Sunday, February 25, 2007

Photos from Seattle, WA


Puget Sound






The original Starbucks. Note the difference in logo to the one we know (and below). This is because as Starbucks started expanding people started to complain about the nude lady on the side of Starbucks coffee trucks so the logo had to be changed.




The Seattle Underground. Seattle was built on tidal flats and had massive sanitary and structural problems in the 1800s. In the Great Seattle fire it burnt to the ground and the city decided to raise all its property (ie. the roads) by 8 - 30 feet so that the tide didn't consistently wash them away. However the business owners did not have the time or money to do this so they rebuilt at Seattle's original level, creating a waffle iron city pattern with the shops 8 - 30 feet below the roads. It took 20 years for the business owners to raise their buildings up to road level, hence the Underground was created.






The Space Needle and I. Built in 1962 for the World Fair it has now become the icon of Seattle (and Frasier!)


The Experience Music Project, second largest music museum in the world. Originally devoted to Jimi Hendrix. Was built by the same guy that designed Guggenheim, and there is not one right angle in its structure.


Pike Place Market






The Smith Tower (to the right of the photo) was the tallest skyscraper west of the Mississippi for many years. Built in the early 1900's its elevators are still manually operated


The firefighter's memorial

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