The Summit Bar was started in 1906 at 1605-09 1st Ave. and was listed as such until 1909 when its name changed to the Summit Liquor Co. The company, according to a 1910 calendar plate was located at 1548 1st Ave. for only that one year. It was next located at 1603 1st Ave until closing due to Prohibition in 1915. Not much else is known about this company while in business, however in June 1910, C. T. Robinson, a salesperson of the Summit Liquor Company was arrested while treating residents of Green Lake to free samples of whiskey. After prohibition, an article in the July 2, 1916 edition of the Sunday Seattle Times stated: "Summit Liquor Company on First Avenue, in York Hotel Building, was now occupied by A. H. Cratte & Co., hardware dealers".
The Silver Grill Cellars in Tacoma opened in 1906 and was located next to the Donnelly Hotel at S 9th and Commerce. By 1910 it was located at 716 Pacific Avenue. The business included a restaurant as well as a wholesale and family (retail) outlet. Not much is know about the North Yakima operation other than it appeared much later.
The Jaffe business interests in the wholesale and retail liquor industry of early Seattle encompassed several companies including the Imperial Liquor Company. This company was started by Joseph L. Jaffe in 1908 and lasted until Prohibition in 1915. It was a saloon and combination family liquor store that also dealt in the wholesale business. Joseph C. Barman was secretary treasurer and manager of the company having taken over for M. Nelson in 1912. The business outlets for this company were located at 305-307 & 311 Pike and 818 First Avenue and the firm used the brand name "King's Crown" in various local newspaper and billboard ads throughout the city. The saloon store that was in combination with the liquor store at 311 Pike was known as the College Buffet. Louis Ruiz operated the store on First Avenue in 1911 until its closing in 1913 which then became the Los Angeles Wine Co. operated by I. Rosenthal from 1913-1914.
Rodger D. Levy and Emil Ofner started the Everett Liquor Company sometime in 1902 and it was located at 1903 Hewett Avenue in Everett. This area of town was known as the saloon district which at the time had 26 different saloons on Hewett Avenue alone. Levy and Ofner were one of the few business doing both a wholesale and retail wine and liquor business and by 1904 were giving out Green Stamps with every purchase. Levy bought out Ofner in 1905 and continued at the same location until the city temporarily shut down all saloons in 1911. They reopened on January 1, 1913 when Everett voters repealed the "Local Option Dry Law" and the business was then located at 1403 Hewett Avenue and under the management of Fred G. Brown. The company lasted until state-wide Prohibition in 1915.
Designed by the famous New York architect Stanford White at 913 A Street, the Hotel Tacoma opened in 1884 one year after the transcontinental Northern Pacific Railroad first reached Tacoma, its Puget Sound terminus. From its perch on A Street, the hotel over-looked Commencement Bay and its tideflats and further to Mt. Tacoma (now Mt Rainier). With many additions and much polishing the Tacoma Hotel kept its place until 1935 when after 51 years of hosting guests it was destroyed by fire in 1935.
"The Tacoma" was the bar operated in the Hotel Tacoma and had a mermaid as its logo on its shot glass, brandy flask and other advertising items.
After immigrating to the United States from Norway in 1885, Alexander Brenden arrived in Tacoma in 1892. By 1893, Brenden had opened the New Aetna Saloon at 1118 South C. Street. and lived downtown at E. and 15th Streets. In 1896, Brenden and Edward Hansen were running the saloon and living next door at the Occidental Hotel at 1116 S. C Street. By 1900, Brenden had expanded his activities, opening the Aetna Hotel at 1112 S. C Street, again in partnership with Edward Hansen. By 1910, Brenden's downtown hotel holdings had expanded to include the Brenden Hotel and Cafe at the southwest corner of S. 13th and C Streets, the Fisher Hotel at 1330 Pacific Avenue, and the Aetna Liquor Company at 1329 Commerce Street. By 1915, Brenden had consolidated these businesses into the Brenden Bar, Brenden Hotel, and Brenden Cafe at the SW Corner of Broadway and 13th. Brenden's livelihood undoubtedly hinged on the profitable sales of liquor through his liquor company and bar. The arrival of prohibition in January 1916 most certainly took its toll on Brenden's business. Within a year, Brenden was selling soft drinks, confections, cigars and tobacco in a store in the basement of the Brenden Hotel.
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