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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 02:30:00

The name came from a five-by-eight-foot oil painting of a tractor hanging over the bar - and the bar it named became the Northwest's Americana headquarters. The Tractor Tavern at 5213 Ballard Avenue NW in Seattle occupies a 1902 building that once held a Scandinavian dance hall and the New Melody Tavern. Owner Dan Cowan took the room over in August 1993 - briefly as the Old Town Music Hall - and renamed it in 1994 after bartender Dan Amell's painting, on a Ballard Avenue then so desolate that, ...