Parkers
1929 - Present
Aka: Acquarius Tavern
17001 Aurora Avenue North
Seattle, Washington
Photo: Brian Semple
This is how Parkers appeared in August 2000
Though renamed back to Parkers after being the Acquarius Tavern for a while, this building now serves as a Casino.
Fortunately, this building still stands. Once a haven for the teen circuit music explosion, it now serves as a casino. Many of the old 50's and 60's dance halls from Puget Sound no longer exist.We are in the process of compiling a list of the bands that performed at Parkers in the 60's. If you had a band that played here, have a flyer or advertisement for gigs at Parkers, or remember seeing a particular band perform at this establishment, please let us know and we will add their name to the list of bands that performed here. Send any information to our Webmaster.
Read More About Parkers at the Seattle/King County History LinkStaff
Louise Kennedy
Donna
Others?
Louise Kennedy Brodland & Donna at the Front Desk
October 1979
Parkers Matchbook Cover
Courtesy of Ron and Don Edge
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Africa Fete Putt Anderson & his Dixieland Band Alisyn Flyer B.B. King Bad Boy Badfinger Backbone The Bandits The Beach Boys Beachcombers Elvin Bishop Blue Oyster Cult Blue Sky Bluebird Big Horn Bodine The Box Tops Bread BTO The Buckinghams Buffalo Springfield Burgundy Express The Bumps Burgandy Express The Byrds Calliope Captain Oh Wow Ray Charles Chaser Child City Limits Joe Cocker Albert Collins James Cotton Conspiracy Count 5 |
Crowded House Crown The Cyrkle The Daily Flash Bobby Darin Dave Clark Five Dave Lewis Combo The Deacons The Dimensions Doug Kershaw Duffy Bishop Band The Dynamics The Edge Elvin Bishop Elvis Mania Epicentre Eric Burdon The Exotics with Woody Carr The Fab Four The Fleetwoods Fragile Lime The Frantics Full Blown Jan Garber Orchestra Burke Garrett Orchestra The Gatormen Don & The Goodtimes Norman Greenbaum The Guess Who Harbour Heart Island Cowboys Joan Jett Albert King Lee Michaels Lemonpipers |
Guy Lombardo Orchestra Grassroots Lydia Pense and Cold Blood Magic Fern Marshall Tucker Band John Mayall MoJo MenNomads Neville Brothers Ohio Players Johnny Otis Paul Revere & The Raiders Rick Nelson Patch Peece Max Pillar Orchestra Nazereth The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Pied Pipers Poco Popcorn Gary Puckett & The Union Gap Rapid Transit System (R.T.S.) The Young Rascals The Rangehoods Red Rider The Righteous Brothers Rimfire Johnny Rivers The Rock Collection Rock Kandy Rocky & His Friends The Rogues Frankie Roth Orchestra The Rum Runners Santana Seattle Star |
Shyanne Simply Red Sonics Sons of Chaplin Spirit Standells Statics Al StewartGeorge Straight Superband Sweet Talkin' Jones Koko Taylor Texas Tornados Thea & The Sunset Drifters Them The Thin Red Line George Thorogood Time Machine Billy Tolles Toots & the Maytals Tower of Power Trane Robin Trower Tanya Tucker Merrilee & The Turnabouts Tina Turner The Ventures Viceroys Bobby Vee Wailers Muddy Waters West Coast Natural Gas Johnny Winters Stevie Wonder Warren Zevon |
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In high school (Shoreline) we were regular visitors to Parkers. The Dynamics were my personal favorite. I also remember seeing Bobby Vee there around 1962 or 1963.Skip Bowe, Stockton, CA, August 2007
I can not forget my sneaking out from my bedroom window to go to the forbidden, infamous, PARKERS.
How well I remember watching Jerry Lee Lewis right after his involvement wwith his cousin and the rude, mean audience he played to, there, throwing pennies at him, and my crying for the ugly cruel way people were showing their lack of respect for him as a proformer. I guess that was not a time when we placed, “Principles before Personalities”.
Deb Cook, May 2010
Last Update: 22 January 2012
Credits: S. Carlson, Top Photo by B. Semple, Norm Peterson, Dave Baroh (R.I.P.), Steve Feary, Dean Tonkin, Denny Gore, Louise Kennedy Brodland, Marc Lathrop, Don Gardner, Steve Fukushima, Keith Craine, Fred Raxter, Paul Rieland, Ed Busey, John Rice, Mike Allan, Chris Ronning, Jim Sola, Kevin Mason, Gretchen Christopher, Robin Feetham, Alan Berry, Michael Linehan, Peter Simpson, Walt Melweski, Fil Gudmundson, Dave Burke, Bob Brannon, Stan Price, John Gordon, Greg Cole, Nina Mabalay, Skip Bowe, Phil Dirt, Joel Johnson, Glenn Raymond, Tom Lash, Trapper Graves-Lalor, Mike Elwell, Don Edge, Ron Edge, Jim Henning, Deb Cook, Richard Evans, Richard McNamee, Jeff Morgan, Craig Fletcher