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

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

By: Humu's Brother: Booby

Humu's Brother: Booby — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 04:28:07 +0000

Where the frothy brine and octopedal minions of the oceans dark and murky depths meet white linens and wall mounted harpoons, that is where you’ll find Sea Galley… Or maybe it was just somewhere on north Aurora.
I was always very intrigued by the bar section off to the right as you entered the restaurant. I also remember it how you do, Michelle, like you were being led into a labyrinth. I think that was probably the greatest part of it. The subdued lighting and all the crap mounted on the walIs.
I remember I had sore legs once while we were eating and dad said “Thoses are just growing pains” The implication probably being that it was my birthday, and I was growing up, which of course can only lead to pain, withering and death. “But until then, kid, you’ve got tonight; and tonight, you’ve got CRAB LEGS!” F#*k YEAH!!!

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:07:01 +0000

I’ve got bad news about Pizza & Pipes on Homestead Road: it’s now Pizza Party. “Same people, same pizza, no pipes” their website proclaims — more as warning than advertisement, I’d think. The website does have an interesting page about Pizza & Pipes restaurants, though, and it turns out the Seattle restaurant was the same chain as the Santa Clara spot, and Santa Clara was the original location. Neat!

By: cleen

cleen — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:52:50 +0000

pizza and pipes is still there! it is on the corner of a strip mall in santa clara. it is at the intersection of lawrence expressway and homestead road. i grew up in that place, we went EVERY week. the one caveat, though, is that around the time “we built this city” by starship came out, they remodeled the place to have a race car theme. we started not going so much after that. however, the place still retains the same name, and im really curious to see what its like.

you guys should go check it out! it is in the same complex as contantino’s grocery store, and across from where bullwinkle’s used to be (now it is some lame dance club called avion or something).

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 17:10:18 +0000

Pizza & Pipes is long gone, I’m afraid — I think the spot is now a Blockbuster Video? I just loved Pizza & Pipes. Every time we went, I asked the organist to play Clementine. I liked the song okay, but really it was just the only song I could think of. I loved those bubbles that went everywhere; I saw enough of the Lawrence Welk show to think that it was just a standard part of any musical performance, but I still thought they were neat.

A friend of mine who grew up in Phoenix told me about a pizza & pipes place there that’s still operating called Organ Stop — it sounds like it’s a lot more elaborate than the Pizza & Pipes in Seattle. I’ve heard there’s a pizza & pipes place here in the Bay Area, too, but I don’t know the particulars.

By: william

william — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:26:10 +0000

ah..i remember those commercials, but i don’t recall if i ever went there. in fact until this post i think i may have had them confused with red lobster(shame, i know). for us as kids, the be-all-in-all of restaurants was farrell’s. part excitment, and part fear of being embarrassed to death. and of course when you lined up to leave you wandered through that aisle of tempting candy(and man, those jaw breakers lasted forever!). this all makes me wonder, whatever happened to pizza pipes? is it still there?

By: Hanford

Hanford — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:57:16 +0000

I can imagine a Sea Galley ad meeting, where after a few lame ad concepts are pitched, the president of Sea Galley exclaims: “Damn it, if there’s one thing I want communicated in our ads, it’s that Sea Galley’s got Crab Legs”.

And that’s why they say it 14 times in the commerical.