Vintage Ernie Steele's Checkerboard Lounge Seattle T-Shirt

Across the street at the northeast corner of Thomas and Broadway is the long-lived Checkerboard Café and Cocktail Lounge. From my years on Capitol Hill in the early 1970s I remember it as Ernie Steele’s Restaurant, with its dark bar, sportsman’s murals stained by decades of nicotine and deep frying, and that special smell that such places share and which no scented evergreen can cover. Later it became Eileen's and still later Julia's