Ivar Haglund

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name=Ivar Haglund


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caption="Keep Clam"
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birth_date=March 21, 1905
birth_place=Seattle, Washington
death_date=January 30, 1985
death_place=Seattle, Washington
death_cause=myocardial infarction
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nationality=United States
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known_for=Folksinger, restaurateur
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title="Flounder" of Ivar's
Port Commissioner of Seattle
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Ivar Haglund (21 March 1905 – 30 January 1985) was a Seattle folk singer and the "flounder" [ [http://www.ivars.net/Carte_Clam_home/carteclam.html Ivar’s Carte Clam Card] , Ivar's restaurants official site. Accessed January 29, 2008.] of Ivar's.Paul Dorpat, [http://www.historylink.org/output.cfm?file_id=2499 Haglund, Ivar (1905-1985)] , HistoryLink, June 20, 2000. Accessed January 29, 2008.]

Haglund came from an old Seattle family: his maternal grandparents had purchased Alki Point in 1868 from Seattle pioneer Doc Maynard. His mother died of starvation when he was only three, while under treatment by Linda Hazzard, a so-called fasting specialist. He himself was treated by "Dr." Hazzard several times even after his mother's death. [Kathrine Beck, [http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=7955 Hazzard, Linda Burfield (1867-1938): Fasting Proponent and Killer] HistoryLink, October 26, 2006. Accessed January 29, 2008.]

In 1938, he opened Seattle's first aquarium along with a fish and chips counter on Pier 54. In 1946, he opened a full restaurant there, Ivar's Acres of Clams, which with the fish and chip counter survives to this day (although they have been thoroughly remodeled). He coined its motto, "Keep Clam." He expanded the fine dining and fish and chips restaurants into a regional chain.

After his neighbor on Pier 56 put up a sign reading "Don't Feed Sea Gulls, Health Regulation" in 1971, Haglund responded with his own sign encouraging customers to feed the seagulls.

In 1976, Haglund bought the Smith Tower, a Seattle landmark that was once the tallest building in North America west of the Mississippi River. In 1983, he was elected port commissioner after filing as a prank. He died of a heart attack just over a year later.

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* [http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=2499 Article about Ivar Haglund on "historylink.org"]
* [http://www-world.cac.washington.edu/alumni/columns/dec99/images/haglund.jpgPhoto of Ivar Haglund] on the site of his "alma mater", the University of Washington (class of 1928).
* [http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiOLDSETLR;ttROSINBOW.html "Old Settler's Song" or "Acres of Clams"] . The former Washington State Song after which Haglund named one of his restaurants.
* [http://youtube.com/watch?v=TWICj1i9_Ds "The Old Settler"] . Performed by The Iconics with John Roderick of The Long Winters at the Pike Place Market's 100-year Anniversary Concert
* [http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=sound01m0&date=20030101 Some of Ivar's 1950s radio ads] .