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 ...

Fremont’s iconic clown statue has been defaced—and the community is pooling together to fix it. Someone painted over the face of the clown and his sidekick, Gertrude, according to the official website ...

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 ...

Bill Grief of Brier sent us this photo of him sitting with the legendary J.P. Patches at the Fishermen's Fall Festival at Fisherman's Terminal on Saturday. The Seattle icon performed for the last time ...

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 ...

Hundreds of people packed McCaw Hall Saturday morning to celebrate and honor the life and legacy of J.P. Patches. For more than 50 years Chris Wedes, the man behind the red nose, spread laughter and ...

It may not be as important as Nov. 13, 1851 when the pioneer Denny Party landed at what's now Alki, or April 21, 1962 when the Seattle World's Fair officially opened, but Feb. 10, 1958 nonetheless ...

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 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.

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 ...