Sorry, I just noticed your reply was almost a year ago.

You are correct, though. It was the Flame.

Appreciate your help!

Harry

Anyone with a better memory than me? (I used to live up the hill from there.)

Thanks,
Harry

In contradiction to the above, I remember the Cascade Room at Southcenter and Downtown and the Legend Room at Northgate. This obit confirms this: http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19980815&slug=2766618

And here’s a link to some of the menus from the local department store restaurants, as well as others, including F&N’s Men’s Grill. I also think F&N’s restaurant–at least the one we went to downtown that required us to “behave,” was the Garden Room.

F & N sold to Marshal Field for 6 million dollars in 1929… The NAME Frango were invented at Frederick and Nelson’s, although controversy still exsists over who actually owns and invented the chocolate mint.. When F & N added the top 5 floors in 1952 to their building, along with the beauty salon, post office, movie picture auditorium, a fully equipped medical facility and a nursery, on the tenth floor, the company built a modern candy kitchen that could turn out more than 500,000 pounds of Frango chocolate a year.

Frangos became available in Chicago. Marshel Field AND F & N made them a signiture part of the experience.

9/11 1992 signaled the end of F&N Frangos when what remained of F & N after multiple buy outs and sell outs disclosed in Bankrupcy Court that FRANGOS would now be sold to the BON, which ended up becoming Macy’s. At the Time Marshal Fields, was still head to head with Macy’s in Chicago. They appealed, but lost, and in time, they too, were sold to Macy’s.

I still cannot get over seeing Frango’s at the Bon…

http://www.seattlepi.com/archives/1992/9209110066.asp

I recall the tea room at Fredrick & Nelson’s was called the Rhodadendron Room…but that may have been just the one at Bellevue Square..

I used to travel a lot for work, and it was really cool to see the Foleys, Famous-Barr, Liberty House, I Magnin, Burdines, Wanamakers, Lazarus, Rich’s, Bullock’s, Filene’s, etc.etc. all over the different parts of the country.

It’s odd that the mega corp Federated Department Stores that has re-branded itself Macy’s actually grew out of the midwest Cincinnati-based Lazarus chain, that acquired Macy’s along the way, and not vice versa.

When Federated/Lazarus decided to nationally re-brand, they just chose, of all the brands they had in their fold, Macy’s, as “Macy’s” they felt had the most national exposure and cache thanks to the Thanksgiving Day parade and “Miracle on 34th Street”.

Now it’s Macy’s as far as the eye can see…..

Of all the lost names, I think losing I Magnin in New York, and Filene’s in Boston are the saddest.