It's been about four years since the people of Seattle said goodbye to a restaurant that had been on Elliott Avenue since 1914.
"It's a great place, it really has been," one customer said. But after the doors closed in 2016, the Shanty Cafe never reopened and Sunday morning, the building that once housed this piece of Seattle history was reduced to ash.
"I'm just shocked at how thorough, I mean, that it's totally gone,” said Greg Shaw, who frequently visited the Shanty Café. “I thought there would be more left of it than that."
Shaw lives in Magnolia and says he used to come here with his mom all the time for dinner.
He drove over later in the morning to snap some pictures of the rubble.