The Edgewater - Where the Beatles Went Fishing
Photo: Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
A stop on Seattle Pike Place and Downtown, a free self-guided tour.
Follow the waterfront north past the cruise ship terminal to the low hotel standing out over the water at Pier 67. The Edgewater opened in 1962, the year of the World's Fair, and in its early days it advertised that guests could fish right from their rooms.
On August 21, 1964, the Beatles played a concert at the Seattle Center Coliseum and stayed here, reportedly because no other hotel in town would take them. The hotel put up fencing to hold back the screaming fans. That afternoon, photographers caught Ringo Starr dangling a fishing line out the window of room 272 into Elliott Bay while Paul McCartney and John Lennon looked on. They didn't catch a thing, but the picture became one of Seattle's favorite pop culture moments, and the hotel still celebrates it with a Beatles suite.
The hotel is private, so enjoy it from the public walkway outside. Look north from here and you'll see the green slopes of the Olympic Sculpture Park, your next stop.
Getting here: Walk north along the Alaskan Way waterfront promenade about half a mile, past Pier 66, to the Edgewater at Pier 67.
Did you know?: The hotel sits on the site of the old Galbraith-Bacon pier, which was renamed Pier 67 during World War II.
Photo op: From the sidewalk just south of the hotel, frame its waterside windows with the bay behind and imagine a fishing rod poking out.
More on Wikipedia: The Edgewater · The Beatles · Ringo Starr
Stops on this tour
- Pioneer Square - Where Seattle Began
- Smith Tower - Seattle's First Skyscraper
- Seattle Central Library - A Library Made of Glass
- Seattle Art Museum - Meet Hammering Man
- Gum Wall - The Stickiest Spot in Town
- Pike Place Market - Meet the Producer
- Original Starbucks - A Famous Coffee Line
- Victor Steinbrueck Park - The Man Who Saved the Market
- Seattle Waterfront - A Shoreline Reborn
- The Edgewater - Where the Beatles Went Fishing
- Olympic Sculpture Park - Art by the Bay
- Chief Seattle Statue - The Man Behind the Name
- Space Needle - The 1962 World's Fair Icon