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Overview

This venerable tavern began operation in 1892, but became an center for Seattle cultural and political life in the 1970s, after it was frequented by Mayor Wes Uhlman and his aides.

Building History

James Marshall "Jamie" Anderson III (1943-2023), Robert Foster and Richard Hazelton purchased the Central Tavern in 1970. Anderson, who studied journalism at the the University of Missouri, Columbia, relocated to the Pacific NW in 1966 to work for the Boeing Company. Anderson's Seattle Times obituary stated in 2023: "In 1970, along with Bob Foster and Rich Hazelton, Jamie bought the Central Tavern, one of the earliest businesses in the renaissance of Pioneer Square. In 1972, Tyler Caruso and Spencer O'Grady took over operation of the kitchen at The Central as it became the gathering place for a new generation of artists, professionals, politicians, merchants, young lawyers and future judges. It was a place where, in the mid-'70s, Mayor Ullman [sic] and his staff would meet to plan the city's future. It was where Pioneer Square's Fat Tuesday celebration was born. After selling The Central in 1978, Jamie worked at Metro and later for Coastal Environmental with its founder Dan Munro." (See "James Marshal Anderson III," Seattle Times, 06/09/2023, p. A16.)

PCAD id: 13251