Iron Horse (restaurant)
Iron Horse | |
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Restaurant information | |
Established | 1971 |
Closed | 2000 |
Food type | Hamburger |
Street address | 311 3rd Avenue South |
City | Seattle |
State | Washington |
Country | United States |
Coordinates | 47°35′58″N 122°19′50″W / 47.599569°N 122.330478°WCoordinates: 47°35′58″N 122°19′50″W / 47.599569°N 122.330478°W |
The Iron Horse was a hamburger restaurant in Seattle, Washington, established in 1971 by Charlie Maslow.[1] Located in Pioneer Square, food orders at the restaurant were delivered by model trains which moved along a track that circled the dining area.[2][3][4] The Iron Horse closed in 2000, its then-owners citing increasing rents created by the dot com boom, combined with a loss of event business occasioned by the demolition of the Kingdome, as reasons for its shuttering.[1]
After the closure of the Iron Horse, the subsequent closing of another train-themed Seattle restaurant – Andy's Diner – prompted the Seattle Weekly's Mike Seely to eulogize that in "the sweet hereafter ... the Big Engineer in the sky makes a choice between Andy's and the Iron Horse".[5]
The restaurant was located at 311 3rd Avenue South, near the King Street Station.[6]
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References[]
- ^ a b "End of the line for Iron Horse". Seattle Times. November 22, 2000. Retrieved January 19, 2008.
- ^ Samson, Kam (2001). Frommer's Seattle and Portland 2001. Wiley & Sons. p. 64. ISBN 076456191X.
- ^ "What our writers love this week". Seattle Times. October 31, 2008. Retrieved January 19, 2018.
- ^ Shannon, Robin (2008). Seattle's Historic Restaurants. Arcadia Publishing. p. 87. ISBN 0738559156.
- ^ Seely, Mike (September 20, 2010). "SoDo's Orient Express Hopes for Another Trainwreck". Seattle Weekly. Archived from the original on 2018-04-30. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
- ^ Crew, Anna (2001). Moneywise Guide to North America. BUNAC. p. 391. ISBN 0952687259.
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