This video covers the Oct. 24, 2014, opening ceremony of the Ye Olde Curiosity Shop focus area of our “Birthplace of Seattle” Log House Museum.
To view a transcript of the ceremony, click here. (Transcript by volunteer Kristen Legg.)
Participants are Joe James, 90-year-old grandson of founder and prominent West Seattleite Joseph “Daddy” Standley; Joe’s son, Andy James; and Andy’s son, Neil James; as well as Peg Boettcher, “chief wrangler” for the shop who curated the focus area. Introducing the group is Marcy Johnsen, president of our historical society.
The Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, a prominent tourist attraction of the Seattle waterfront since it opened in 1899, closed Oct. 1, 2014, to allow seawall reconstruction, and it reopened July 1, 2015.
The Admiral-district home of Joseph Standley, in which grandson Joe James grew up, was the site of the historical society’s “If These Walls Could Talk” home tour on Sunday, June 28, 2015. For more information, click here.
