This week in history: Loggers gone wild

• 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.