A pixieish Gail Price lingered near her good friend Julius Pierpont Patches at the Museum of History and Industry, close enough to listen to his deep calming voice, but not to get in the way of his ...

Seattle Center hosted its official 50th anniversary celebration Saturday, but the people waiting in line – one that grew hundreds larger by the time doors opened at 10:30 – had gone there to celebrate ...

Northwest residents are saying goodbye to Chris Wedes, also known as J.P. Patches, the man who delighted Seattle-area children for decades as the star clown on “The J.P. Patches Show. Wedes died at ...

Hundreds of people expressed their affection for Seattle icon J. P. Patches as he made his final appearance at the Evergreen State Fair over the weekend. I didn’t grow up in the Northwest, but anyone ...

It took six years to get a Patches Pal plate through the Legislature. It honors the state’s beloved clown, who lived in Edmonds. EDMONDS — Some people say any clown can be a politician, but it took ...

After the beloved J.P. Patches statue was recently vandalized in Fremont, the Seattle community is rallying for repairs. Someone inked out J.P. Patches and his sidekick Gertrude in black paint, ...

People started flocking to Fremont well before noon, and when local TV icons J.P. Patches and Gertrude arrived shortly after 1 p.m. for the unveiling of a statue in their honor, roughly 1,500 people ...

EDMONDS — Shelling out big bucks for a license plate has never been so fun. Several bids already top $1,000 in an online auction for 20 of the new Patches Pal specialty car plates with beloved TV ...

J.P. Patches was a children’s television clown known for making people laugh. But what happened to his statue in Seattle’s Fremont neighborhood is nothing to chuckle at. It’s been defaced- again.

More than two decades have passed since Chris Wedes filmed the last J.P. Patches show on KIRO/7. Though you wouldn't have known that Monday the way a city councilwoman dressed in a J.P. and Gertrude T ...

J.P. Patches was a clown portrayed by Seattle entertainer Chris Wedes. The J.P. Patches Show was one of the longer-running locally-produced children's television programs in the United States, having ...