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My grandfather (left) owned and operated “Cliff Tooley’s City Hall Meat Market” for 50 years. It was located where the SeaFirst building now stands. Here is a photo from the 1947 reopening celebration. My dad is behind the counter.
The picture of the sword was published in the Seattle Times. The article Featured my dad returning to work after WW2. The Japanese sword was sort of a gag that the photographer didn’t know about.
Tom Howell
Via E-Mail
8/8/2009
My grandfather (left) owned and operated “Cliff Tooley’s City Hall Meat Market” for 50 years. It was located where the SeaFirst building now stands. Here is a photo from the 1947 reopening celebration. My dad is behind the counter.
The picture of the sword was published in the Seattle Times. The article Featured my dad returning to work after WW2. The Japanese sword was sort of a gag that the photographer didn’t know about.
Tom Howell
Via E-Mail
8/8/2009
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| Cliff Tooley’s City Hall Meat Market, Seattle, Washington. Circa 1947. Photo courtesy Tom Howell. |
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| Cliff Tooley’s City Hall Meat Market, Seattle, Washington. Circa 1947. Photo courtesy Tom Howell. |
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| Cliff Tooley’s City Hall Meat Market, Seattle, Washington. Circa 1947. Photo courtesy Tom Howell. |
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| Cliff Tooley’s City Hall Meat Market, Seattle, Washington. Circa 1947. Photo courtesy Tom Howell. |
Picture #3 is tongue in cheek, no? I mean, butchers don’t typically address a side of beef with a Samurai sword, right?
Oh, oops. I guess reading the enTIRE entry would be the thing, wouldn’t it?
If Mr. Tooley’s shop stood where the Seafirst Tower is, it must have been in the building that stood on the SW corner of 4th and Spring. However, I can’t find any info on that building for love nor money. It was built no earlier than 1911, and if was built before 1920 it stood next to the Lincoln Hotel and survived the fire that destroyed the hotel. In any case it was there in 1951 when the Second Seattle Public Library was built across Fourth Ave, just four years after these photos were taken. At that time, the rest of the block was a parking lot, and I assume that it had been a parking lot ever since the Lincoln fire. Someone else may know more?
Matt tj, that would be the 8-story Elks Temple, built in 1913. In 1950, it was the only building on the block over 2 storys.
http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/curtis&CISOPTR=94&CISOBOX=1&REC=13
Colin, that’s the one. Thanks for the link. Odd, I scoured the same archives and didn’t see that great photo. I think that that must be the building this meat market was in, no?
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