His parents , of German ancestry , immigrated to Seattle from Russia in 1890 , the year after the Great Seattle Fire when the city was booming with reconstruction . Bauer 's father , Jacob , worked variously as the manager of a plum orchard , the caretaker of a country club , and as a carpenter on Seattle 's first world 's fair , the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition
Great Seattle Fire
Great Seattle Fire
Eddie Bauer (outdoorsman)