Hard Rock Cafe opens in Seattle with local artifacts; rock, roll and remember...

At the new, 14,000-square-foot Hard Rock Cafe Seattle, 116 Pike St., most of the musical artifacts have strong Seattle connections. And for fans of Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam and other Seattle bands of the ’90s, the Emerald City store could become a kind of grunge mecca.

There are few artifacts from the Northwest’s early rock ‘n’ roll years — The Sonics, Kingsmen (”Louie, Louie”), Wailers and the like. But signs throughout the restaurant suggest that the chain plans to add more memorabilia as time goes by. A few Jini Dellaccio photos would be great.

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