Do all of us have a “golden era”?  I was in my mid-20s when I started my busin

Do all of us have a “golden era”? 

I was in my mid-20s when I started my business in the Pioneer Square area of Seattle. It was the center of cool where creatives ‍✍️ and innovators worked & played. We’d found a home where there were great clubs,  restaurants,and similar people gathered. “Startups” ‍ wasn’t a word yet, but they were happening. Gordon Bowker (an original founder of Starbucks) was one the early supporters of the Weekly, a Seattle newspaper ️in my office building. 

One of my friends from those days was Jerry Gay, a Pulitzer prizewinning photographer  who founded “Picture Magazine.” We just spoke this week & I dug up these photos he shot of Chihuly Gardens for a story I was working on in 2012. 

My office had a leather couch, ️ chrome & glass furniture and a Bang & Olufsen stereo incessantly playing jazz albums. Roger Downey, one of the Weekly writers, ⌨️ called me “Jazz baby.”

People in the building who drank coffee ☕chipped in & we shared the cost.  Roger insisted we always buy “Yuban,”  a canned coffee that was more expensive than Folgers and Maxwell House.

Judy, the Weekly office manager thought it would be funny  to fill the Yuban can with “Brand ✖️” to see what would happen.  Roger didn’t notice. How’s that for the power of advertising?

For many, our 20s & 30s is the golden age  and a fun time in our lives. 

Do you have a favorite memory of your young adult years? ‍‍‍

PHOTOS: #Chihulygardenandglass at the Seattle Center - photos by Jerry Gay; An early #Starbucks ad I designed for Gordon in 1978.
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. (at Chihuly Garden and Glass)
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