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They make rich drinks from freshly roasted coffee beans.

On the road to West Seattle’s Fauntleroy Ferry Terminal, this is a versatile recreational find for those looking for hilly trails, picnics by the water, or even a dip in Colman Pool.

Linda Derschang, a local business owner, created a hip bar for locals in 1994 that tended at the time to be rock stars and their managers. Offers mixed drinks and beer, and decent food.

The shop carries an assortment of designer-class merchandise such as toothbrushes from Italy, imported soaps and handbags, and novelty greeting cards. Most of the commodities are made locally, and the owner also sponsors art openings every first Thursday of the month.

Has an independent cinema and studio for incubating new work.

The most tolerant venue for art openings, film, open mics, tea, or just lounging around with neighborhood youth.

This eatery combines American staples at the busy take-out window with a bar and a restaurant inside.

The museum, near Alki Beach, takes local history seriously, as it marks the location where Captain Folger steered his schooner Exact in 1851, and brought to the region the families of Seattle’s earliest pioneers, the Arthur A. Denny party. The Log House Museum lets you rediscover the history of the Duwamish Peninsula with an orientation center and exhibits that preserve the community’s legacy, speaker programs, and special events.

The hip and fashionable appeal for retro housewares and furniture with unusual designs is still at its apex in Seattle. Includes merchandise either designed in the 1950s and 1960s or influenced by those bygone eras.

When timber baron Frederick Weyerhaeuser purchased nearly a million acres of railroad land in 1900, Seattle’s mushrooming logging industry turned a corner for even more rapid growth and exploitation of natural resources. Until then, entrepreneurs such as Henry Yesler ruled the wharf, and erected the pioneer town out of lumber from ancient old growth forests.