The Lockspot Cafe, apparently trying to cash in with a play on the Discovery Channel’s “Deadliest Catch” show title, is advertising this:
The bar was closed when I went by, so if anyone has one of the shirts, send us a picture at tips@myballard.com so we can post it here.
If “deadliest” equates with dive, what other worthy contenders can you think of in Ballard that haven’t been replaced by more sanitized establishments?
Adds Andrew in comments: “Deadliest Catch filmed their last episode of last season at the Lockspot. Inside, you’ll see autographed items and posters of the show. Plus, it’s a great place. They have fantastic seafood.”
Update: Earlier this month, Ballard Gossip Girl’s readers voted that the Ember Room at the Smoke Shop is Ballard’s best dive bar. And by the way, the Seattle Weekly blog Voracious just posted a review on the Smoke Shop, “Where the smoking ban stinks… literally.”
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1 andrew // Apr 24, 2008 at 11:32 am
Deadliest Catch filmed their last episode of last season at the Lockspot. Inside, you’ll see autographed items and posters of the show.
Plus, it’s a great place. They have fantastic seafood.
2 biff // Apr 24, 2008 at 11:33 am
That bar on first hill where a couple got gunned down last month would be a great candidate.
3 Duncan // Apr 24, 2008 at 11:35 am
They’ve been advertising those shirts for months now. I actually saw someone wearing one of them overseas.
I would name my favorite Ballard dives but I’m afraid Suthii would suggest replacing them with condos — that is, after all, a more “efficient” use of the property.
4 John Eddy // Apr 24, 2008 at 11:56 am
Actually, it wasn’t the last episode it was the mini ‘After the Catch’ after the last season. http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/deadliestcatch/episode/after-the-catch/after-the-catch.html
5 gooner // Apr 24, 2008 at 12:26 pm
this is a bit of a telephone game… but for what it is worth, i have a friend who’s friend knows a couple of the guys on the boat (the northwestern i think it is), and he said the reason they decided to go to the lockspot that day is b/c they didn’t want to go to any of the pubs/bars they usually go to b/c they didn’t want any tourists/groupies going there just to see them.
so the lockspot is getting a name for where the deadliest catch guys hang out, when indeed it couldn’t be further from the truth.
6 keith // Apr 24, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Ballard Gossip Girl has a poll on best dive bar in Ballard.
7 Ballard Gossip Girl // Apr 24, 2008 at 3:33 pm
I always thought that Goofy’s or Golden City were the “stabbiest” bars in Ballard, although not quite the deadliest. I mean, people have actually been stabbed there.
One Gossip Girl saw Sue, a bartender from the Lockspot, jump the bar and wrestle a crazy woman to the ground and get in a punching, hair-pullin, get-out-of-my-bar, clothes-tearing altercation one time, but it wasn’t deadly.
And for what it’s worth, we know where the captains/crew from Deadliest Catch hang out and drink but you really don’t want to see them drunk. It’s not a pretty sight.
Here’s the Best Dive Bar winner: http://www.ballardgossipgirl.com/2008/04/cheers-to-ember-room.html
8 chelsea // Apr 25, 2008 at 10:12 am
I worked near the Lockspot last summer when they were filming. The bar was shut down for about a week, and there were production trucks all over. It was quite the event in the west Market end of things.
The exciting part was when the episode aired, they ‘zoomed’ into the ‘watering hole’ using Google Maps, so my house was briefly on TV. Yes. International fame, mine at last.
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