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64 unusual facts about Seattle


Alexander Dennis Enviro500

It was first loaned to Community Transit between 2007 and 2009 which put it into service on 1 August 2007, the bus was used on commuter routes between Seattle and various points in Snohomish County during its first year in operation.

Anders Beer Wilse

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

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.

Caffé Vita Coffee Roasting Company

Caffe Vita was founded in Seattle's Queen Anne neighborhood in 1995 by Mike McConnell, Mike Prins and Michael Foster.

Cambridgeshire Cats

After securing a sponsorship deal with the Washington State Apple Commission, a Seattle-based apple export firm, they were renamed the Cambridge Crunchers.

Charles P. Nelson

In January 1929, he was appointed coordinator of the Seattle area, in which capacity he served until he retired as Rear Admiral 30 June 1933.

Craft Brew Alliance

At first, the brewery was a small shop in the Seattle neighborhood of Ballard.

Dick's Drive-In

Founders Dick Spady, H. Warren Ghormley, and Dr. B. O. A. Thomas opened the first Dick's in 1954 in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood, on N.E. 45th Street.

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.

Erik Poulsen

Erik Edmund Poulsen (born August 3, 1964) is the former Washington State Senator from Washington's 34th Legislative District, a district that includes West Seattle, Vashon Island, and most of Burien.

Ernestine Anderson

In 2012, the Low Income Housing Institute named a housing project the "Ernestine Anderson Place" in her honor, noting Anderson's long residence in Seattle's Central District where the units are located.

Fairmount Park, Seattle

The Fairmount Park neighborhood of West Seattle in Seattle, Washington, runs along both sides of Fauntleroy Way SW from SW Graham Street in the south to SW Edmunds Street in the north.

George Kinnear

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Hillman City

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

Imaginary Landscape

Imaginary Landscape No. 1 was written in 1939 at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, Washington.

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.

Just Married

Peter bursts in the room tells Sarah to run away with him to Seattle.

King County Water Taxi

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

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.

Lakeridge, Washington

Its boundaries extend from Seattle's Rainier Beach neighborhood on the north, to Lake Washington on the east, to unincorporated Bryn Mawr on the southeast and unincorporated Skyway on the southwest.

The Seattle portion of Division #3 and all of Division #4 make up part of Seattle's Rainier View neighborhood.

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.

Matthews Beach Park

The village of too-HOO-beed was of the too-oh-beh-DAHBSH extended family and was near what is now called Thornton Creek in what is now Matthews Beach, near Meadowbrook.

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.

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.

MV Hiyu

The Hiyu was slightly bigger and faster than her predecessor, but most importantly, she had a higher clearance in her two center lanes, allowing trucks to reach Vashon Island without having to drive to Fauntleroy.

MV Tillikum

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

North Admiral, Seattle

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

Norvell House

Located in the community of Ballard, in the vicinity of Sunset Hill, it sits on its original-sized lot with impressive heritage trees and retains its flanking carriage house.

Pilling's Pond

Pilling's Pond is a privately owned urban waterfowl reserve and breeding ground in the North Seattle neighborhood of Licton Springs, Seattle, Washington.

Pioneer Square

Pioneer Square, Seattle, a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States

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.

Sea Haggs

In 1995, the band was wound up when Macfarlane moved to Seattle to join Sleater-Kinney.

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 Fault

Although the A.D. 900–930 earthquake was over a thousand years ago, local native legends have preserved an association of a powerful supernatural spirit – a'yahos, noted for shaking, rushes of water, and landsliding – with five locales along the trace of the Seattle Fault, including a "spirit boulder" near the Fauntleroy ferry dock in West Seattle.

Seattle Redhawks

The Seattle Redhawks are the intercollegiate varsity athletic teams of Seattle University, located in Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington that competes in the Western Athletic Conference.

Seattle's Best Coffee

Starbucks also owns and operates locations within Chapters and Indigo Books and Music bookstores in Canada.

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.

Starbucks Center

It is located in Seattle's SoDo neighborhood, which makes up a part of the city's large industrial district.

Thaddeus Hanford

Hanford was the eldest son of Seattle pioneers Edward and Abby Hanford and the older brother of Cornelius H. Hanford.

The Keepers of the House

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

The Mario Coldshot Foundation

Bring Your Own Brains, the movie, is nearing completion and already has distribution lined up with Audio Cine Films of Quebec and InterMedia of 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.

University Unitarian Church

The church is located in the Wedgwood, Seattle neighborhood at the corner of 35th Avenue NE and 68th Street.

The district of Wedgwood, Seattle located approximately two miles Northeast of I-5 and 6 miles Northeast of Seattle’s Downtown, is a middle class residential Seattle neighborhood.

VAXELN

Cutler's team developed the product after moving to the Seattle, Washington area to form the DECwest Engineering Group, DEC's first engineering group outside New England.

Via6 Towers

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

Virginia-Highland commercial districts

It is to include a nationally significant gourmet food hall, which Jamestown compares to Chelsea Market in New York City, which Jamestown developed, or also to Seattle's Pike Place Market and San Francisco's Ferry Building.

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 160

The highway begins at an interchange with SR 16 in Port Orchard and travels east to the Southworth ferry terminal, where the route continues onto a ferry to Vashon Heights, the former southern terminus of SR 339, and further east to end at the Fauntleroy ferry terminal in Seattle.

Washington State Route 181

The original route, between Auburn and Rainier Valley in Seattle, was originally established in 1931 as a branch of Primary State Highway 1 (PSH 1) and in 1937 as Secondary State Highway 5M (SSH 5M).

Washington State Route 513

SR 513 was created during the 1964 state highway renumbering as the successor to Secondary State Highway 1J (SSH 1J), itself created in 1937 and traveling from Downtown Seattle to Lake City.

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.

World Naked Bike Ride Seattle

For the first time ever in Seattle, a clothing-optional bike ride went through the Central and Madrona Districts of Seattle to begin its trek down Lake Washington Boulevard, which was originally designed as a bicycle path by the Olmsted Brothers.


Adrian Hanauer

By November, the two had brought in Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and comedian Drew Carey as investors and MLS had announced Seattle as the next expansion team.

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.

Chris Reitsma

Seattle reliever George Sherrill and strength coach Allen Wirtala had the shirts made up shortly after a game at Yankee Stadium.

Darril Fosty

During his college years he played bass guitar with the band First Step considered the 'sister band' for the Seattle based Brotherhood, the band which included future Sunny Day Real Estate and Foo Fighters' bassist Nate Mendel.

Dori Monson

Past local winners include former Seattle Supersonics owner Clay Bennett, former Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, Congressman Jim McDermott, Ron Sims, conservative political activist Tim Eyman, and Dori Monson.

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.

Eastlink

East Link, an extension of Sound Transit Link Light Rail in the Seattle metropolitan area

Edwin Harrison McHenry

In the 1880s McHenry was the principal assistant engineer on Stampede Pass during the construction of Stampede Tunnel, linking western Washington and especially the Puget Sound ports of Seattle and Tacoma to the East by rail.

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 Báthory

In 2009, Seattle-based rock band Aiden released a song called "Elizabeth" on their 2009 album Knives about the "demon countess".

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.

FreedomHEC

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

Gaia Consort

Seattle filmmaker and polyamory advocate Terisa Greenan has produced several music videos for Gaia Consort.

Get Him Back

On February 26, 2005 radio DJ Andrew Harms at 107.7 The End in Seattle began playing previously unheard tracks from a bootleg copy of Extraordinary Machine, and before long, poor quality copies of "Not about Love", "Get Him Back" and "Used to Love Him" were circulating on the internet.

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.

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.

KIXI

In 2013, Sandusky Radio sold its radio holdings in Seattle and Phoenix, Arizona to Hubbard Broadcasting.

KUNP

On August 21, 2012, Fisher Communications signed an affiliation agreement with MundoFox, a Spanish-language competitor to Univision that is owned as a joint venture between Fox International Channels and Colombian broadcaster RCN TV, for KUNP and Seattle sister station KUNS to be carried on both stations as digital subchannels starting in late September.

Leah LaBelle

In October 2004, LaBelle collaborated on a record album, Volume 7 of "Christmas in the Northwest" featuring singers and songwriters from the Pacific Northwest to benefit Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Centers in Seattle, Doernbecher Children's Hospital in Portland and Children's Miracle Network in Spokane.

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.

Mateo

Julio Mateo, American baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners.

Nesmith Ankeny

Nesmith Cornett Ankeny (1927, Walla Walla, Washington – 4 August 1993, Seattle) was an American mathematician specialising in number theory.

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.

Nothing's Gonna Hold Us Down

Nothing's Gonna Hold Us Down is the third EP released by Seattle powerpop band Danger Radio.

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.

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.

René Peña

René de Jesus Peña Gonzalez is a Cuban artist specializing in photography, and exposed his pictures in different exhibitions in Cuba (Havana), Spain and in the US (Seattle, Pennsylvania, New-York).

Rhodes Brothers

(See the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods web site, Seattle.gov, and its information on the Albert J. Rhodes mansion, designed by Ambrose J. Russell and Frederick Heath (architect).

Richard Webber

Catherine Avery (Debbie Allen) comes to Seattle and develops an interest in Richard but he refuses her advances because he is a married man.

Sappho, Washington

Traveling by steamer from Seattle, they landed at an Indian settlement called Pysht on the Strait of Juan de Fuca and hiked inland 20 miles through the rainforest to their claim.

Seattle Core

The Seattle Core is a fictional location found in Marvel Comics Age of Apocalypse storyline.

Seattle Police Department

The Seattle Police Officers' Guild membership voted overwhelmingly "no confidence" in Chief Gil Kerlikowske for his failure to take appropriate leadership action during the incident.

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.

St. Clair Entertainment Group

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

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.

Ward Cuff

Among his volunteer contributions to youth, he coached placekickers, Rick Redman and Bob Struble, at Seattle’s Blanchet High School in 1959–60.

Wheel 2000

The tour visited a variety of major market cities: Chicago, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., New York City, Charlotte, Dallas, Denver, Salt Lake City, Seattle, San Jose, and Anaheim.

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.