
(sky colour was heavily manipulated) - Red Mill
Red Mill Burgers, Interbay, Seattle. Established 1998. Red Mill takes its name from an older Seattle restaurant, which operated between 1937 and 1967. The two sisters of the owner of the present Red Mill had worked at the original - and brought home food for the family - so the name was chosen as a tribute. - That's Some Ceiling
5th Avenue Theatre entryway, Seattle - Psychic Barber
Rick's Barber Shop - "Psychic Barber", 4845 California Ave SW, West Seattle. Originally located a few blocks south, Rick's Barber Shop was in a storefront next to a psychic. The psychic had a large neon sign reading "Psychic", with her phone number below, and when Rick added a neon sign of his own he matched the font, color, and size of his neighbor's. Side by side, in adjacent windows, they looked like "Psychic Barber" from the street. Eventually the psychic's business failed, and she simply stopped paying rent and abandoned everything in the shop. The landlord gave Rick the sign, and he relocated it (minus the phone number) above his own, so it now read "Psychic Barber" in a single window. It became a West Seattle landmark, with reporters always eager to retell the story or ask Rick for his forecast on major sporting events. Last year he moved to a new building. The window was too small for the original Psychic and Barber signs, so he mounted those on an inside wall instead, but got some new neon - red, white, and blue - for the window. Still in business, Rick's Barber Shop is temporarily closed due to the virus. There's a paper sign in the window apologizing that he didn't see this coming. - We Got This, Moon
- #WeGotThisSeattle
Seattle's Space Needle, closed to visitors since mid-march, added a flag reading "#WeGotThisSeattle", to bolster the city's spirit during the Covid-19 pandemic. The flag is tattered due to a sudden intense hail storm on the afternoon of March 31. - pac man cloud
- one orange evening
- The Pine Box (Beer Inside)
The Pine Box - a Capitol Hill bar located in an old mortuary - Rainier Tower From Not Very Far Away
- Abe's Barber Shop
Beacon Hill, Seattle - Just a tree
- University Seafood & Poultry
After 75 years, this University District fishmonger and butcher announced they will close, December 31 2019. - Ark Lodge Cinema
Ark Lodge #126, Columbia City, Seattle; John L. McCauley, 1921. The facade is neoclassical, with four Ionic pilasters. At the top of the pediment, here obscured by the tree, is a Masonic square and compass, still intact. Below it, the lettering reads "Ark Lodge 126 F.& A.M.", or "Free and Accepted Masons". Seattle architect John L. McCauley (1879-1957), himself a Freemason, designed and built this meeting space in 1920-21 for the Ark Lodge #126 chapter. The upper story served as the Masons' assembly space, while the ground floor provided income for the chapter as retail spaces. From 1921 until the 1940s, the ground floor was occupied by the Heater Glove Factory, which made leather gloves and helmets; Charles Lindbergh wore a Heater helmet on his transatlantic flight. The Masons continued to meet here until 2002, when they sold the building, and it was converted to a cinema. The marquee was added and the second-floor assembly hall became a 204-seat auditorium. After additional remodeling, the building now contains four theatres. arklodgecinemas.com/ - Interstate 5
- Araneus diadematus
Female European garden spider (cross orb weaver) in Seattle - Reed Wright
- Thinking of my father
- Buddha of the shop window
- coyote
- olympics
- over rainier
- moon viewing
- Leinenkugels
- Diller Hotel
- Hong Kong Bistro
- Keep Hope Alive
Graffiti tribute to local hip-hop master Soul One, who died March 2019. Painted March 2019, demolished August 2019. Warren Place, Belltown - Lighthouse of Warren Place
Lighthouse at the Felix Building, Warren Place, Seattle - Alki Spud
Alki Spud Fish & Chips, West Seattle. Brothers Jack and Frank Alger started selling fish and chips (ten cents for two pieces of ling cod and fries in a cardboard boat) out of their Alki Avenue garage in 1935, cutting a takeout window in the side of the building. During WWII, rationing made oil for frying difficult to obtain, and Spud nearly had to close, but neighbors banded together to donate their oil ration tickets, saving the fish and chip stand. After the war, Spud replaced the old garage with a modern building of a nautical design, including portholes. By 1961 they had replaced this with the current Googie-inspired building featuring an upswept roof. Spud has since expanded to other neighborhoods and cities around Seattle, but the Alki location is the original. - Settling in for the night
- Westside Barber Shop
- Washington for Warren
Senator Elizabeth Warren presidential campaign rally, Seattle Center, August 2019 - Western Pacific Chemical Company, 1940
1436 Elliott Ave W, Queen Anne, Seattle. Built in 1940 for the Western Pacific Chemical Company, this two-story concrete building was designed in the Art Deco and Art Moderne styles by John Ivar Mattson. Later, it housed several chemical manufacturers, and in the 1970s, Superior Embroidery and McNamara Signs. - Paramount
Paramount Theatre, Seattle, built by Paramount Pictures in 1928. Originally the Seattle Theatre, renamed the Paramount in 1930. This marquee and vertical neon sign are a 2009 replica of the original.