Unless you’re gluten intolerant, there’s one thing I think we can all agree on: pancakes are delicious.
Perhaps we can also agree on the deliciously awesome and super campy style of the former Power’ s Pancake Palace
on Aurora.
Though the structure was bulldozed in 2001 after a conflagration, it had served Seattle since 1937 as the Twin T-Ps. You can see it on
this 30′s/40′s era card we posted a year ago.
HistoryLink has a
more in depth writeup here. We’ve lost a lot of interesting buildings in Seattle over the years, but they can never take away our pancakes. Click for higher res.
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| Power’s Pancake Palace. 7201 Aurora Ave. No. on U.S. 99, Seattle, Washington. This popular Teepee shaped restaurant on the shores of beautiful Green Lake is located only a few minutes from the World’s Fair. Long a Seattle landmark serving Pancakes and Waffles in amazing variety. Open daily 6 A.M. to 9 P.M. Color photo by Max R. Jensen. |
Duet Design seems to have been quite the rage… Twin Teepees… and then there was the twin humps that made up the Igloo…
http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=pf_output.cfm&file_id=1162
This picture makes me wicked happy sirs. Thank ya.
Palatial Tee-Pees? Oddly incongruous. It was actually quite cramped inside. I think of that place every time I approach that bend in Aurora. Funny how the yet another, ugly, road encroaching residential box (People Palace) currently being built there echoes the original orange with its exposed sheathing.
I would eat there every day if it was still around. and I’d get a different pancake or waffle every time because of their “amazing variety.”
I picked up this post card I think in the early 90´s:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/90342017@N00/2371727550/in/set-72157604298799292/
Husky Burger? Boeing Bomber? I wanna go to the Igloo! Thanks for posting that Seattle Greg!
There’s nothing like a palace that says they serve pancakes.
Igloo fans, check out a couple of Paul Dorpat’s recent posts: fantastic scans of the menu, which I’d never seen and would love to get my hands on: http://pauldorpat.com/?p=4205
…and some photos, including my carhop grandma.
http://pauldorpat.com/?p=4164
I have a 60s-era Twin Teepees menu I can scan and pass on, if anybody wants.
When I lived just south of Twin Teepees in the 70′s, it was a bit of breakfast heaven, with the Teepees, Skippy’s Cafe, and of course, Beth’s, where I asked the owner how many eggs in an omelet, & he said “Only three, and some baking soda”. I was as bummed to see the Teepees gone as I was when the Jolly Roger was torched.
I used to live in an apartment just north of there. It had a view over the top of the twin teepees.
One night I noticed what looked like smoke rising from the teepees. I shrugged it off, convincing myself it was just smoke from their kitchen. They were chimneys, right?
The next morning I awoke to find only the smoldering remains of the restaurant. I have no idea if I could’ve made a difference, but I’ve never forgiven myself for not at least calling it in.