Elliott Bay Book Company

This guide to Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle follows the basement cafe that has run since 1979, when Walter and Maggie Carr, the store's founders, knocked a hole in the floor next to the reading room. You'll hear about the string of owners who kept the coffee going through the decades, including the future founders of Top Pot Donuts, and the store's own claim that a sitcom's coffee shop borrowed its idea from this room. It traces the cafe's path from Pioneer Square through the move to Capitol Hill and the old Ford truck-repair building it occupies now.