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Downtown
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skyline
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English: Aerial photograph of Downtown Seattle, 2011
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English: Space Needle and Downtown
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English: Space Needle and Downtown by day
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English: Space Needle and Downtown by night
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English: Downtown from the Space Needle
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English: Waterfront at night in December
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English: Waterfront at night in December, wider view
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English: Skyline with Harbor Island in foreground
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English: Washington Talking Book and Braille Library and skyline
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English: Washington Mutual Tower
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English: Another angle of the Washington Mutual Tower
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English: Columbia Center
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English: Rainier Tower
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English: Main public library, designed by Rem Koolhaus
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English: Smith Tower in the evening
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English: View of downtown Seattle from Kerry Park. Mt. Rainier appears barely visible through the haze to the right of the city.
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English: Downtown Seattle from Alki Point
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English: Downtown and Elliot Bay (lower left)
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English: South Lake Union and downtown Seattle as seen from South Lake Union park
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English: Alaskan Way Viaduct, 2013; at this point, the southern portion of the viaduct had already been demolished. This portion was closed in January 2019 and demolished over the next several years.
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English: King County / Elliot Bay water taxi and downtown Seattle
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English: South Lake Union Streetcar headed south across Lenora Street
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English: Downtown as seen from Queen Anne Hill
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Panorama of Seattle skyline taken from a cruise ship in June of 2007.
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The Amazon Spheres
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Amazon Spheres at night
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English: Bank in the lobby of the Hoge Building
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English: Terracotta detail, Times Square Building
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English: Terracotta detail, Coliseum Theater
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English: Terracotta detail, Eagles Auditorium
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English: Terracotta detail, Arctic Building
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English: Entrance, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
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English: Entrance, Fifth Avenue Theater
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English: An electric trolleybus connected to the powerlines
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English: Political speech in the form of an art car
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English: Performance art in a downtown store window
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English: A shoemaker at workMagyar: Cipész munka közben
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skyline
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Skyline, 2005
Pike Place Market
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English: A postcard view of the Market c. 1913
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English: Sugar vendor: 1917
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English: Vegetable vendor daystalls: 1917
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Pike Place Market
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English: Pike Place Fish
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English: Pike Place Fish selection
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English: Pike Place Market, main arcade
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English: Produce for sale
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English: More produce
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English: Salmon for saleMagyar: Eladó lazac
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English: View from Pike Place Market over Elliott Bay and the Industrial District, 2008
Overlook Walk
[edit]The Overlook Walk from Pike Place Market to the Downtown Waterfront, opened September 2024, provides numerous new vistas of Downtown and the Waterfront.
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English: Elliott Bay, Seattle Aquarium, Seattle Great Wheel; stadiums in the distance at left
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English: The Belltown skyline at left, transitioning into Downtown at right
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English: Looking out over Alaskan Way to Downtown
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English: MarketFront in the middle ground, Belltown behind that
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English: Pier 62 and sunset on Elliott Bay
Pioneer Square
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English: Two street grids meet at Yesler Way, the original Skid Road
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English: Looking along First Avenue into Pioneer Square from the north
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English: Pioneer Square Park, seen from above
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English: Looking roughly east from the corner of First, Yesler, and Cherry in 1917.
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English: Totem pole & Pioneer Building
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English: Detail of Pioneer Building
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English: Old sign on Delmar Building / State Hotel
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English: Bread of Life Mission
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English: Pawnshop sign
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English: The venerable J&M Cafe
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English: An alley near Pioneer Square
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English: The Globe Building, until 2010 the home of Elliott Bay Books
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English: Terracotta detail of the Fisher Building, home of Stonington Gallery
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English: The Post Steam Plant ("Old Post Station", Seattle Steam Company)
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English: King Street Station
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English: King Street Station, interior
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English: Union Station
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English: Union Station, interior
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English: The Waltham Block in 1900
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English: The Waltham Block in 2008
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English: Crescent Manufacturing Company / Ingels Block in 1900
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English: Ingels Block in 2007
Stadiums
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Seahawks Stadium (now Lumen Field) & skyline, 2002
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Lumen Field, looking north
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Lumen Field and T-Mobile Park seen from Pier 66, 2009. The now-demolished shed of Pier 48 can be seen to the right of the ferries at Colman Dock.
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T-Mobile Park
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T-Mobile Park
Historical images
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English: "Katzenjammer Castle"—Seattle's city hall in the years after the Great Fire of 1899—and, at left, Henry Yesler's mansion, the public library until it burned in 1901.
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English: Downtown Seattle in 1880.
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English: Seattle's first streetcar, 1884, corner of Occidental & Yesler.
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Pioneer Place (now Pioneer Square) circa 1892.
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English: The Central Waterfront during the Klondike Gold Rush.
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English: The Burke Building, 1900, on the site of the present-day Jackson Federal Building.
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English: The old King County Courthouse, 1900, atop "Profanity Hill (now Yesler Terrace).
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English: Interior of the Seattle Theatre, 1900.
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English: Harbor panorama, 1905.
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English: In 1900 this building stood at the southwest corner of First and University
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English: Second Avenue, 1909
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English: The old downtown Carnegie Library, 1919.
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English: The County-City Building, c. 1919. As of 2010, this has had additional floors added, and is now the King County Courthouse.
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English: Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, 1914.
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English: The east side of Second Avenue between Union and Pike
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English: On the waterfront c. 1935.
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1917
Seattle Center
[edit]Main gallery: Seattle Center.
Seattle Center is a fairgrounds park on the former site of the Century 21 Exposition, the 1962 World's Fair
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Space Needle
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English: Pacific Science Center at night
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Kobe Bell
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English: Local band The Lashes perform at Bumbershoot
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English: Sitting on the lawn during a fair
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Music on Bastille Day
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Breakdancer at Festival Sundiata
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Hawaiian dancers at Center House during Festál's API (Asian Pacific Islander) Heritage Month Festival
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Japanese dancers prepare to perform during Cherry Blossom Festival
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Mixing music at the Vera Project
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English: Riding the roller coaster at the Fun Forest, 1995; demolished 2010
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English: Children playing in the International Fountain
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English: Kreielsheimer Promenade and Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, Seattle Center
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KEXP Gathering Space
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View from the top of the Space Needle (Puget Sound to the left and right, Lake Union in the Center)
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Seattle Great Wheal
MoPOP (formerly EMP Museum)
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View from roughly the southwest
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Overhead aerial view
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Sky Church
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Interviewing Al Kooper as part of the "Sound + Vision" series
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Interviewing Krist Novoselic as part of the "Sound + Vision" series
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Janelle Monáe appearing on a panel at the 2010 Pop Conference
Tallest skyscrapers
[edit]From List of tallest buildings in Seattle.
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11. Rainier Tower
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17. Smith Tower
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18. One Union Square
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19. Olive 8
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22.English: Fifteen Twenty-One Second Avenue and Downtown
Monuments and memorials
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Leif Erikson memorial statue at Shilshole Bay Marina
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Statue of William Henry Seward in Volunteer Park
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Bergen Place Monument
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United Confederate Veterans memorial, Lake View Cemetery, Capitol Hill
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Monument to the International Brigade
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Chief Seattle's bust
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Nisei War Memorial, Lake View Cemetery
Inner neighborhoods
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Counterbalance Park by night
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Chinatown Gate, International District
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Chong Wa Benevolent Association, International District
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Seattle Buddhist Church, International District / Central District
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St. James Cathedral, First Hill
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St. Ignatius Chapel, Seattle University, First Hill
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Lake Union Steam Plant, Cascade / South Lake Union
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The schooner Wawona on South Lake Union and, behind it, Capitol Hill. The Wawona was taken away to be dismantled March 2009.
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R Place, Capitol Hill, 2009 probably the city's largest gay bar at the time
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Bullitt Center, 1501 East Madison Street
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Tibetan prayer wheel on Broadway, Capitol Hill
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Sunset seen from Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery Park, Capitol Hill
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Front building of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Outer neighborhoods
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Kubota Garden, Rainier Valley
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Wat Lao Dhammacetiyaram (Lao Buddhist temple), Rainier Valley
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Boiler, Georgetown PowerPlant Museum
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Art exhibit in the Malt House of the former Seattle Brewing and Malting Company, Georgetown
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General Offices, former Seattle Brewing and Malting Company, Georgetown
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Alki waterfront
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Alki Beach
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West Queen Anne Walls
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Body-painted cyclists prepare for Fremont Solstice Parade
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Raven costume, Fremont Solstice Parade
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Northwest African American Museum (former Colman School), Judkins Park
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University of Washington quad at cherry blossom time
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St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church, Montlake
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Gargoyle in the University District
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Ravenna Park
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Picardo Farm (allotment gardens), Wedgwood
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A funeral bouquet at the Fishermen's Memorial, Ballard/Interbay
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Hulking ruins at Gas Works Park, Lower Wallingford
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Paraglider at Golden Gardens Park
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Flutist at Golden Gardens Park
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The spillway at Ballard's Hiram M. Chittenden Locks, fresh water pouring into salt
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The Ballard Building, Market Street in Ballard
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Ballard, Fremont, Phinney Ridge and Greenlake neighborhoods; Salmon Bay
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Duwamish Head, West Seattle
Industrial District
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English: Aerial view of barges and warehouses on Duwamish Waterway
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English: Aerial view of south tip of Harbor Island
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English: Seattle City Light south service center
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English: Former Rainier Brewery
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English: Todd Shipyard
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English: Duwamish Railroad Bridge
Bridges
[edit]On the Lake Washington Ship Canal
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English: Salmon Bay Bridge seen from Chittenden Locks
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English: Ballard Bridge seen from Seattle Maritime Academy
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English: Operator's tower, Fremont Bridge
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English: Aurora Bridge during 1992 Fremont Solstice Parade
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English: University Bridge and Interstate 5 Ship Canal Bridge
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English: Montlake Bridge opens for a sailboat
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English: Another view of the Montlake Cut and bridge
Other Bridges
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Cowen Park Bridge
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Bicycle on Ravenna Park Bridge
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Jose P. Rizal Bridge
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Underside of Jose P. Rizal Bridge
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West Seattle Bridge
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South Park Bridge, over the Duwamish River
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