Morningtown Pizza & Subs 1969 T-Shirt

If you lived in Seattle in the late '60s, you probably remember the Emerald City's burgeoning counterculture scene that could be found in the U-District. Within this scene reminiscent of Northern California, numerous hippie run businesses sprang up, one of which was Morningtown Pizza and Subs. Tom Ninkovich, Warren Argo, and Bob Owen were friends who quit their jobs to make a worker-owned cooperative pizza parlor a reality, and Morningtown opened their doors on April Fools' Day 1969. Located in a converted garage at 4110 Roosevelt Way NE, the atmosphere was low-key with a folk music soundtrack, and a staff of hippies making some surprisingly food. The college crowd ate it up, as the U-District was lacking in food options in the '60s.