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Ye olde StarbucksPosted May 12th 2006 3:07PM by Anne MetzFiled under: Teas, Coffee, Breakfast, Snacks, West Coast, Stores & Shopping, The History of..., Food Quest, America, Coffee shopsWhile in Seattle recently for a wedding, I made a pilgrimmage to the place where it all started: the very first Starbucks. It's right next to Pike Place Market, and so if you're a local, you probably steer clear of the whole thing already.I, however, was a tourist, so I had carte blanche to do all the embarassing tourist stuff (the Rem Koolhaus-designed public library, the Seattle Art Museum, the Experience Music Project, and yes, I would have ridden the Monorail were it not closed for repairs). With Nicole Weston's recent post about the anti-Starbucks coffee delocator in mind, I went to the Starbucks that started it all.At the heart of the Starbucks empire, what did I discover? Well, a place with a unique logo (the original mermaid, not the one that has been made family-friendly; she's distinctly feminine and beautiful, unlike the Wilma Flintstone look-alike at your neighborhood Starbucks). And a coffeeshop that doesn't have a whole lot of floorspace. And a place that seems to have a committed clientele.In short, it's exactly the kind of local coffeeshop that Starbucks has managed to put out of business everywhere else in America.
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