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Overview

According to an advertisement in the Seattle Times of 11/26/1959, Spud Fish and Chips had opened its second outlet at 6850 East Green Lake Way, complementing the original location at 2666 Alki Avenue in Seattle. (See "At Last! You Can Get Your Favorite Spud Fish and chips at Green Lake, advertisement," Seattle Times, 11/26/1959, p. 86.)

Building History

Spud, a fastfood eatery featuring fish and chips, has long been a fixture in the Seattle, WA's Green Lake neighborhood. (An earlier building stood at Green Lake by 1940.) The Spud chain, founded by Jack Alger, remained in 2007 one of the oldest fish and chips restaurants in the area, predating the Ivar's seafood chain by three years. It once had outlets in Seattle's Alki neighborhhod (begun in 1935) and Puyallup, WA. Alger died c. 2000 and sold all the locations; a long-time employee, Pam Cordova, and her brother, Tim, purchased the Green Lake restaurant in 07/2001. Its architecture is one of the finest examples of 1950s-1960s googie restaurant design, (along with the Ballard Denny's), in Seattle, WA, c. 2007.

Building Notes

Tel: 206.524.0565 (2007).

Demolition

During Seattle's demolition frenzy of the mid-2010s, Spud Fish and Chips was set to be razed to enable the construction of more rental apartments near Green Lake.

PCAD id: 10276