Exhibits
Curated stories that bring people, books, photographs, and documents together.
2 exhibits
- Founding Years1939–2003
Rose's Highway Inn
The Highway 99 chicken house, 1939–2003
Rose Wilcox sold sandwiches to lawyers, so the lawyers bought her a restaurant. It stood on Highway 99 for sixty-four years and it sold chicken. The story of Rose's Highway Inn, told from the scrapbook its last chef kept.
- Building the Association1943–1972
The Edison Kitchen
Paul Muellet, Hubert Eickman, Darrell Anderson: how one Seattle classroom trained a generation
Paul Muellet brought Hubert Eickman onto the staff of Edison Technical School in the middle of the war; Eickman took the department over when Muellet died in 1956 and ran it until a stroke stopped him in 1971. One of his students was Darrell Anderson, who assembled the archive this site is built from.