# Crocodile Café

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crocodile-cafe/460060>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 15, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crocodile-cafe/460060 "2008-08-15T02:31:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crocodile-cafe/460060/1 "2008-08-15T02:31:16Z")

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Inspired by [this thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=478692).

My office is around the corner from the [Crocodile Café](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocodile_Cafe). I’d planned to go to some shows, but I’d just started the new job and I was working a fairly brutal 4/40 schedule. (Only brutal because I live so far away and I had to get up at 03:45 to get to work by seven.) So the best I could do was lunch. Well, I’ll work out the schedule and then I’ll go. Right? Wrong. The venue [closed in December](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004078691_webcroc17m.html).

But wait! [There’s a new owner](http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebigblog/archives/145282.asp?from=blog_last3)! Today I snapped [two](http://www.flickr.com/photos/27492458@N05/2763654297/) [photos](http://www.flickr.com/photos/27492458@N05/2763654295/). The first one is the iconic sign, and the second one is the liquor license application. Sorry about the poor quality. I was using the camera on my phone and the light was really in a bad angle.

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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crocodile-cafe/460060/2 "2008-08-15T02:39:28Z")

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Cool. Now maybe the last owner will pay her late fees . . .

But yeah, when I was working at KEXP and living in Belltown I had some of my alltime great concert experiences at the Croc. Hope it’s half as good as it was before.

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/crocodile-cafe/460060/3 "2008-08-15T02:45:59Z")

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[QUOTE=lissener]  
But yeah, when I was working at KEXP…  
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KEXP is what I listen to at work, when I don’t have the iPod playing.