Rather the genesis of the collective enthusiasm, said Manning, was “when somebody won a $100 pull tab and rang the bell.” This wasn’t because the University of Washington was rolling over some heavyweight East Coast program in a nationally televised non-conference game, as one might assume. It was, he recalled, “the most excited I’ve ever seen this bar.” The establishment’s co-owner, Scott Manning, remembers this Saturday vividly. The Ebb Tide Room featured its fair share of patrons on one Saturday morning several years back during college football season. It is at this nexus of industry - a stone’s throw from Washington state’s last steel mill - where the Chelan Cafe and its lounge, the Ebb Tide Room, sit, attracting a robust pre-noon crowd of clock-punchers and blue-collar barons alike. But as a major oceanic port city that gave birth to Boeing, it remains home to a significant manufacturing sector, mostly situated in the city’s southwest quadrant, which encompasses the neighborhoods of SoDo, Georgetown, West Seattle, and South Park.
Present-day Seattle is a place best known for producing and selling goods in cyberspace, not by land or by sea.
