The Grand Orange Lodge, known more commonly as the Orange Order got its name from Prince William III, the Prince of Orange, and was foundedafter theBattle of the Diamondoutside a small village in modern-day Northern Ireland called Loughgall. Our Social Quarters is staffed with many volunteers each day. [1] Paul de Barros, Jackson Street After Hours: The Roots of Jazz in Seattle, (Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1993), 10. Its a fun place, and a light place, but I wouldnt take it lightly. Black Elks Club According to Doug Chin's Seattle's International District, "In 1938, the African American Elks Club moved from the Central Area to the second floor of the Rainier Power and Heat Building at Jackson and Maynard (the same building where the JACL office was located). Back then, many of these societies served as safe spaces for open dialogue about everything from academia to religious discourse, removed from the restrictive eye of the church and state. The Old HangoutAt Elks Temple. The Lodge recently purchased the building that was formerly known as Ponti Seafood restaurant, a stunning location on the Ship Canal near the Fremont Bridge. Ballard Elks Club. This historically Black non-profit charitable, fraternal organization is still operating. DJ Smooth T sits in the booth and plays music for members at Cascade Lodge No. The renaissance of the Ballard Elks suggests, however quietly, that wide-scale civic engagement and the bridging social capital and empathy that accompanies it is returning. In 1906, sensing an opportunity to improve relations with the BPOE, the IBPOEW Grand Exalted Ruler Armand W. Scott ordered Black Elks to wear an IBPOEW pin, not the BPOE pin. Hearthstone Inn. Jackson Street jazz musicians also took their craft overseas and while entertaining international crowds, some learned a thing or two. The Maguires likely got its name because members used womens clothing as a disguise while allegedly carrying out its illegal acts, which also included arson and death threats. New disks are on their way. Go talk to that woman over there in the pink fleece, Anne says, half under her breath. A Rainier Avenue butcher shop offers an eye into Columbia City's roots. After the 1933 raid, the Black and Tan was operating at full capacity in no time, supplying Seattleites of all sorts with jazz and other allurements. Even repeated police raids and arrests could not shutdown a club with the popularity of the Black and Tan. A low-ceilinged room peppered with cocktail tables, the club sported a stuffed Elk near the door, behind which musicians recall smoking joints. Ive only been a member for three months, and Ive met so many people. The Odd Fellows, as they call themselves, are grounded in the ideals of friendship, love and truth. 'The stag bar,' they called it. The social quarters have no phone. The Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World. Ballard Elks Operating Fund Emergency Fund, Downstairs Event Space Sunset Bay Lodge, Animal House and Toga Contest February 25th. HSTAA 353 Fall 2009. While police raids were a constant annoyance, they rarely had lasting negative effects on popular clubs like the Black and Tan. 3014 3rd Ave. N. Seattle, WA 98109-1601 (206) 282-9292 Mailing Address P.O. With other organizations, a lot of dollars go to jets and national salaries; with us, people know where the moneys going. | READ MORE. Anyone whos lived long in Ballard has attended a memorial, a wedding, or a party in the ground-floor ballroom, the rental of which is contracted to an outside catering company. Amid all this, we encounter Brooks, sipping on a glass of Crown Royal poured by bartender and Daughter Ruler Gaye Spearman. [12] Bulosans memory is testament to the presence of a Filipino community just a block away from Jackson Street, illustrating the multiracialas well as musicalcharacter of the Yesler-Jackson community. Matt Lutton / Boreal Collective for BuzzFeed News, Steve Larson/The Denver Post via Getty Images, Library of Congress; courtesy Ballard Elks, the only real place for black folks to go. Im going back to the kitchen to get a piece of foil for my leftovers, she tells me, and Im gonna tell Felix that was the worst damn steak., The head of scholarship, Karl Johan Uri, made a barnaise sauce at home, and a small Tupperware of it is circulating at a corner table, where Ellen, in her early thirties, waits for her husband to arrive. ", Before Brooks knew it, he was elected Exalted Ruler, the lodge's foremost male leadership post. [3] Quintard Taylor, The Forging of a Black Community: Seattles Central District from 1870 through the Civil Rights Era, (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1994), 34-35. Together, the roadhouses and the Jackson Street night clubs embedded jazz in Seattles nightlife and [b]y 1928, jazz had taken over the popular music scene.[7] Clubs continued to pop up on and around Jackson Streetthe Blue Rose (later called the Rocking Chair) on 14th and Yesler and the Chinese Gardens Club (aka the Bucket of Blood), across from 511 7th Street Southand even when the stock market crashed and the Great Depression hit, there was no doubt that jazz would remain on Jackson Street. But the upstairs is Elks territory, in all its wood-paneled glory. It is also an outstanding venue for charitable events, family events, corporate outings and other events that will raise funds to support our charitable endeavors. When the club is booked for a private event, enjoy the intimacy of our original Sunset Lounge Social Quarters and balcony deck on the second floor! Regardless of how it first started, its fair to say the king got his wish. Seattles Black population numbered only 406 in 1900, but the following decades saw a sharp increase in Black migration. Zuniga scrolls through photos on her phone, showing pictures of the girls, who span first through sixth grades, working diligently on various badge projects. According to local jazz pianist Palmer Johnson, in the 1920s we played [n]o Dixieland and no two-beatThats old-time stuff. Candidates looking to be admitted to the club had to pass an examination by a competent physician, who is himself bound by his connection with the order, theBoston Weekly Globewrote in 1879. Its purpose was to"protect Protestants" andthats why, in 1849, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, George William Frederick Villiers, captured the ire of Dublins Waterford News for supporting the society. Its all in the name of fun and fundraising, benefiting veterans groups, youth programs, Ballard Food Bank, and more. Many Ballard Elks were first drawn to the beach parking and cheap drinks, but have found that their investment in the lodge, and the community that forms around it, has transformed into something more. Indeed, after they arrived in Seattle, Jones' uncle hired the pair for a regular gig at the Black Elks Club, a popular venue in the 600 block of Jackson Street. Ballard Elks Club Events / Seattle, WA - Get the Latest! Orangeism does not foster resentment or intolerance. Matt McKnight is formerly a visual journalist at Crosscut, where he covered a variety of political, social and environmental issues around the Pacific Northwest. Gradually that group started doing more with charity, and a lot more with veterans, but it was pretty much a mens organization.. Jake and John joke during the steak initiation dinner. In Farewell to Manzanar , Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston describes her father singing "Kimi ga yo," the Japanese national anthem. Sometimes, theres light friction Lois Morgensen, the lodges secretary, finds herself annoyed with some of the aspects of growth (All these people trying to get their spousal cards, she told me, and their last names are different!). In 1917, local entrepreneurs Russell Noodles Smith and Burr Blackie Williams opened the Dumas Club at 1040 Jackson. Members and visitors gather at Cascade Lodge No. An earlier version of this story misstated that fact. Roosevelts cash infusions put money in everyones pockets and the Green Dot was just the place for Jackson Streets and Seattles lower-income residents to enjoy jazz music. In the climate of Roosevelts New Deal, Jackson Street jazz clubs began catering to more class-specific audiences. Al Brooks is a Crown Royal man. Although when compared to more prominent jazz cities like Chicago, New York, or New Orleans, Seattles scene was small, it had its own special character. 2023 Cascade Public Media. Be our next winner! the lodge was one of the few places where black men and women could . Fillipinos [sic], Japanese, Negros and whites mingle in the same hotels and restaurants and there is an air of comradeship."[9]. And she said, I dont want anyone to know its my birthday. So we put up these signs that said, Celebrate Lois, and people came in and said, Oh my god, did Lois pass away? But no, she was alive., Very much so! Lois interjects. Johnson claimed that in the multiracial milieu of Shanghai, the American white man was the most ill-mannered, a claim that most Chinese agreed with. Previously the site of lavish Victorian homes, by 1890 Yesler-Jackson had an abundance of third-rate hotels, shops, bars, and brothels, which made the area decidedly lower-class. What the Elks provides varies from person to person, but the overarching gift remains the same: Its like home, in a time when that notion is very much in flux. army relocation center at Puyallup Fairgrounds near Tacoma. To include the principles of Charity, Justice, Brotherly Love and Fidelity; to a belief in God; to promote the welfare and enhance the happiness of its Members; to quicken the spirit of American patriotism; to cultivate good fellowship; to perpetuate itself as a fraternal organization, and to provide for its government, the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the United States of America will serve the people and communities through benevolent programs, demonstrating that Elks Care and Elks Share. In recent years, however, the Post-Gazette commented that the secret organization has struggled to retain its relevance. White Elks in Birmingham, AL, pulled Riggs from where he worked and threatened to lynch him unless he relinquished the charter on his next trip to Birmingham. Welcome to Ballard Elks Lodge 827 a social and charitable group that strives to make a difference in our community and beyond. For example: Oct 2 All 300 of the first pressing for Panama Hotel Jazz have sold out. The White Elks forced Riggs out of his job, and he could not find work anywhere in Cincinnati, so in 1899, under an assumed name, he and his family moved to Springfield, OH. Nearly every night, she drives the 10 minutes from her home in North Ballard and drinks MacNaughton and water out of a pink beer mug that everyone knows as hers. 1416 in Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, Feb. 23, 2019. Many Black jazz musicians said that while playing in Shanghai they were treated with respect for the fist time in their lives.[26] Accustomed to living under racial segregation in the United States, it is not surprising that Black jazz musicians felt they received more respect and more freedom in the cosmopolitan city of Shanghai. [14] de Barros, 3. The Grand Orange Lodge is still around today with clubs in Ireland, as well as others around the world. There are real skeletons in the orders lodges; they are used during initiation to remind its members of their mortality, the Washington Post reported in 2001. In many ways, the lodges are ciphers: event spaces malleable to the shifting civic and psychological needs of their members, instead of dictating them. Seattle's Black population numbered only 406 in 1900, but the following decades saw a sharp increase in Black migration. On her birthday, she received over 200 Facebook messages the vast majority of which came from men and women at least a third of her age. As swing developed, Seattles youth danced to big time jazz names like Duke Ellington, Benny Goodman, Woody Herman, and Gene Krupa, as well as to the local Jackson Street jazz musicians. These new groups forged their own path in the face of racism, and established vital gathering spaces for Blacks seeking basic services and a safe social outlet as the civil-rights movement took flight. 565 Broadway, Tacoma, WA 98402 (253) 300-8759 Contact Us. No! | Copyright 2023. It will get near death and come back again. [27] Ibid., 43. Introduced himself to *RayCharles 16 @BlackElksClub Inspired by his blindness and genius. The route to the Elks is choked with new condo developments, their siding painted tasteful, bold colors (turquoise, mustard yellow, brick red) and lined in white trim. The unique racial makeup of the Jackson Street area and the political context that licensed illegal activity made Jackson Street, as the Northwest Enterprise claimed, the citys playground., Seattles jazz scene thrived but showed some marked differences from jazz elsewhere in the country. 1416 in Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, Feb. 23, 2019. Johnson first left Jackson Street in 1934 for greener pastures in Portland, Oregon, another west coast jazz city. [13] This allowed Black migrants, Asian and Filipino immigrants, and whites to interact with relatively few conflicts. The Ballard Elks has more than 560. [28] Ibid., 41. Camp Harmony. But Seattle jazz will always have its roots in the jazz clubs of Jackson Street. Lodge Address: 6411 Seaview Avenue NW Seattle WA 98107. [6] Ibid., 3. Ballroom dancing night at the Ballard Elks Club. During this period, Yesler Way represented the dividing line between the more respectable parts of Seattle to the north, and the newly settled Yesler-Jackson community to the south. KIRO 7 News Team; Submit a news tip; KIRO 7 TV Schedule Some lodges have a difficult time paying monthly bills. The resentment among members of the white Elks continued. The informal atmosphere of the Green Dot attracted numerous patrons from around the Jackson Street and Seattle areas and was an ideal compliment to the glamorous, upscale, Ubangi. Download and print this Membership Application or find an application form in the Lounge during business hours. Shes just there to pick up supplies for the massive lasagna dinner the troops hosting at the lodge that weekend (sold out at 200, raising $4,400 for the Scouts, 10% of which went to the Elks). Members of the secret society the Molly Maguires, an organization with Irish origins brought to the United States by Irish immigrants. He owned both a Stutz Bearcat and a 1921 Packard and his ostentatious lifestyle likely offended many in such hard times, especially racist whites who cursed the success of Black entrepreneurs. Sure, the Freemasons are too mystical and readily associated with the villains of The Da Vinci Code; the Odd Fellows, whose membership once topped 2.7 million, cant overcome their name; and the business networking function of the Jaycees, Lions, and Rotary have been overtaken by LinkedIn. You can watch dozens of versions of it on YouTube, in various degrees of formality and intoxication, the words sticky in throats and scratchy on old gramophones. But why the Elks? It wasnt until the 70s that they allowed male minorities to join. Follow us: Facebook and Instagram for the latest News and Events, Directions: 6411 Seaview Ave NW Seattle, WA 98107, Office Hours: 10:00 A.M. 3:00 P.M. Monday thru Friday. For Jackson Street local and jazz pianist Palmer Johnson, what was intended to be a few months stay in Shanghai, ended up as a three-year adventure in which he played for bands in the Philippines, Malaysia, and Singapore. Today, Nestor, 65, serves as the Esteemed Loyal Knight, a sort of vice president to the clubs Grand Exalted Ruler. I like to remind people that once youre an Elk, youre an Elk for life.". During which war does this story take place? Email us at editor@crosscut.com or submit it to our story form. In 1907, the Seattle Republican reported on the Order . Today, any hint of that resentment or reticence is gone or at least undetectable and the Elks has become Loiss second home. [30] de Barros, 45. Ive only been yelled at to go home, gentrifiers once! All cities are a collection of neighborhoods, but Seattles location hedged in and bisected by water makes it more so than most. "That was the history of the nation. Search, watch, and cook every single Tasty recipe and video ever - all in one place! Nationally, the Elks raised $343 million in charitable gifts in 2015, and while each lodge pays dues on the national level, most funds remain local. In aseries of criminal trials, 20 Maguires weresentenced to death by hanging. Destructive 'Super Pigs' From Canada Threaten the Northern U.S. How progressive the order actually was is up to interpretation. (Maurice Blacknall, a former Seattle resident and longtime Boeing employee who now lives in Renton, currently holds that title.) Formally called the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, the order was once considered to be at the center of the black community. Jake has the round Norwegian face you see all over Ballard, and he first joined the Elks a lifetime ago. When he moved to Alaska, he became an Elk in Bad Standing, but when he started attending bingo with John, he paid a simple $25 fee and returned to the fold. Spearman is a Kent resident whose grandfather started an Elks lodge in Yakima. She told me this day is a dream come true for her. A week after new member orientation, its initiation night, and the steaks, served to every new member, are on the grill. They all rent for about $1,500 to $3,000 and boast views of water and walking distance to Ballard Avenue, a bricked street lined with gastropubs, French brasseries, shops that sell cute sandals and even cuter baby clothes, and bars with names like Shelter and Kings Hardware that literally overflow with twentysomethings. John Jordan Upchurch and 13 others in Meadville, Pennsylvania, founded the Ancient Order of United Workmen in 1868 with the goal of bettering conditions for the working class. The woman in the fleece just biked over from her job at the University of Washington, where she heads up Title IX compliance, specifically with sexual assault and violence. 1416, you pass through a modest, low-slung dining room with well-worn carpet and vinyl-backed chairs. [23] Ibid., 17-20. Get our quarterly newsletter to stay up-to-date, plus all speech or video narrative bookings near you as they happen. 1416 in Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood, Feb. 23, 2019. [32] Some of these big names even appeared in Jackson Streets nightclubs. Yet in 2011, the Grand Exalted Ruler was dismissed for improper conduct, which she alleged was part of a larger plot on the part of older, male members to remove her and other female leaders from power. Heres how one Seattle neighborhood has made the Elks, and the community it provides, cool again. But even the lavish Ubangi continued to deal with problems of police harassment. Canton Alley. Known today as Foresters Friendly Society, the Ancient Order of the Foresterswas initially established in 1834, according to thesocietys website, albeit under a slightly different name. As a musical style and as a social movement, jazz embodied this forward looking spirit. It was formally called the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and was founded in Cincinnati, OH. Located on 12th Avenue South and Jackson Street, it was know as Seattles most esteemed and longest lived nightclub,[14] and was later the inspiration for Duke Ellingtons famous short film and tune Black and Tan Fantasy. The order is just one of many clandestine organizations that exist today, though the popularity of these secret clubs peaked in the 18th and 19th centuries, writes Noah Shachtman for Wired. [10] Taylor, 148. It was established in 1897 in the United States. Tuesday: 3:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Dr. Samuel Myers Jr. is an economist, educator and activist. Brooks' first exposure to the Cascade lodge was as a DJ. (L to R) Longtime memberJ.R. Bonds, chapter president Maurice Blacknall and longtime member Al Brooks gather at the bar for beverages and conversation at Cascade Lodge No. To facilitate this musical exchange within bands, jazz bands got biggeroften times with twenty members or moreand became know as big bands.[19]. That organization morphed into Local 493 in 1924, and the two unions co-existed inharmoniously for the next four decades. Our lodge is a true landmark in Seattle. The citys geography most resembles Manhattan: the urban core attenuated thin with Puget Sound on one side, massive Lake Washington (past which lies Microsoft and the ritzy, suburban Eastside) on the other. You are Welcome Day and Night."[31]. In Ballard, the age span is part of the lodges allure. ArtSEA: Comedy, dance and bankruptcy, now showing on Seattle stages, ArtSEA: Swaddle yourself in soft Seattle art, Some farmers question WA state's plan to pay workers overtime, As Downtown recovers, Seattle reimagines what it could be, Two Pike Place totem poles to be removed but maybe not for good, As crypto mines aim for climate action, critics call greenwashing, Human Elements: Glass creations inspired by PNW marine life. Jazz on Jackson Street provided an environment where Seattleites of all races and classes could come together to enjoy themselves during the hard economic times of the Great Depression. Theres a similar cult of personality around Nestor Tamayao, a retired Army communications officer who, along with his brother, Felix, joined the Elks in 2012. That prompted Blacks to form their own organization, the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World (IBPOEW). 2023 Smithsonian Magazine [20] According to historian Paul de Barros, the absence of local big bands was a product of two factors. My family owns one of the shops on the lower level of Pike Place Market," she says, "and I spent my entire childhood running around there. Like many Ballard Elks, shes a liveaboard as in, she and her boyfriend, whos also an Elk, live on their boat, docked just down the road at Shilshole Marina. The woman on left is wearing a light colored suit, and the woman on the right is wearing a floor-length, light-colored dress, with a corsage. This historically Black non-profit charitable, fraternal organization is still operating. As the above excerpt suggests, Jackson Street was a unique part of Seattles nightlife and jazz was one of its allurements. Although the Northwest Enterprise did not mention jazz clubs explicitly, one could call Jackson Streets jazz scene the catalyst for racial mixing and comradeship. There's a lodge that's younger, but they're not growing. Growing up in North Carolina, he says, "We used to go there as teenagers, but as long as we behaved ourselves, they let us stay.". Thats precisely what drew Lauren Zuniga, a reedy 26-year-old who moved to Seattle from rural Kansas when her boyfriend got a job in tech. During the Great Depression, there was no time to reminisce about the excess of the Roaring Twentiesit was a time to look forward. Now they have to go down and around [the train tracks]. And the relatively small size of the Jackson Street jazz scene allowed the musicians, club owners, and club patrons to develop a sense of community. [6] While Jackson Street was always the heart of Seattles jazz scene, the nightlight extended to semi-legal roadhouses (freestanding nightclubs located on the outskirts of town) where alcohol and jazz flowed freely. Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Top panorana, Indiana Elks Club, bottom, the Ballard Elks Club through the years. I dont want to sit in a rocking chair. By 1910, Elks done away with almost all of the ritual including secret handshakes and passwords and settled into the function they held for much of the 20th century: a group of (white) men, initiated only upon recommendation from another member of the lodge, who paid yearly dues, enjoyed lavish facilities built with those dues, and donated time and money to local, state, and national charities. [19] de Barros, 38-29. How The Little Red Hen has survived for 50 years in Green Lake. A year later, the Northwest Enterprise reported another Sunday morning raid, this one on December 30, 1934: [5] de Barros, 1-2. Fraternal organizations have always met specific cultural needs providing a space for men as women entered the public sphere at the turn of the 19th century, and a return to the brotherhood of military service after both world wars. And here at the Elks, I dont ever have to worry about my drink being spiked, or my purse being stolen, or guys harassing me., A man one seat down, silent our entire conversation, speaks up, his eyes still focused on the Mariners game in front of him: And if you ever do have problems, you know, you can count on us.. Considering the location, I thought the price was, Audrea H. said: Great room for a great price. Such is the story of Seattle, a city that's seen its multigenerational African-American population dissipate, rendering such historically Black neighborhoods as the Central Area and Columbia City virtually unrecognizable to anyone who was around to witness what they were like before the 21st century. 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