Lead guitarist Mike McCready is inching his BMW down an alley between Bell and Blanchard streets in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, looking for the portal through which the members of Pearl Jam first passed — before the arenas and stadiums, the fancy hotels, the private planes.
Not many buildings have a pretty backside, but this one is particularly homely. You can barely make out the door under the scars and scrawls of graffiti.
"There!" McCready says. "It was a metal foundry. Galleria Potato Head. And from there, we'd go to Mama's (Mexican Kitchen) and get burritos."
I believe it was underneath what is now the Roq La Rue gallery in Belltown. http://www.roqlarue.com/
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It was torn down its the empty lot next to that gallery. Mamas mexican is right there across the street.
2312 2nd Ave Seattle the alley is there the building is gone.
Let's see those 2013 dates in the southern states.
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Lead guitarist Mike McCready is inching his BMW down an alley between Bell and Blanchard streets in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood, looking for the portal through which the members of Pearl Jam first passed — before the arenas and stadiums, the fancy hotels, the private planes.
Not many buildings have a pretty backside, but this one is particularly homely. You can barely make out the door under the scars and scrawls of graffiti.
"There!" McCready says. "It was a metal foundry. Galleria Potato Head. And from there, we'd go to Mama's (Mexican Kitchen) and get burritos."
2000: 8/15, 8/18, 10/9, 10/11, 10/12
2003: 6/18, 6/21, 6/22
2005: 9/9, 9/28
2006: 5/16, 5/17, 6/26, 6/27
2007: 8/5
2009: 8/23, 8/24
2010: 5/3, 5/4, 5/21
2011: 9/3, 9/4, 9/11, 9/12
2013: 7/19, 11/16
2014: 10/3, 10/9, 10/12, 10/17
2016: 4/16, 8/20, 8/22
2018: 8/18, 8/20, 9/2
2022: 9/18
2023: 8/31, 9/2, 9/5
2024: 5/18, 6/29
Hope the link works its a brief history of the gallery.
2312 2nd Ave Seattle the alley is there the building is gone.
that's an alley off 2nd between Bell and Blanchard
that would be my guess, given the style of graffiti