The Golden Pheasant served Chinese food to Seattle for 45 years starting in 1929; now its iconic sign is immortalized in a new book.
When visitors walked into the Vanishing Seattle exhibit last year in the RailSpur building, curator and Vanishing Seattle founder Cynthia Brothers could see their physical reactions to the signs from bygone businesses. “There was something very visceral and emotional I witnessed,” says Brothers. The signs from restaurants, and bars, particularly, touched visitors. “A lot of these places were more like community centers in some ways.”
Brothers began documenting businesses closing and buildings being torn down around the city on the Vanishing Seattle website
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