Comments on: We’ve Got Crab Legs! Sea Galley!

By: Taisha

Taisha — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 06:03:26 +0000

I worked for Sea Galley in Spokane, Wa across from now called arena. I miss the customers and my co workers. It was the best in it’s time and should have made it! Wish it was still around…..guess I gotta make that trio to Yakima someday.

By: JO

JO — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:28:01 +0000

Had dinner at the Anchorage Sea Galley one week ago and at the Yakima Sea Galley just a few hours ago. I’ll take Anchorage’s any day. At least they serve Oysters Rockefeller.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 06:50:48 +0000

Of course I remember the song! I was 12 in 1980, and I think anytime you had a group of boys together, running around, that song was bound to come up and singing ensued.
I also remember when they built the Sea Galley in Puyallup. For Puyallup, and for that time, it was a BIG deal. My sister in law went to a huge audition for a cocktail waitress position. I remember she got the job and for a week I would grill her on every item on the menu. The restaurant opened, the wait times were long, but it was the place to be in that little town. The last time I was there, the building was still standing but the Sea Galley had been closed for years.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:36:27 +0000

LOL I was just thinking about Sea Galley and how much I loved it as a child… Haven’t thought about it in years! Now I have that stupid crab leg song stuck in my head – haha! I, too, remember “performing” that commercial with my little friends in Salem, OR. Remember the birthday song that they sang – always ended with “stand up, stand up, stand up and show us your face – your face!” … And they would sing it until you stood up?

By: Nicole

Nicole — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 16:17:44 +0000

LOL! Thanks for this- my husband and I were just talking about Sea Galley- we had one in Fort Collins, Colorado-and it was SO popular! I remember convincing my brother that we were actually at sea (he was 2 or 3.) They had an awesome salad bar. If I’m ever in Yakima, I’m definitely going to go!

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:15:59 +0000

I am really surprised at how much everybody on here seems to have loved the crab legs commercials, because for me, every time one of these came on TV, I RAN and hid behind the couch and covered my eyes and plugged my ears until it was over! I was completely TERRIFIED by the crab legged chefs! They gave me incredible nightmares.

Growing up in Kennewick, Washington, our Sea Galley was right down the street from our house (literally two blocks away). A year after these commercials came out, and after a pep talk from my dad, we had dinner there one night. After we got there, my dad mentioned to the waiter that I was massively afraid of their commercials, and the waiter, thinking he was being playful, said to me “Oh, not to worry – the crab leg chefs are in the kitchen, cooking – they won’t come out here.”

I ran out the door, sprinting the two blocks back to the house, vowing never to go back.

Funny thing is, years later, my first job was as a bus boy at the same Sea Galley! John Sanchez was the Manager there, and he was great. I still remember him asking me during my interview: “Are you a mover and a shaker? ‘Cause that’s what I need – a mover and a shaker.” I learned the value of work in that place – lessons still resonating today.

By: Rhonda

Rhonda — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 01:53:31 +0000

We still visit the Sea Galley in Yakima whenever we get a chance!!!! We LOVE THE FOOD and the Decor. takes me back in time to when I was a kid in Port Townsend Wa where we also had one…

By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 06 May 2010 19:16:15 +0000

All the Sea Galleys in the Denver area became Stuart Anderson’s Black Angus House. None of the quality for most of the price. They bring the suck.

By: Brianna

Brianna — Sun, 17 May 2009 04:19:56 +0000

Hey! Actually my aunt and uncle own the only Sea Galley Left in Yakima WA. I dont know how old this blog is but she was showing me these old commercials and I just got into reading all the fan mail on the web for these commercials. she and my uncle are trying to put these back on the air with a little updating but they are afraid of being sued for it. sigh… anyway haha just thought i should write you and tell you what a kick it was reading your blog and thanks Sea Galley still has the BEST seafood ever… i love it every time i come visit them i get dinner for free YUMM!!! Ne way again thanks!

By: C

Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:19:45 +0000

Hey, I actually work at one of the two Sea Galleys left in the world…in Yakima WA. Its still full of nets and fish hanging everywhere, the same decor decorates the wall as it did 30 years ago. Its off I-80, across from the Super 8! Haha! Business is doing great there…so I dont see it closing anytime soon.

By: Bear Silber

Bear Silber — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 04:13:02 +0000

Hey all. Pizza & Pipes in Santa Clara is still here but we’ve changed our name to Pizza Party….and sadly we’ve gotten rid of the pipes

Check out our website for our full menu and links to our Twitter, Facebook and PizzaCams (you can watch live on your iPhone as we make your pies!)
http://www.pizzapartyonline.com

By: JB

JB — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:51:12 +0000

All the Skipper’s are pretty much gone (the last one I remember going to was in 2007 in Auburn and I told myself that would be the last time, it was). The quality really went downhill pretty drastically. Ivar’s is still around (The Captains Table on Elliott has been gone for awhile), still good, a little pricey. Many of the Keg restaurants in the area (they replaced Sea Galley) are gone or are closing now. Excluding the Crab Legs, the closest thing left around here to Sea Galley (even though it has a different theme) is Barnaby’s at Southcenter.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 06:20:45 +0000

Is there anyone in the Pacific Northwest who doesn’t remember the Sea Galley “crab legs”
jingle? There was a Sea Galley in Spokane, right across the street from the TV station
where I worked, and while I don’t remember the food being all that spectacular, it was a
great place for happy hour. I’ve lived in PA for the past 19 years, and it sure made me
feel nostalgic to watch the old Sea Galley ads on YouTube, along with the KST-Washington
news bumpers. (Speaking of seafood, whatever happened to Skipper’s?? They were great! Is
Ivar’s still around?)

By: John Hoback

John Hoback — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 00:25:14 +0000

Take a step back in time, visit the Sea Galley in Anchorage Alaska. Hosting over 10,000 guests a week, seating over 600, with two “all you can eat” salad bars (with baby corns). We are proud to support most of Sea Galleys original decore and menu items. The restaurant is run by a Manager that has worked for Sea Galley over thirty years. Sea Galley Alaska Now owns the Sea Galley Restaurant Names and Trademarks as well as the “Weve Got Crab Legs” trade marks. Come on in and see the old commercial story boards on the walls, nautical decore, complete with fresh oyster bar, fresh dessert bar, the old docks and village overhead.

Professional friendly staff, many over twenty years with Sea galley. We are still as fun a restaurant as Sea Galley ever was. Want to talk Alaskan fishing you have come to the right place.

Yes… We do have Crab Lags…

By: mikey

mikey — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 20:08:41 +0000

I am SOOOO glad I'm not the only one who not only remembers this commercial, but LOVES it.

By: Ken

Ken — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 01:36:05 +0000

I spent 3 years managing the Sea Galley in Walla Walla, it was indeed a great place to be at the time. I started with them in Yakima so I know the store pretty well. Your right on the changes, that ruined the whole deal, it all started with the stripped uniforms and went downhill from there! I was just at the Yakima one a year ago and it is still as good as ever.

By: Erlane

Erlane — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:36:54 +0000

Hello,
There is a SeaGalley in Yakima Wa. The only one left other than Anchorage. It is all original with the nets and booths.
It still has the salad bar and runs the Crab Legs commercial on the local radio and sometims of the T.V. If you are ever
in Eastern Washington its right off the freeway. They have the BEST appetizers especially the Cheese Sticks. The original
crab legs are sometimes worn to the Basketball games in Yakima to hand out coupons. Look up their webpage at seagally.com !!!!

By: Hanford

Hanford — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:57:02 +0000

I watched a few minutes of “Deadliest Catch” on Discovery Channel and, upon hoisting up a trap filled to the brim with crab, the Captain said “We got crab legs! Sea Galley”. Milk came out my nose. Which was strange because I wasn’t drinking anything at the time. Hmm. Now I wondering if that really was milk.

By: Captain Career

Captain Career — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 23:27:01 +0000

Sea Galley had a great business, service and marketing model. Good food, great family environment and just plain enjoyable. Truly an all around treat. And, a good bargain. And, a fun place to go for everybody. Every lunch and dinner, every day the place was packed, even during Seattle’s slow economy.

Then . . . the management went crazy, or got greedy, or something and decided to go “yuppie” (an 80′s term) by totally changing their decor, making it more “elegant”; changing the menu to include haute cuisine and postage stamp portions; took away the salad bar; made it too stuffy to bring kids; hiked the prices way up.

The first time we went into one of the remodeled units (Totem Lake) was the last time we walked-in the door. Within weeks of making these changes you could go into a Sea Galley on a Friday evening and shoot a cannon through the place without hitting anyone.

To my experience, no one has come close to duplicating Sea Galley. Unfortunate indeed!

By: stacya

stacya — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 16:46:58 +0000

Hey! I married snow crab. My friends that grew up in the Northwest had a good time mocking me for getting hitched to a crab legs guy. Pretty funny. Thanks for posting this, it gave us a good laugh. Cheers,
Mrs. Crablegs

By: Lisette

Lisette — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 04:44:35 +0000

I grew up in Seattle (born in 1970) and DEFINITELY remember this commercial. In fact, I had the privilege as a young child of actually KNOWING one of the crab legs guys (!!!!). I still do know him as a matter of fact. Just tonight I thought “if You Tube has the crab legs commercial on it, then You Tube is truly a monster phenomenon”. Well there it was. And then I found this post, and it’s comforting to know I’m not the only one who loved this ad.

By: mickeba

mickeba — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:19:11 +0000

Another one to recall was Ivar’s!

mickeba

By: mickeba

mickeba — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 06:15:08 +0000

I also remember Sea Galley, fondly, but remember with more reverence,
Skippers! You remember Skippers. All you can eat fish and shrimp at a
very reasonable price! Tasty too!

mickeba

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:38:00 +0000

Thanks for the heads-up, Tamara! Do you know if the existing one in Anchorage is dark & nautical, with nets & pulleys & floats all over the place?

By: Tamara

Tamara — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:33:12 +0000

I grew up going to Sea Galley in Anchorage, AK. It is still up and running today.
Loved the food and the comercials. There is actually a Sea Galley in Yakima, Wa. Haven’t
been there but just an FYI