Alice B. Toklas Lived in Seattle Before She Met Gertrude Stein

Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein walking their poodle, Basket, a few years after Stein’s novel The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas made them both famous. Carl Mydans / Getty
Alice B. Toklas lived in Seattle once.She moved here in 1890, with her family, from San Francisco. Alice's father, Ferdinand, half of Toklas, Singerman and Company, had opened the "San Francisco Store," purveyors of fine men's clothing, in Seattle in 1877 then commuted between Seattle and San Francisco for years. Th