OK Hotel

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The OK Hotel was a bar and music venue located under the viaduct in Seattle's Pioneer Square district. The club's 15-year-plus life span came to an end with the Nisqually earthquake of February 28, 2001, which damaged numerous buildings in the historic district.

Most widely recognized as a prominent location in the movie Singles (1992), the OK Hotel was one of several active rock venues during the celebrated local scene of the late eighties. Local bands such as Mudhoney, Tad, Mother Love Bone, Soundgarden and Nirvana (including the first performance of "Smells Like Teen Spirit") played at the OK Hotel, as well as touring punk, rock and jazz artists from around the country. It is mentioned in Thanx, the twelfth track on Sublime's debut album 40 Oz. To Freedom.

In its final years, the OK Hotel had become a treasured home for Seattle's lively creative music scene, featuring such artists as Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz with Zony Mash and Ponga, Robin Holcomb, the Living Daylights, Amy Denio and the Black Cat Orchestra.

It now is an Affordable Housing Apartment Building, run by American Management Services a.k.a Pinnacle Realty.