The Bob Santos Community Room will be a free community gathering space. Cultural and art events, movie and boardgame nights, educational talks, advocacy group meetings, and Wing Luke Museum tour group reflections are just a few examples of what we anticipate happening here. We expect the space will host important cultural and community events associated with Pride, Lunar New Year, AANHPI Heritage Month, Eid, Diwali, Golden Week, and more.
We aim to “pass the megaphone” on to future generations of advocates by creating an intentional space for intergenerational learning, education, solidarity, and collective action.

The Uncle Bob Lobby Exhibit will tell the story of Bob Santos’ activism, key historic stories of the CID, descriptive artifacts, and a map of landmarks in the neighborhood that visitors can utilize for a self-guided tour. Additionally, friends and family of Bob will be invited periodically to share stories and show items related to his story and legacy.
A changing exhibit of photographs featuring life in the CID, Through the Eyes of The Tiger, will also be featured in the lobby of Uncle Bob’s Place.

The Four Seas restaurant (open 1962 – 2018) was a home to Uncle Bob and other key activists, local sports teams, and too many local families to count. Collective action efforts were planned, holidays were celebrated, and many stories were shared here. The Four Seas exhibit will feature the Four Seas historic neon sign, stories from employees and guests, and its history.

The back wall of the community room space will feature a 7’ tall by 11’ wide, bright collage portrait mural by renowned Filipino artist, Eliseo Art Silva.

An outdoor 16-foot square structural brick column will be wrapped with a life sized, weatherproof mural featuring the ‘Humbows, Not Hotdogs!’ advocacy campaign Bob led to fight the building of the Kingdome stadium and to mitigate its harmful impacts on the neighborhood. This cornerstone will connect the efforts of today’s neighborhood advocates to their predecessors who also fought for the same vision: a neighborhood where low income, API, immigrant, and refugee community members can thrive.

The floor of the Community Room and the exterior patio leading into the space will feature terrazzo floor artwork inspired by the map of the International District and the walking tour Uncle Bob famously used to turn visitors, politicians, business owners, and more, into invested advocates of the Chinatown International District. Printed fliers will lead people on their own Uncle Bob’s walking tour of the neighborhood.

An aspect of the Lobby Exhibit will be a large map of the CID highlighting the walking tour Bob Santos would utilize to educate people about the history of the neighborhood and increase investment in it. This will connect thematically to the Terrazzo Floor project, and we will also provide printed guides for visitors, student groups, and others to have a self-guided walking tour inspired by Uncle Bob’s famous tour that highlighted community led accomplishments and colorful neighborhood stories

Drag and Drop Creative is designing artwork which will cover drop-down shades installed over the glass windows in Uncle Bob’s Community Room.