A little over sixty years ago Manning’s Coffee Cafeteria became LOWELL’S Restaurant, when the Manning’s decided to concentrate solely on selling coffee and Reid Lowell bought their flagship Pike Place Market location as they disbanded their 20+ cafeterias up and down the west coast. To this day we’ll occasionally have grandparents bring in their grandchildren and reminisce over fresh blueberry pancakes about old Seattle, while watching the cargo ships coming into port and the ferries head across Elliot Bay towards their various destinations.