The Crocodile
Belltown club where a cafe, a liquor bar and a mosh-pit-sized stage share one storefront.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Crocodile in Seattle's Belltown opens on the fourth of October, 1992, when the club was still the Crocodile Cafe and the bill listed Mudhoney plus an opener with a name that sounds like a joke. It also covers the club's own rough road: a sudden closure in 2007, a return in 2009 and a move in 2020 into the old Sailors' Union of the Pacific lodge on First Avenue.
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