Seattle grunge scene

The original Mother Love Bone mural in Seattle, WA

Easy Street Records, Seattle

Discover the history of grunge and how Seattle became the flannel and music capital of the ’90s.

Here are 25 places where Seattle grunge icons worked, ate, played, lived, and died. This list also includes parks and other places that inspired the music.

Nirvana

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Originally built in 1929, the Golden Bear on Pacific Coast Highway began as an elegant Greek restaurant patronized by many Hollywood stars in the 1930’s. There were two Golden Bears people remember in Huntington Beach. The first began at 226 Main St. as a cafe in 1922 run by chef Harry Bakre. He called his little cafe the Golden Lion, after one in San Diego that he had worked as a chef. But because there was another cafe by that name in Orange County, he changed the name to the Golden Bear…

Classics. A piece of work judged over time to be definitive. And what is it but a “Charles Peterson photo” that comes to mind when you think of the grunge scene, or maybe even the nineties altogether? These are my legacy photos, the icons, the perfect outcome of the vision I was trying to bring to the world, no matter how small the subject seemed to begin with. I was an art student, so I leaned into it with that critical eye, no matter how sloppy it all seemed at the time. I always aimed…

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seattle, WA

Grunge (sometimes referred to as the Seattle sound) is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged during the mid-1980s in the American state of Washington, particularly in Seattle.

Singles

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Downtown Seattle ‘80s

It's always good to take a moment and take a look at our chilhood icons through adult eyes. OK, maybe 'good' isn't the word for it ...

MTV Unplugged, 1996 - Alice In Chains - 69 photos

The UW's ENVIR 480: Sustainability Studio class in the Program on the Environment presents students with a sustainability topic which they engage in as part of an experiential learning course. The topics change each quarter - this spring, the students researched the UW's environmental history. This is part of a series of posts by the students on some of the information they uncovered. Gas Works Park, originally known as Brown's Point, was not always a gathering place for UW students and the…

I do want a grunger.