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| Title | Menu from the Jolly Roger |
| Photographer | Richard Nicol |
| Notes | When Washington voters authorized Prohibition in 1916, roadhouses sprang up outside the city limits, throughout unincorporated King County. Policed by the thinly-spread King County Sheriff's department, they were popular locations for speakeasies selling illegal liquor and purveying prostitution and gambling. There are many stories about the roadhouse that became known as the Jolly Roger. According to one story, the Prohibition-era China Castle, in Lake City, boasted a tower with a watchman, who signaled the approach of police bent on a raid. Patrons reputedly could escape arrest by racing into tunnels under the road. Renamed the Jolly Roger, the restaurant was a fixture on Lake City Way from 1933 on, listed as a Seattle Historic Landmark in 1979. Ten years later, the Jolly Roger burned to the ground. |
| Subjects | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Shorline; |
| Location | United States--Washington (State)--King County--Shorline |
| Digital Collection | King County Museum Collections
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| Note About Ownership | This record describes one of more than three hundred artifacts, photographs and documents, submitted by members of the Association of King County Historical Organizations. The King County Collects project took place during the county's sesquicentennial in 2001, to celebrate the shared collection of AKCHO's 205 members. The information presented here is the responsibility of the AKCHO organization which submitted the item for inclusion in the project. |
| Ordering Information | To order a reproduction or to inquire about permissions, contact Vicki Stiles at shm@shorelinehistoricalmuseum.org or at (206) 542-7111. |
| Credit Line | Shoreline Historical Museum; All Rights Reserved |
| Repository | Shoreline Historical Museum |
| Type | Image |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from slide as a 3000 pixel TIFF image in 16-bit color, resized to 640 pixels in the longest dimension and compressed into JPEG format using CONTENTdm's image import. |
