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69 unusual facts about Seattle


Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion

Alaska Airlines Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion, commonly known as Hec Edmundson Pavilion, or simply Hec Ed is an indoor arena on the campus of the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington, United States; the home of the Washington Huskies of the Pacific-12 Conference.

Alejandro G. Abadilla

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

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.

Anna Herr Clise

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

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.

Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath

Congregation Bikur Cholim Machzikay Hadath is a synagogue in the Seward Park 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.

Brighton, Seattle

Brighton is a neighborhood in south Seattle, Washington, part of the greater Rainier Valley district.

Bruce Harrell

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

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.

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.

Chip Talk

It was written and hosted by Seattle radio personality Dave Ross, who had produced the program since its inception, until mid-2004, when he took a leave of absence to run for the United States Congress.

Craft Brew Alliance

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

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.

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.

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.

FreedomHEC

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

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".

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.

Imaginary Landscape

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

Interbay

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

ISAFF

The film festival is celebrated annually in the month of October in Seattle Since its small beginning in 2002, it has grown in size and variety.

Itaru Ishida

In addition to his Grand Prix success, Ishida had success in the teams format, with second place finishes at Pro Tour Seattle 2004 and at the Master Series in Tokyo (2001) and Osaka (2002).

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.

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.

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.

Lakeridge, Washington

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

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

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

MiKandi

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

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.

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

Red Mill Burgers

Red Mill Burgers is an American restaurant in Seattle, Washington with locations in the Phinney Ridge and Interbay neighborhoods.

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 Film Institute

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

Seattle process

As an example, during the massive redevelopment of the Cascade and South Lake Union neighborhoods in the early 21st century it was criticized by Vulcan Inc. and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center that an in-depth discussion of all of the ideas would wear out the patience of other groups providing financial capital.

Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corporation

In 1939, the old shipyard in Commencement Bay, Tacoma was revived by Todd and Kaiser Shipbuilding together with the aid of some $15 million in capital provided by the US Navy, for the production of vessels in anticipation of possible US entry into World War II.

Seattle's Best Coffee

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

Shamiram Urshan

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

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.

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 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.

University Prep

University Prep, formerly known as University Preparatory Academy and now popularly known as U Prep, is an independent, coeducational middle and high school located in the Wedgwood neighborhood of Seattle, Washington.

University Unitarian Church

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

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.

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.

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.

Washington State Cougars

Governor Albert Rosellini had presented him to WSU in 1964 from Seattle's Woodland Park Zoo.

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 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.

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 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.

However, the morning run at Seward Park and evening swim at Madison Park beach took place and were a success, but not financially as no money was raised.


1992 Seattle Seahawks season

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

Armageddon's Children

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

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.

Camp Lawton

Fort Lawton, a former United States Army post in Seattle, Washington

Chris Reitsma

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

Comparative cognition

Similarly, gene activity in the human brain is better understood through examination of the brains of mice by the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Brain Science (see link below), yielding the freely available Allen Brain Atlas.

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.

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.

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 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.

Hannes Bok

In 1938, he relocated to Seattle – where he worked for the W.P.A. and became acquainted with artists like Mark Tobey and Morris Graves.

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.

Jim Blashfield

Jim Blashfield (born September 4, 1944, Seattle, Washington) is an American filmmaker and media artist, best known for his short films such as Suspicious Circumstances and The Mid-Torso of Inez, and his music videos for musicians Talking Heads, Joni Mitchell, Nu Shooz, Paul Simon, Peter Gabriel, Michael Jackson, Tears for Fears, "Weird Al" Yankovic and Marc Cohn.

KCMS

The station transmitted with an effective radiated power of 240,000 watts from the tower site of KGDN-AM at King's Garden (now Crista) in north Seattle (19303 Fremont Ave West).

KIXI

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

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.

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).

Mateo

Julio Mateo, American baseball pitcher for the Seattle Mariners.

Michael Mastro

In 2011 they started a journey that began at Mr. Mastro’s sister house in Seattle, went on to Toronto, Canada and according to investigators Focus Ltd. ended in a €5,000 per month house in Veyrier-du-Lac, France, on the eastern shore of Lake Annecy.

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.

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.

Nothing's Gonna Hold Us Down

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

OOF! EP

The EP received a limited edition run of 808 physical CDs which were made available online, at the Seattle release party, at Caffé Vita locations in Seattle, and at IN4MATION Ward in Honolulu.

Pete Muldoon

For the 1915 season, he changed teams, and went to Seattle to manage a new team in the PCHA, the Metropolitans.

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.

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.

Roger Murrah

He then moved to Nashville, Tennessee and in 1972 made his first appearance on the national charts with "It's Raining in Seattle" by Wynn Stewart.

Seattle Core

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

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.

Statue of Responsibility

The statue foundation would like to build it in one of five host cities: Long Beach, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco (California) or Seattle (Washington).

Tacoma Opera

Wolf then served as the company's general director until the late 1990s, during which time Tacoma Opera produced several premieres, including the West Coast premiere of Offenbach's Christopher Columbus and the world premiere of Seattle composer Carol Sams' The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

Terry Pettus

When Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger passed through Seattle, they performed at the hoots; it is believed that they picked up the term hootenanny there, and passed it into the broader American vocabulary.

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.

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.

Transactional interpretation

Cramer uses TIQM in teaching quantum mechanics at the University of Washington 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.

Washington Referendum 74

Starbucks, Nike, Inc., REI, Alcoa, Expedia, Inc., T-Mobile, Nordstrom, the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, and dozens of other businesses also supported the bill.

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.