![He probably didn't create it here, but it's been reported that Sanders worked at a restaurant on Aurora Avenue North. According to KFC, Sanders developed the secret recipe in the 1930s when he operated the Sanders Court and Cafe restaurant and motel in Corbin, Kentucky. But in a biography of Sanders, his second wife recalled the two of them and another young woman driving to Seattle in fall 1942 for jobs at a Clarks Restaurant, which were big here at the time. He'd met namesake Walter Clark in Chicago at a convention of the National Restaurant Association. Local legend says that Sanders worked on his chicken recipe at the Twin Teepees across form Green Lake, which was a Clark's restaurant. But it appears he already had the recipe developed and was only lured there for the promise of a job in Seattle's booming wartime economy.]()
Famed Seattle spots: What they once were and what's there todayBy Callie Craighead and Zosha Millman
- 50 years on: D.B. Cooper remains a fascinating PNW mystery
![FBI sketches of D.B. Cooper. (FBI photo/provided by seattlepi.com file)]()
- 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.]()
- The P-I's role in the kidnapping case of George Weyerhaeuser
![The headline of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on May 25, 1935, the day after George Weyerhaeuser was kidnapped.]()
- 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.]()
History of the Seattle P-I
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Today marks 50 years since D.B. Cooper leapt from a Boeing 727's rear stair door with $200,000...
![FBI sketches of D.B. Cooper. (FBI photo/provided by seattlepi.com file)]()
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Believe it or not, Seattle has a long and rich history with professional and semi-professional...
![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.]()
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A look back on famed, historic Seattle eateries and bars that have since departed.
![Tini Bigs bar at the corner of Denny Way and 1st Avenue, Sunday, Oct. 30, 2016.]()
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An iconic Seattle landmark is turning 114 years old today.
![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.]()
