For decades, the Frontier Room on First Avenue was a retreat for sailors and longshoremen who liked their bar dark and their drinks strong. By the early ’90s, the Frontier Room was a favorite seedy haunt for musicians who came for the potent, $1.50 highballs.

It was a big part of Belltown’s ’90s club scene and exuded such hipness that the Sunday Mail in London described the Frontier Room as “so cool it’ll make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.”

But last week, the Frontier Room finally limped to its death. It was put up for lease and listed on Craigslist as a “landmark restaurant space.”

In truth, the Frontier Room died a long time ago, when it was sold in 2001. It re-opened as a cleaned-up barbecue restaurant, which kept the Western theme and iconic neon sign.

But it wasn’t the same. It’s the old Frontier Room, around since at least 1954, that joins this list of Seattle bars we miss:

You might as well continue your trip down memory lane, with this look at Seattle restaurants we miss:

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