Slide Show: Twin Peaks Mania, 25 Years Later
May 22, 2015
Photograph by Margaret Seiler
Now the luxe Salish Lodge and Spa, the former Snoqualmie Falls Lodge was famous for its pancakes well before it was used as the exterior of the Great Northern Hotel, which Sheriff Harry Truman assured Agent Cooper would be a clean place, reasonably price
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An observation deck for the lower view of Snoqualmie Falls is accessed by a new boardwalk built by Puget Sound Energy, though plenty of scofflaws scramble over the rocks instead for a closer look. No bodies of homecoming queens wrapped in plastic sighted
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The menu in the Salish Lodge’s Attic bar includes the tasty, tea-like, gin-and-honey Dale Cooper cocktail, though on the show he rarely picks up more than a beer.
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Exteriors for the Roadhouse were shot in nearby Fall City, where today the Fall City Roadhouse & Inn is a family-friendly bar and grill with six rooms for lodging. There’s occasional live music, but don’t expect to see Julee Cruise.
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The Bookhouse exterior sits on a private lot behind the Fall City Roadhouse. Looks like a fine place to interrogate a no-good French-Canadian like Bernard Renault.
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The bridge crossed by Ronette Pulaski sits upriver, near where Reinig Road intersects 396th Drive SE. (The Packard Sawmill and sheriff’s office exteriors are nearby, off 396th, but the property’s current occupant, the Dirt Fish Rally School, has the plac
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Today, Ronette’s bridge is part of the 31-mile Snoqualmie Valley Trail.
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Twin Peaks–inspired graffiti on Ronette’s bridge.
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Twin Peaks–inspired graffiti on Ronette’s bridge.
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Twin Peaks–inspired graffiti on Ronette’s bridge.
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Twin Peaks–inspired graffiti on Ronette’s bridge.
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Twin Peaks–inspired graffiti on Ronette’s bridge.
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Twin Peaks–inspired graffiti on Ronette’s bridge.
Photography by Margaret Seiler
Twin Peaks–inspired graffiti on Ronette’s bridge.
Photography by Margaret Seiler
For many years Twede’s Café in North Bend was called the Mar-T, but to Twin Peaks fans it will always be the Double R. The café was used for exteriors and (in the pilot only) interiors for Norma Jennings’s homey diner, which must be where pies go when th
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A fire nearly destroyed the restaurant in 2000, and the reconstructed interior no longer resembles the Double R. But Twede’s embraces its Twin Peaks fame with a hallway full of collectors’ items, as well as branded mugs and T-shirts, and the promise of—e
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A shot on Twede’s wall of David Lynch and Kyle McLachlan on set.
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Locals say they get more European “Peakers” than American ones, as the notes posted at Twede’s suggest.
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An opening-credits mural decorates the back of Twede’s. The Mount Si viewpoint itself is just north of the river along Reinig Road.
