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This restaurant, one of many owned by the busy Walter Clark (1896-1990) was located within the conglomerated White-Henry-Stuart Building. Clark also had owned the famed Twin Tee-Pees Restaurant on Aurora Avenue and 51 other restaurants during his career that spanned the 1920s-1960s. According to Clark's biography by P.E. Tibbetts, the Salad Bowl, which opened on 04/20/1931, was originally conceived of as a tea room for women; Clark had already opened restaurants in Downtown Seattle that catered to a male audience. The Salad Bowl was his first full-service restaurant, with an eye on quality over quantity. (See P.E. Tibbetts, Mr. Restaurant, [Seattle: Murray Publishing Company, 1990], p. 54-56.)

The Salad Bowl moved to a new doubly-large location at 1319 5th Avenue, two doors south of its original spot in 1939.

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