The Seattle Underground was a product of the 1860’s and the rapid development of the United States associated with the push to develop the west and the Yukon gold rush.

Seattle Above Ground seems to be the product of the 1960’s. The Seattle Space Needle, the Monorail, pictures of Elvis and JFK at the Armoury (part of the 1962 World Fair site) add to that feeling. That’s not a bad thing in fact Seattle is a great city full of interesting things to do.

The EMP museum, currently running a special exhibit on Jimi Hendrix (another product of the 60’s) was great. Other exhibits including the history of Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy Movies were equally fascinating.

Jimi Live

The Guitar Tree

Space Armaments

Full Wooden Dalek

Captain James T Kirk’s Chair

Monorail and Commuter

Our dining spot for the evening. Read the neon.

The Chihuly Glass Sculpture gardens next to the space needle were special and one could purchase scaled down versions of the art on display for as little as $6500 for a dinner plate sized version.

The Space Needle through the glass.

The Glass Ceiling

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Reflective ball.

Reflective ball 2.

The Flame Garden.

The Space Needle 2

Pike St. Market the oldest continually running Community Market in the USA was also great with everything from fishmongers to a steam-powered microbrewery.

Seattle Backblocks

Fishmonger

Who Knows?

Previous Sled Dog Trader

Steam Brewery

It sometimes rains in Seattle

My Favourite Seattle story is the guy who made a fortune out of the sled dog business. During the gold rush years in Alaska sled dogs could not be had at any price. Our man, who had the finest and best-trained sled dogs in Seattle, would sell his dogs to the highest bidder and because he cared about them so much he would always go to the dock to watch them sail off to Alaska. Once the ship was far enough off shore not to turn back but not too far for the dogs to swim he would just whistle the dogs up and they would jump over the side and swim back for lunch. The next day, and the day after, and the day after…………. they were back on the market.