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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

SEATTLE — He was Seattle's favorite clown. J.P. Patches was a fixture on KIRO-TV from 1958 to 1981. And the man behind the makeup, Chris Wedes, continued to make public appearances for decades after ...

When news broke that beloved local clown J.P. Patches passed away Sunday, fans turned "Late for the Interurban" - the statue built in his honor in 2008 in Fremont - into a makeshift memorial. Chris ...

Alan Smith of Enumclaw drove down to Centralia on Saturday to take delivery of the newest addition to his collection of treasures: an old peanut butter jar for which he paid $204.28 on eBay. But this ...

A public celebration to honor the life and legacy of the beloved local celebrity clown, J.P. Patches will be held on Saturday, September 8th at McCaw Hall at the Seattle Center. The ceremony will be ...

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 ...