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Seattle Restaurateur, David Cohn, Dies at 85.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, September, 2003

By Beth Kaiman, The Seattle Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Sep. 10--David Cohn's career as one of Seattle's premier restaurateurs started with The Barb, a post-World War II, times-of-plenty embodiment of what was good and straightforward about American cooking.

At the first location in 1951, at Fourth Avenue and Seneca Street in Seattle, that meant cafeteria-style eating and barbecue sandwiches, a place where the chef wouldn't carve the next slices of ham or turkey until the customer gave the word.

Soon there were better and bigger Barbs, a dozen or so in the Puget Sound area, with a coffee shop open for breakfast and lunch, complete with a counter for those eating alone, and a carpeted dining room, adorned with a trickling...

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