Comments on: The Old ‘Vue

By: Amy

Amy — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:41:19 +0000

I found this page while searching “Arthur’s Bakery”. As a four-year-old in the early 70s, I took swimming lessons at the neighboring swim club (was it called the Olympic swimming pool?). I can still smell the chlorine and feel the muggy warmth of its greenhouse atmosphere, ivy climbing up the cement walls.

After each swim lesson, my mom took me to Arthur’s for a treat. I chose their iced, yellow & black smiley face cookie every time. As a four-year-old, I thought that cookie was nearly the size of my head!

Later, in my growing up years, I’d find an Arthur’s smiley face cookie on my bed after a hard day at school, a breakup with a boyfriend, a particularly torturous piano lesson, and on occasional birthdays and holidays – each cookie compliments of my fun and loving mom.

Does anyone else remember those cookies?

Also, does anyone know when and why Arthur’s closed?

Thanks for reading my lengthy post!

By: Helene

Helene — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:52:59 +0000

The three adjacent shops were Arthur’s Bakery, Bud’s Meats, and Mike’s Produce. All mouth-wateringly memorable.

There was a fish market, earlier, in the row along 104th south of N.E. 8th, but I can’t remember the name. Kingen’s (later the Carousel) drive-in stood out by itself, but the row of shops included the laundry, the fish market, the delicatessan, Welch’s Drugs, the Lakeside Super Market, Larkin’s 10c store [later Wilner's department store, later a ski shop], and then a travel agent, then a jeweler.

Earlier, on Main Street in Old Bellevue, there was the Dainty Maid Bakery, that made pizzas you took home to bake.

Does anyone remember how the public library moved around to diffeent places? In the basement on Main Street under the bank building, then to the old school house on 100th that was later the Boys & Girls club, then up Main Street to the old Catholic church building.

But all this makes your head spin–I once agreed to meet someone “where the Bleu Dolphin used to be”–and then we couldn[‘t agree on where the Bleu Dolphin used to be….

Umm, “Go, Totems!”

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By: Donna

Donna — Fri, 06 May 2011 17:45:47 +0000

Patti,
I have been thinking about Arthur’s Egyptian Cake for days now and, like you, would love to find a bakery that makes one or get the recipe.
It was such a wonderful cake and we had it for all special occasions. I even had Arthur’s make it into a sheet cake for my Mother’s 65th birthday party. That recipe has to be out there somewhere! The staff from the bakery was great to deal with and perhaps one of them or one of Arthur’s family managed to save “the recipe”.

By: Patti

Patti — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:17:18 +0000

To Kevin… the meat market was Fisher Meats, but I can’t remember the fish market.

By: Patti

Patti — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 18:15:52 +0000

Does anybody remember the Egyptian Cake from Arthur’s Bakery? It had marzapan on the bottom… oh, it was so good and it was my Mom’s favorite. She will turning 82 on Friday and would love to try and either find one or make one. I wonder if anyone knows relatives that might have recepies.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:48:16 +0000

Does anyone remember the name of the old fish market in Bellevue? It used to be next to Arthurs Bakery and I think a butcher.

By: Janice

Janice — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 05:17:49 +0000

I grew up in Bellevue. house was near VueCrest? The Downy family owned most the land back then… Sacred Heart had a huge cross you could see from anywhere, dairy queen was a great place, john danz was the place to be, Farells… Bellevue Square had Fredrick and Nelson, Nordstrom Best, JC Penny (with an escalator), Bell Book and Candle is where you got tickets to shows (before *ticketmaster*)… etc etc

By: Steve Means

Steve Means — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:05:53 +0000

Oops, Meta Burroughs had the drug store with soda fountain on Main Street. Our other neighbors, the Mayrands had a similar establishment on the Seattle side of Lake Washington. Bellevue Elementary was first known as Overlake Elementary and later became admin offices. Vet Dr. Duey had his offices just behind the grade school separated by some great old black cherry trees.

By: Steve Means

Steve Means — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:36:18 +0000

BHS 1961 here, began in Kindergarten 1948 Mrs. Johnson NW corner room of Bellevue Elementary which is low brick building behind the Bellevue Junior High campus visible above the running track. In 1948 my Dad taught alongside Frank Odle in the taller brick building which was titled Union High, but by then was Bellevue High School. I began my teaching career in Frank and Dad’s basement corner room in 1971, then to Totems when BJHS became today’s park.
The postcard views over Pickle Point (where some may have used the rope swing, at night even nakedly, smile) then over Meydenbauer Yacht Club. In 1948 the road from home, Killarney Way, led into this area from the lower left, crossed a failing wooden bridge then up to Main Street, past the bakery to Mayrand’s where we paid a nickel for a green river.
Wikipedia has a 1902 view quite similar to this one.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/MeydenbauerBay1902.jpg