Where dozens of live music venues occupied the downtown corridor.
This collection of stories is about magazines like The Rocket and City Heat. The semi-fictitious chapters dive into the Pacific Northwest’s diverse arts and entertainment community, where LGBTQ+ heroes coexist with composites of infamous punks and poets of the ‘80s and ‘90s. But it wasn’t always peace, love, and mosh pits.
Violet Wander bartends in a notorious Seattle grunge music dive, and writes for The Rocket magazine.
The numbered sites are locations from chapters in Pink Umbrellas. The black stars are sites of past live music venues like the Paramount theatre, Oz, Scootchies, Gorilla Gardens, The OK Hotel Cafe, Larry’s Greenfront, the Gibson House, the original Crocodile Cafe on Second Avenue, and the Trade Winds on First Avenue and Wall Street, where the next gen Croc landed.
There were dozens more live music clubs and theaters on Capitol Hill, the U-district, and Tacoma.
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