Limited by teetotaling, Northwest loggers got creative

Here's a look at some of the April historical events in Washington, sourced from state history encyclopedia HistoryLink and media archives.

April 15, 1934: The Blue Moon Tavern in the University District opened its doors, which would welcome Theodore Roethke, Tom Robbins, members of the Weather Underground and (rumor has it) Allen Ginsberg and Thomas Pynchon.

• On the bar's 70th birthday in 2004, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer described it as a "​​hangout for the literati and lowlifes."

April 15, 1854: Sawamish County, now known as Mason County, was established by the Washington Territorial Legislature. The county seat — on a claim belonging to a Baptist minister — was alcohol-free, so local loggers traveled two miles away to a floating saloon to get their kicks.

Fun fact: You may have heard "It's daylight in the swamp!" as a morning greeting, but Pacific Northwest loggers likely heard it first.

• The phrase comes from a logging camp wake-up call during " a thumping great and wildly wonderful, if tragically heedless, era in the timber ," wrote Stewart H. Holbrook in an October 1958 story for American Heritage magazine.

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