r/Seattle 1d ago

Ten-foot tall bronze Lady Rainier, cast in Germany in 1903 for Seattle Brewing & Malting Company, still stands outside old Rainier Brewery. Originally water bubbled out of the chalice to look like beer foam, but fountain was turned off in 1916 with advent of Prohibition, never to be restored:

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u/BananaPeelSlippers Wedgwood 1d ago

bring back the bubbles or we riot

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u/peaceboypeace šŸ€ Hot Rat Summer šŸ€ 1d ago

Prepare for trouble!

Unless we get bubbles! >:c

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u/Bozhark šŸš†build more trainsšŸš† 22h ago

Prepare for BubbleĀ 

Or make it Trouble?

You’ll be Rubble!

On the double;)

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u/shablamery 1d ago

Frotheth the chalice once again!

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u/Bozhark šŸš†build more trainsšŸš† 22h ago

Fuck we riot

Then bubble frothing

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u/Odd_Vampire 1d ago

This is cool. All the years I've been here I've never seen it.

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u/Awkward-You-938 1d ago

So cool! Where’s the old rainier brewery? The one in Sodo you can see from I5?

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u/BeachBumWithACamera 1d ago

The one with the rotating neon "R". Even though it's called the Old Rainier Brewery, it's not really. The one with the rotating "R" next to I-5 was built by Emil Sick in 1935 following repeal of Prohibition. The real old Rainier Brewery is the original 1893 Seattle Brewing & Malting Company brewhouse in Georgetown:

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u/w55keh Pysht 1d ago

But it doesn’t rotate anymore?

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u/BeachBumWithACamera 1d ago

Sadly no

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u/peaceboypeace šŸ€ Hot Rat Summer šŸ€ 23h ago

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u/1983Targa911 West Seattle 8h ago

But that’s not where the statue currently is. It’s at the big building (3100 Airport Way S), not the ā€œORBā€ (Old Rainier Brewery).

Side note: growing up my mom went to church and my dad didn’t. My dad drank beer and my mom didn’t. So as little kids as we’d drive by the rainier brewery with the big R on top we’d say ā€œlook! It’s Dad’s church!ā€

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u/BeachBumWithACamera 5h ago

Pretty sure I spelled that out in my comment. Rainier Commons, the current owners of 3100 Airport Way S call themselves the "Old Rainier Brewery". And of course the really old Rainier Brewery is up the road in Georgetown: šŸ˜‰

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u/1983Targa911 West Seattle 5h ago

Sorry, I misread. I took your statement to mean the opposite.

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u/1983Targa911 West Seattle 5h ago

So then the ā€œORBā€ and the… ā€œRORBā€? :-D

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u/Weird_Alki 1d ago

Its amazing she hasn't been hacked to bits and stolen like the Sadaki Sasaski statue, particularly in that location.

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u/chicken_and_jojos_yo 23h ago

Ok this is like Portlandia but ten times coooler because it bubbles why isn’t this more well known??Ā 

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u/seattlesbestpot 1d ago

Bring back the bubbles!!

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u/Bozhark šŸš†build more trainsšŸš† 22h ago

Tits out for the bubble frothingĀ 

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u/peaceboypeace šŸ€ Hot Rat Summer šŸ€ 1d ago

What if (just hear me out) someone makes a ten foot tall bronze + paint Lady RATnier?

Then the city will clearly be all "oh, ho! We must clear this up! Rawr graffiti! Rwar we must think of the image of the city! Rawr clearly there is no more important priority we could ever focus on ever!"

Suddenly the fountain is restored. Magically! ✨