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Run by benevolent saloonkeepers Joseph Bacher and Louis Grimminger during the first decade of the twentieth century, Our House Saloon operated at Occidental Avenue and Washington Street, gaining fame as a bank of sorts for visiting workingmen. As a public service, Bacher and Grimminger maintained a wall of safe deposit boxes in their bar, places were loggers, miners and fisherman could drop some of their wages before beginning to drink. This enabled patrons to stagger home with some cash in their pockets. According to the Polk's Seattle City Directory of 1901, both Bacher and Grimminger roomed at the same place, 608 3rd Avenue.

PCAD id: 18402