- Seattle's hockey history is richer than you think
![1917: Metropolitans win Stanley Cup Seattle won its first major national championship nearly 100 years ago, when the Metropolitans of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association became the first American pro-hockey team to win the Stanley Cup. The Mets returned to the Stanley Cup finals in 1919 (that team is pictured above), but a flu epidemic halted the tournament. In 1920, the Mets returned again but lost the Stanley Cup finals to the Ottawa Senators.]()
- 24 of Seattle's quirkiest landmarks and where to find them
![Waiting For The Interurban statue in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood.]()
- Dive into Seattle restaurant history starting from the beginning
![Henry Yesler's sawmill and commercial buildings at Front Street (now First Avenue) and James Street in the 1870s. The mill provided Seattle's first salaried jobs.]()
- West Seattle's historic Stone Cottage set to roll to new location
![Exterior of West Seattle's historic stone cottage.]()
- 22 iconic Seattle bars, restaurants that are no longer around
![Tini Bigs bar at the corner of Denny Way and 1st Avenue, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016.]()
- Today in history: Pike Place Market opens for business in 1907
![Seattle opened its public market at Pike Place in 1907 so that farmers could sell fresh eggs, dairy products, produce, and other things directly to city dwellers. The Corner Market was built in 1912 across the street at the corner of First Avenue and Pike Place.]()
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![Employees and co-founders pose for a photo at the beginning of the chain's lifetime.]()
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![In a post card from 1932, The Lockspot Cafe reveals its original digs. Keep clicking for more photos of Ballard then and now.]()
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![Christopher of the Wolves (CQ), who calls Port Townsend home, plays original acoustic trance music during the Northwest Folklife Festival at the Seattle Center on Saturday, May 24, 2008. (Seattle Post-Intelligencer/Dan DeLong)]()
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![What South Lake Union might have looked like had voters approved Seattle Commons. Instead, they killed it twice, the last time in 1996. (Image is from 1995).]()
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![The front page of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer from March 28, 1980.]()
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![WSDOT's caption: Just north of the main entrance to the fallout shelter is what appears to be a gated-off culvert. In actuality, it's the exit to the emergency tunnel.]()
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![The Monorail and Space Needle were not the only big attractions during Seattle's 1962 World’s Fair -- how about nudity and dancing women along Century 21’s Show Street? The nightclub-style revues included Girls of the Galaxy, featuring models posing in revealing space-age costumes, and Gracie Hansen’s Paradise International Club, which provided Las Vegas-style entertainment with showgirls. (MOHAI photo.)]()
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![This photo has previously been credited as the first building of the newspaper under the Seattle Post-Intelligencer masthead, photographed in 1881. But that may not be quite accurate. Other information would suggest that this was in fact the temporary office of the P-I after the Great Fire of 1889 burned the Post Building (108 Yesler Way) more or less to the ground.]()
