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63 unusual facts about Seattle


Alejandro G. Abadilla

After graduation, he went abroad and worked for a small printing shop in Seattle, Washington.

Anders Beer Wilse

He did not find work in the beginning, but eventually settled in Seattle working for the United States Geological Survey.

Anna Herr Clise

This facility remained in Queen Ann Hill until 1953, when it moved to its current location in Seattle’s Laurelhurst neighborhood.

Armageddon's Children

A group of children, the Ghosts, hide out in the ruins of downtown Seattle.

Bell Apartments

The Bell Apartments, also known as the Austin A. Bell Building is a historic building located at 2326 1st Avenue in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle Washington.

Blouson

In 1993, the blouson was worn as the national costume of the United States for the APEC meeting held in Seattle, Washington.

Bruce Harrell

Bruce is married to Joanne Harrell and they are raising their family in the Mt. Baker neighborhood.

Bullitt Center

The Bullitt Center is a commercial office building at the northern edge of the Central District neighborhood, near Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington.

Center Park

Center Park, located at 2121 26th Avenue South, is a subsidized high-rise building complex located in the Mt. Baker neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, designed to provide living accommodation to physically or mentally challenged individuals and their caretakers.

Charlene Strong

In December of that year, Strong's partner of nine years, Kate Fleming, died suddenly, when a flash flood trapped her inside her Madison Valley, Seattle, basement recording studio during the Hanukkah Eve Wind Storm.

Charlie Chong

Charlie Chong (October 13, 1926 – April 26, 2007) was a populist Seattle political figure and activist on behalf of the Pike Place Market and against the marginalization of West Seattle.

Conucopia

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Cascadia Con in Seattle, USA

Easy Street Records

Easy Street operated two stores - the first, located in West Seattle, opened in 1988; the second, in the Queen Anne neighborhood followed in 2002, but the only one currently running is the West Seattle location.

First Hill Streetcar

The line will connect the Capitol Hill, First Hill, and the International District neighborhoods in central Seattle.

FreedomHEC

The first FreedomHEC conference was held May 26–27, 2006, in Seattle.

Gatewood

Gatewood, Seattle, a neighborhood in West Seattle, Seattle, Washington, United States

George Kinnear

In 1911, shortly before his death, he published his own account of the events, which Bagley described as a "correct account of the whole anti-Chinese trouble", contrasting it to earlier "inaccurate accounts".

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Guy Carleton Phinney

In the Magnolia neighborhood, Carleton Park was named for him by his son.

Handango

Bowman started PocketGear in 1999 when he was still a teenager, selling it to the company that is now Motricity, but then buying back the smart phones business in 2008 when Motricity moved from Durham to the Seattle area.

Hillman City

To the east, Seward Park and its surrounding wealthier neighborhoods are a ten-minute walk up South Orcas Street.

Interbay

Interbay, Seattle, a neighborhood within the City of Seattle, Washington, United States

Jon St. Ables

After unsuccessful approaches to the The Walt Disney Company, the family moved to Seattle, where St. Ables worked in the art department at Boeing.

Josiah Collins

He was one of the cofounders of the first golf club in Seattle at Laurelhurst in 1895.

Kathleen Christison

At a conference entitled “I Am My Brother’s Keeper: Confronting Islamophobia” held at St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle on May 6–7, 2011, Christison stated that “The discourse in this country at the moment is very Islamophobic” and that the “anti-Muslim discourse,” is driven by “pressure from the pro-Israel lobby and Islamophobia lobby."

King County Water Taxi

Route 775 connects to the Admiral District and route 773 connects to the West Seattle Junction.

Kringle

The Ballard area of Seattle, Washington; Solvang, California; central Iowa; and Burr Ridge, Illinois are among other places to find kringles in the U.S.

Lake Washington Boulevard

Just north of E. Roanoke Street, the boulevard turns due west and changes from Lake Washington Boulevard E. to E. Lake Washington Boulevard, following the city's street name designation system.

Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center

Langston Hughes Performing Arts Institute (LHPAI) is an arts venue in Seattle, Washington, USA, operated by City of Seattle Office of Arts and Culture and named after African-American writer Langston Hughes.

Low Income Housing Institute

Greenwood House in Crown Hill is home to adult women transitioning from the street.

Lynnwood Link Extension

Lynnwood Link Extension is a northern extension of the Northgate Link light rail line that will connect the Northgate to Lynnwood.

Magnolia Bridge

In 1910, when a bridge was first proposed for this location, Queen Anne Hill and Magnolia were already connected by several trestles across Interbay, each spanning the railway that ran north-south through Interbay.

Matthews Beach Park

Matthews Beach Park is a 22 acre (0.9km²) park in the Matthews Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

Mickey's Speedway USA

As one of the drivers, including Disney characters such as Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy and Pete, the player races on tracks in the United States, based on locations such as New York, Alaska, Los Angeles, and Seattle, to find the Weasels and save Pluto.

MiKandi

Developed by MiKandi LLC, a Seattle-based company, MiKandi is the world's first and largest mobile porn app store.

Minami-Ibaraki Station

The shopping area around the stations include a few convenience stores, a Seattle's Best Coffee store, a couple of supermarkets and a post office.

Murder of Timothy Brenton

On the night of October 31, 2009, at approximately 10:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time (UTC-7), Brenton and his partner, trainee officer Britt Sweeney, were both sitting in their patrol car following a traffic stop at 29th Avenue South and East Yesler Way in the Central District.

The murder of Timothy Brenton occurred on October 31, 2009, in the Central District of Seattle, Washington, United States.

MV Tillikum

As of early 2008, she is serving the communities of Southworth, Vashon and Fauntleroy.

National Occupational Research Agenda

NIOSH sought additional aid through a series of public town meetings held in Chicago, Seattle, and Boston.

Nordnes Park

A totem pole given from Bergens twinned town Seattle in connection with Bergens 900 years celebration in 1970 is erected in the Nordnes Park.

North Admiral, Seattle

North Admiral (or simply the Admiral District) is the oldest neighborhood in West Seattle, Washington.

Open Circle Theater

After a year being itinerant, the company relocated to a space on the second floor of a building in the thriving neighborhood of Belltown, Seattle very close to downtown.

Robert Shannon

Shannon had a white mother and black father, and started fighting in the streets as a young boy in Seattle's predominately black Central District, where he found kids who would start fights with him because he was white.

Seattle Center Monorail

The Seattle Center Monorail is an elevated monorail line in Seattle, Washington, that runs a little under one mile along Fifth Avenue between Seattle Center in Lower Queen Anne and Westlake Center in Downtown.

Seattle Film Institute

SFI is located in the Capitol Hill district of Seattle, next to the downtown core and near Seattle University.

Shamiram Urshan

She married and moved to the United States in 1970, where she settled in Seattle.

She'll Take Romance

Linda Evans plays Jane McMillan, a Seattle TV meteorologist, Jane is assigned to host a contest to find the most romantic man in Puget Sound; Evans boyfriend played by Tom Skerritt is a nice but borish judge who spends most of the time on the sidelines.

Solstice Cyclists

The painting party took place this time in Belltown, meaning the cyclists had to ride a full three miles through the Seattle neighborhood of Queen Anne to get to Fremont.

Stanley Armour Dunham

They lived in an apartment in the Wedgewood Estates in the Wedgwood, Seattle neighborhood.

Surreal Software

The group began operating in 1995 in an office in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood.

The 5 Point Cafe

The 5 Point Cafe is a bar and 24-hour cafe and bar in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

The Keepers of the House

This infuriated Robert Howland, the eldest son of William and Margaret, who was living in obscurity in Seattle.

The Nona Tapes

The Nona Tapes follows aspiring journalist Nona Weisbaum (played by guitarist Jerry Cantrell) on her quest to "find some Seattle rock stars" for a breakthrough story.

The Off Hours

The film was shot in Seattle in Burien, South Park and Georgetown with many local enthusiasts supporting Griffiths.

Thrive Cafe

Thrive Cafe is a restaurant in Roosevelt, Seattle, Washington in the United States.

Tyree Scott Freedom School

A Black Panther Party tour of the Central District takes youth to the former headquarters of the party, exposes them to the Ten Point Platform, and gives them the opportunity to questions of Aaron Dixon, former Black Panther and founder of the Seattle chapter.

Victor Blanchard Scheffer

Scheffer received his bachelor of science in 1930, his master of science in 1932, and his doctorate in zoology in 1936 at the University of Washington in Seattle.

Victory Heights, Seattle

Victory Heights is a neighborhood in the Lake City district of Seattle, Washington.

Walter E. Mooney

The Aero Aces model club, of Seattle, Washington holds a Walt Mooney Memorial model airplane meet named in his honor.

Washington State Route 99

The tunnel carries SR 99 underneath the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle and onto Aurora Avenue North.

West Queen Anne School

The West Queen Anne School was a Seattle public elementary school located in the Queen Anne, Seattle neighborhood from 1896 to 1981 and is now high-end condominiums.

West Seattle Land and Improvement Company

The company purchased and replatted much of what later became the Admiral district.


1992 Seattle Seahawks season

The 1992 season was the first of three seasons in Seattle for head coach Tom Flores.

Asahel Curtis

He photographed historic events such as presidential visits, the building of the dams on the Columbia River, and Seattle's ambitious Denny Regrade project.

Barbara Tropp

Chef Nance Tourigny worked with Tropp in the early 90's and went on to establish her successful personal chef business in Seattle working for prominent clients like Craig McCaw.

Boeing E-6 Mercury

The first E-6 made its maiden flight from Boeing's Renton Factory on 19 February 1987, when it was flown to Boeing Field, Seattle, for fitment of mission avionics, being delivered to the Navy for testing on 22 July 1988.

Carkeek

Carkeek Park, 216-acre (87.1 ha) park located in the Broadview neighborhood of Seattle, Washington

Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon

During the 1940s, she worked as a reporter for the Chico Enterprise-Record, and during the 1950s, she worked as part of the editorial staff of two Seattle magazines.

Denio

Amy Denio (born 1961), Seattle (USA)-based multi-instrumental composer

Dorothy Harrell

She is also featured as one of the best shortstops to ever play the game with a 10-foot banner hanging at Safeco Field in Seattle, in between Roberto Clemente and Brooks Robinson banners.

Doug Cotler

Cotler’s musical career includes composing the symphony, “The Golem,” which was performed by Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra, performing country, pop and rock music with such well-known artists as John Denver, Jerry Jeff Walker and Mason Williams, and recording five original Jewish music albums.

Eagle Theatre

Eagles Auditorium Building, a seven story historic theatre and apartment building in Seattle, Washington

Edward C. Kilbourne

He also supported the YMCA after the original backer Dexter Horton had withdrawn his support and was involved with the Plymouth Congregational Church of Seattle.

El Centro de la Raza

Taco carts, trailers, trucks, and buses became common along Seattle's arterials, even in the traditionally Scandinavian Ballard neighborhood.

Elizabeth Chittick

Chittick was the first woman civilian administrator of the U.S. Naval Air Stations in Seattle, Washington and Banana River, Florida, the first woman to be a registered representative of the New York Stock Exchange, and the first female revenue collections officer with the Internal Revenue Service.

Félix Hernández

Hernández is also the Seattle Mariners Ambassador for the Pepsi Refresh Project, raising money for the Washington State Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Fred Anhalt

Most Anhalt apartments, especially those he built in Seattle's Capitol Hill, Seattle and Queen Anne neighborhoods such as Anhalt Arms (formerly Berkeley Court), feature landscaped interior courtyards.

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

Housed within the office complex are nearly 1,000,000 original design records detailing work on many of America’s most treasured landscapes including the U. S. Capitol and White House Grounds; Great Smoky Mountains and Acadia National Parks; Yosemite Valley; New York's Central Park; and whole park systems in cities such as Buffalo, Seattle, Boston and Louisville.

Harley Hunt

Hunt served as associate pastor of First Baptist Church of Port Angeles, Washington (1966–1968) and as senior pastor of Gregory Heights Baptist (now Burien Community) Church in Seattle, Washington (1968–1974), Clearfield Community Church in Clearfield, Utah (1974–1983), Emerald Baptist Church in Eugene, Oregon (1983–1985), and Grace Baptist Church in Tacoma, Washington (1994–2004).

Healthiest State in the Nation Campaign

Past issues have featured local celebrities like Suzy Preston, a winner on NBC’s The Biggest Loser and Seattle Seahawk Shaun Alexander.

Interstate 90 floating bridge

Interstate 90 floating bridge is the common name for the twin floating bridges that carry Interstate 90 across Lake Washington between Seattle and Mercer Island.

Joshua Caldwell

In addition to winning the MTV Movie Award for Best Film on Campus in 2006, The Beautiful Lie, starring Michaela McManus, was also an official selection at the Los Angeles International Short Film Festival, the One Reel Film Festival and the Seattle True Independent Film Festival (where it won the Classic Beauty Prize).

Kenneth B. Pyle

Kenneth B. Pyle (born April 20, 1936 in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania) is a Japan historian and professor of History and International Studies at the University of Washington Seattle campus.

Leo Calland

Calland was born in Ohio, and moved with his family as a child to the Seattle, Washington area, where he attended school in a log cabin on Lopez Island in the Strait of Juan de Fuca; all of the other students were Native Americans.

Live: Bad Kitty Board Mix

Live: Bad Kitty Board Mix is a 2006 live album by Sophie B. Hawkins recorded at The Triple Door (Seattle, USA) and The Basement (Sydney, Australia).

Lone Star Love

The musical started pre-Broadway try-outs at the 5th Avenue Theatre, Seattle, on September 8, 2007, and had an official run from September 19 through September 30.

Neukom Vivarium

The installation was gifted by Bill and Sally Neukom, American Express Company, Seattle Garden Club, Mark Torrance Foundation and Committee of 33, in honor of the Seattle Art Museum's 75th anniversary.

North Thurston High School

Kasey Keller, class of '88, US National Soccer team goalkeeper in 1990, 1998, 2002 and 2006 World Cup tournaments, former Goalie for Seattle Sounders FC.

Northwest Seaport

The Northwest Seaport Maritime Heritage Center is a nonprofit organization in Seattle, Washington dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of Puget Sound and Northwest Coast maritime heritage, expressed through educational programs and experiences available to the public.

Old Navy

The largest Old Navy stores are its flagship stores, located in New York City, the Mall of America, Seattle, Chicago and San Francisco.

Olson Kundig Architects

Olson Kundig Architects, a Seattle-based architectural firm, was founded by architect Jim Olson in 1967.

Rating site

Teachstreet — a "teacher rating site" founded in June 2007 by Dave Schappell in Seattle, that allows students to anonymously assign ratings to teachers of online and local American schools.

Ray Oyler

Before the Pilots even played their first game in 1969, Seattle radio disc jockey Robert E. Lee "Bob" Hardwick looked over the list of players drafted by the Pilots, discovered Oyler's batting average and created the "Ray Oyler Fan Club," initially as a radio bit on his radio show.

Regional climate change initiatives in the United States

On February 16, 2005, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels launched an initiative to advance the goals of the Kyoto Protocol through leadership and action by at least 141 American cities, and as of October, 2006, 319 mayors representing over 51.4 million Americans had accepted the challenge.

Seattle Liberation Front

Chip Marshall was one of the leading members of the Seattle Liberation Front after the split within the SDS in 1969.

Seattle Totems

Fielder and Filion remained the team's great stars, but like many other WHL teams the Totems had very stable rosters, and players such as Marc Boileau, Gerry Leonard, Bill MacFarland, Jim Powers, Gordie Sinclair and future NHL coach and general manager Tom McVie spent many seasons each in Seattle colors.

Silas Bissell

When Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated and activists stormed Chicago during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Silas and Judith joined a Seattle draft resistance group.

Sleepytime Trio

In 1998, the band took an extended hiatus when Ringo relocated to Seattle and the remaining members went on to form Engine Down, The Rah Bras, Milemarker, and Bats & Mice.

St. Clair Entertainment Group

It also has corporate offices and representation in Atlanta, Dallas, Detroit, Miami, Minneapolis, Montreal, New York, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver.

Suresh H. Advani

He gained experience in the field of bone marrow transplantation from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington.

The Gutter Twins

In July 2007, the music website Pitchfork Media announced that the duo, "two of the alt-rock era's greatest frontmen," had signed to Seattle label Sub Pop.

The Pushcart War

In 1980, the novel was adapted for the stage by Gregory Falls for the Young ACT Company in Seattle.

The Sweet Science

The Dead Science (formerly The Sweet Science), an experimental pop band from Seattle, Washington

Tim Dedopulos

Early in 1995 he joined the Glasgow office of Seattle games giant Wizards of the Coast to work on their dystopian future-horror game SLA Industries.

Top Pot Doughnuts

When U.S. president Barack Obama visited Seattle in October 2010, he and Senator Patty Murray stopped for doughnuts at the Top Pot on 5th Avenue in the Belltown/Denny Regrade neighborhood.

Via6 Towers

The Via6 Towers are a pair of 24-story apartment buildings under construction in the Belltown neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

Washington State Route 513

SR 513 begins at the intersection of Montlake Boulevard and Lake Washington Boulevard in the Montlake neighborhood of Seattle, part of a partial cloverleaf interchange with SR 520.

William L. Downing

William L. Downing is a judge of the Superior Court of Washington for King County (Seattle) and a former deputy prosecutor.

Youth council

Many cities, including Boston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Miami, Houston, Dallas, Seattle, and San Jose, California, have active youth councils that inform city government decision-making.