Main Street, Seattle 1960

Taken from 1960 Polk City Directory

Main Street (now South Main Street)

From South Alaskan Way To Boren Way

from S. Alaskan Way to Occidental Ave. - North Side
76 Puget Sound Hardware
80-82 Instantwhip Seattle Inc. food mfr.
84 John A Chales whol candy and tobacco
98 Solomon Shippers Supply Co. second hand boxes

from S. Alaskan Way to Occidental Ave. - North Side
77 Poop Deck Tavern (aka Pete's Poop Deck) [1970s Shelly's Leg gay disco]
83 William Argens Safe & Lock Co.
83½ Our Home Hotel lodgings - T Maruhashi - Dodd Fulkerson
87 Quong Sing Laundry - Stephen K Luke
89 Bread of Life Mission (dorm)
93 Bread of Life Mission (lunch room) - Alonzo D Garrett
107 Globe Hotel lodgings - Harukidi Fugami
109 Sound Leatherwear Co. jacket mfrs
115 Union Gospel Mission used clothing
119 Masin E Furniture Co. Inc. warehouse

From Occidental Ave. to 2nd Ave. S. - North Side
164 Crawford Brothers Employment Agency
168 Rainier Hotel lodgings - Junya Yamamoto

From Occidental Ave. to 2nd Ave. S. - North Side
none

From 2nd Ave. S. to 3rd Ave. S. - North Side
202 Porter & Johnson Inc. ivory products
208 Main Hotel lodgings - Junzo Nishimoto
210 Tommy's Cafe

From 2nd Ave. S. to 3rd Ave. S. - North Side
207 Trinity Chapel
213 International Longshoremen's & Warehousemen's Union Local No. 37 - Amor L Guerzon bookkeeping service

From 3rd Ave. S. to 4th Ave. S. - North Side
302 Main Bowl Barber Shop
304 Vacant
306 Vacant
308 Vacant
310 Gasparetti's Roma Cafe

From 3rd Ave. S. to 4th Ave. S. - North Side
307 Nemoc Electrical Co. (shipping door) - Seattle Lighting Fixture Co. (shipping door)

From 4th Ave. S. to 5th Ave. S. - North Side
404 Vacant
406 Leo George
408 Huck's Cleaners
408½ Eagle Hotel lodgings - James M. Smith
410 Vacant
410½ Preston's Barber Shop
412 Station Barber Shop
414 Uwajimaya Co. (warehouse)
414½ Station Hotel lodgings - Shinji Kameda
416 Uwajimaya Co. (store room)
420-22 Uwajimaya Co. importers general merchandise
422½ Empire Hotel lodgings - Masao Yamaquchi
424 Happy Tavern

From 4th Ave. S. to 5th Ave. S. - North Side
none

From 5th Ave. S. to 6th Ave. S. - North Side
500 Main Ice Cream Shop
502 Japanese Placement Service employment agency
502½ Dan's Barber Shop
506 Belmont Food Market grocery
508-10 Gyokko-Ken Cafe
508½ Belmont Hotel lodgings
514 Vacant
516 Vacant
518 Togo Realty Co.
520 Tenkatsu Cafe restaurant
520a Sun Hotel lodgings - Toshio Toyoji
522 Main Drug Co.
522a M S Hotel lodgings - S Kamachi
524 Sagamiya Co. books and confectionery

From 5th Ave. S. to 6th Ave. S. - North Side
501 Main Street Grocery - Isidore Supnet
501½ Bowling Hotel lodgings
503 Tommy George
505 Main Shokudo restaurant
507 Main Pool Room - Jack Watanabe
509 Vacant
511 M K Fish & Grocery Co.
513 Ajax Photo Supply
515 Miyako restaurant
517 Vacant
519 New Chinatown Dance Hall
521 Kinomoto Travel Service - Frank Y Kinomoto accountant
523 Arlington Hotel Building Corp. real estate owners - Abbottsford Investment Co. Inc. real estate owners - Globe Investment Co. Inc. - HTK Management Co. real estate - Seattle Hotel Building Corp. real estate owners - Seaview Development Co. real estate owners - H T K Investment Co. Inc. real estate
527 New Chinatown Cafe

From 6th Ave. S. to 7th Ave. S. - North Side
none

From 6th Ave. S. to 7th Ave. S. - South Side
601 Vacant
603 Vacant
605 Valley Food Market grocery
605½ Panama Hotel lodgings - Takashi Hori - Mariya Saito dentist
607 Kosaku Sato
609 Vacant
611 Keisuke Yoshida
651 Vacant
651a Vacant
653 Vacant
653a Marion E Price
655 Vacant
655a Howard Smith
657a Vacant
657b Martha Cook
659 Mrs. Essie Kilgore
659b Vacant
661 Mrs. Ollie Johnson
661a Vacant
661b Vacant
665 Eligie Jackson
665b Vacant
667 Mrs. Gracie L Willis
669 Mrs. Blundell Carr
671 Henry L Prater
673 Vacant
675 James W. McCullough
675½ Vacant

From 7th Ave. S. to 8th Ave. S. - North Side
none [I-5 freeway today]

From 7th Ave. S. to 8th Ave. S. - South Side
none

From 8th Ave. S. to 9th Ave. S. - North Side
none

From 8th Ave. S. to 9th Ave. S. - South Side
none

From 9th Ave. S. to 10th Ave. S. - North Side
none

From 9th Ave. S. to 10th Ave. S. - South Side
none

From 10th Ave. S. to 12th Ave. S. - North Side
none

From 10th Ave. S. to 12th Ave. S. - South Side
none

From 12th Ave. S. to 14th Ave. S. - North Side
none [Note: the Boren extension (Boren Way S.) was cut through from Yesler to 12th in 1948-50 but, but the intersection with Main is not listed in the book -- I don't know why. The Jackson intersection with Boren (and Rainier) is listed. Was this last section not completed yet in 1960?]
1200 Boren Chevron Service
1212 Thomas W Shelby - John Sessions
1236 Frank Russo Apartments - Frank T Russo
  1 Vacant
  2 Vacant
  3 Dale Thorn
  4 Monroe Williams
  5 Vacant
  6 Gilbert Logan
  7 Vacant
  8 Vacant
  9 Bradley Pierce
  10-11 James F Fairbanks
  12 Robert Bantry
  13 Vacant
  14 Patricia Lupino
  15 Vacant
  16 Vacant
  17 Vacant
  19 John Townsend
1238 Forbidden City Dine & Dance
1256 Rainier Apartment Hotel
  1 Lamar Greer
  2 Mrs. Josephine Mench
  3 Tom Prince
  4 Lillie P. Stewart
  5 Katy Riles
  6 Vacant
  7 James McLairun
  8 Charles King Jr.
  9 Mitsus Komoriya
  10 George K. Baba
  11 Kazuko Nakano
  12 Sandy S Spencer
  14 Robert Martin
  15 Clemy Brooks
  16 Ernest Wright
  17 Albert Rucker
  18 Jessie Young
  19 William Lee
  20 Kagoro Nozaki
  21 Kagoro Rosebrook
  22 Asataro Fiijimoto house cleaner
  23 Dobie Adams
  24 Cleveland Waters
  25 Sank Henderson
  26 Joseph Kawamura gardener
  28 Mattie Prince
1320 Peter Thomas & Co. Inc. truck body builders

From 12th Ave. S. to 14th Ave. S. - South Side
none
1203 Dewitt Gathings
1205 Mable James
1207 James McQueen
1207½ Mrs. Catherine Cannady
1211 Frank Davis
1211½ Marvin D Marshall
1213 Mrs. Leola Miller
1215 Mrs Ludie Brinkley
1217 New Born Church of Christ
1217½ Vacant
1219-23 Reno Apartments
  1 Abraham Duggins
  2 Vacant
  3-4 Ulysses A Artego
  5 Vacant
  6 Emil F Steele
  7 Vacant
  8 Vacant
  9 Vacant
  10 Vacant
  11-12 Vacant

Fourteenth Avenue intersects