1950s Restaurant Sign from Seattle's Bagdad Cafe
[Seattle]: 1955. Color Painted on Wood. Vintage sign with frame measuring 26 x 55 inches; exposed interior image measures 24 x 53 inches. Polychromatic on one side only with original frame, Image depicts a stereotypical Middle Eastern assassin brandishing a sabre while emerging from a ceramic vase. Wear typical of weathering, with some dry-rot to frame that has been treated with a sealant. Good+. Item #5443 Sign was bought from a Seattle restaurateur, who himself bought it at the restaurant's liquidation auction.
A fun artifact from Seattle's culinary history. The Bagdad Cafe was located on Broadway across from Perkins Glass, present site of the QFC grocery store. According to a local authority on Seattle's restaurant history, prior to the restaurant's 1977 closure the Bagdad was the first to introduce a happy hour from six-to-nine ... AM.
The Bagdad Cafe had no connection to the 1987 indie flick ... that we know of.
Price: $950.00