Pop Culture

Sunday was last full day in Seattle.  Cloudy all day but dry.  Lunch was at the third of three seafood icons in Seattle: Ivar’s Acres of Clams.  We split great coconut shrimp with a stunning lime cilantro dipping source.  We both had fish and chips, mine with halibut.  Elaine drank marionberry cider and I had Old Seattle Lager.

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From the Table Window

From the Table Window

Da Drinks

Ivar’s

Seattle Over the Years

Outside Ivar’s

There is an interesting story about Ivar’s.  Back in the 1954 Seattle supposedly toyed with the idea of submarine passenger transportation options around Seattle.  Ivar’s immediately jumped on the bandwagon and hired a company to install underwater billboards that the submarine passengers (and divers) would see.  The plan for submarines never came to be.  In 2009 Ivar’s hired divers to try to recover the signs.  They found one and raised it to the surface.  It was great publicity  Great story, huh?  It was all reported in the newspapers as fact.

Alas, two months or so later it was exposed as a publicity hoax.  Story here.

We had only one destination today, the Museum of Pop Culture, better known here as MoPOP.  Big emphasis on Seattle music with a special exposition on Marvel Superheros.  All the memorabilia and costumes are authentic.  Pictures:

Everything Pearl Jam

Everything Nirvana

Drawing by Kurt Cobain

Everything Jimi Henrdicks

Everything Marvel Superhero

Science Fiction and Horror

Miscellaneous Pop Culture

Tomorrow morning we head back to Depoe Bay for our last week.  No post on Monday since it’s a travel day.  See you Tuesday.