- Seattle (allthetropes.org)
A city situated on the eastern bank of Puget Sound in the state of Washington, and its surrounding metro area. Named for a 19th century Duwamish tribal chief from the region, who did not give an environmental speech often attributed to him. Home base of (or at least origin-point for) Microsoft, Nintendo of America, Starbucks, Boeing, Amazon and several other companies of note, and the birthplace of Grunge music (Nirvana in particular, despite not being from here). Its landmarks include Pike Place Market, Pioneer Square (which pre-gentrification was the original Skid Row), The Experience Music Project, a half-mile Monorail constructed for the 1962 World’s Fair which exemplifies Zeerust to a tee, the Seattle Underground which was a partial inspiration for Ankh-Morpork, and the Space Needle, also constructed for the World’s Fair.
clockwise around Lake Washington
eastbound on Interstate 90
fast food that does not suck
- Seattle — Thumbnail History (historylink.org)
Seattle is the largest city in Washington state and its economic capital. Settled in 1851, its deep harbor and acquisition of Puget Sound’s first steam-powered sawmill quickly established it as a center of trade and industry. It gained the Territorial University (now University of Washington) in 1861, but was snubbed by the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1874 when it picked Tacoma as its western terminus. Despite this, the town prospered thanks to independent railroad development fueled by local coal deposits…
- The Giddiness of Time (streetsmartnaturalist.substack.com)
Although deep time manifests itself in many ways, it resonates more strongly in some locations. One such place is in downtown Seattle at the southwest corner of 2nd Avenue and Marion Street. There you will find a rather lovely art deco structure, the Exchange Building, originally built to house the city’s commodity exchanges. Alas, it opened in 1930 and the Depression prevented the building from meeting the owners’ great expectations. (Talk about bad timing!) But they did choose wisely with their building stone, the Morton Gneiss of Minnesota.
- Ballard, Seattle
- Beacon Hill, Seattle
- Belltown, Seattle
- Bitter Lake, Seattle
- Blue Ridge, Seattle
- Brighton, Seattle
- Broadview, Seattle
- Bryant, Seattle
- Capitol Hill, Seattle
- Central District, Seattle
- Chinatown–International District, Seattle
- Columbia City, Seattle
- Crown Hill, Seattle
- Delridge, Seattle
- Denny-Blaine, Seattle
- Denny Triangle, Seattle
- Downtown Seattle
- Dunlap, Seattle
- Eastlake, Seattle
- First Hill, Seattle
- Fremont, Seattle
- Georgetown, Seattle
- Green Lake, Seattle
- Greenwood, Seattle
- Haller Lake, Seattle
- Hawthorne Hills, Seattle
- Interbay, Seattle
- Lake City, Seattle
- Lakewood, Seattle
- Laurelhurst, Seattle
- Leschi, Seattle
- Madison Park, Seattle
- Madison Valley, Seattle
- Madrona, Seattle
- Magnolia, Seattle
- Maple Leaf, Seattle
- Montlake, Seattle
- Mount Baker, Seattle
- Northgate, Seattle
- Phinney Ridge, Seattle
- Pigeon Point, Seattle
- Pioneer Square, Seattle
- Portage Bay, Seattle
- Queen Anne, Seattle
- Rainier Beach, Seattle
- Rainier Valley, Seattle
- Ravenna, Seattle
- Roosevelt, Seattle
- Sand Point, Seattle
- Seward Park, Seattle
- SoDo, Seattle
- South Beacon Hill, Seattle
- South Lake Union, Seattle
- South Park, Seattle
- University District, Seattle
- View Ridge, Seattle
- Wallingford, Seattle
- Wedgwood, Seattle
- West Seattle
- Windermere, Seattle
- Yesler Terrace, Seattle
setting in a movie but filmed in Vancouver
- Vancouver Never Plays Itself (YouTube)
Perhaps no other city has been as thoroughly hidden from modern filmmaking as Vancouver, my hometown. Today, it’s the third biggest film production city in North America, behind Los Angeles and New York. And yet for all the movies and TV shows that are shot there, we hardly ever see the city itself. So today, let’s focus less on the movies and more on the city in the background.
- Seattle (Wikipedia)
Seattle (/siˈætəl/ see-AT-əl) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2022 population of 749,256 it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region of North America. The Seattle metropolitan area’s population is 4.02 million, making it the 15th-largest in the United States. Its growth rate of 21.1% between 2010 and 2020 made it one of country’s fastest-growing large cities.
