n 1953 businessman Buford Seals announced plans to build a Western-themed shopping center, Frontier Village, on US 99 in the Seattle neighborhood of Georgetown. Commercial artist Lewis Nasmyth (1923-2016) was hired to design the center’s gas station, something “really, really different,” he later recalled, to grab motorists’ attention. Lewis said it took just 15 minutes to draw an idea that was instantly approved: a gas station office beneath a giant cowboy hat, and two bathrooms shaped like giant cowboy boots.