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606  THE P A CIFIC NOR THWEST

Seattle: Beyond Downtown blinks at spiked purple hair
This extensive city offers plenty and multiple body piercings.
of opportunities for exploration Broadway, the district’s major
and recreation. Immediately avenue, is lined with shops
north of downtown are the and ethnic restaurants. Bronze
prime cultural venues of Seattle footsteps, to teach passersby
Center, while to its northeast is the tango and fox-trot, are
the prominent Capitol Hill. embedded in the sidewalk
Farther afield are the lively of Broadway.
University District, Woodland While people-watching is a
Park Zoo, and the characterful major source of entertainment,
neighborhoods of Fremont Capitol Hill also features two
and Ballard. vintage movie houses: the
Egyptian Theater on East Pine
P Seattle Center Street, and the Harvard Exit
Bounded by Denny Way & 1st Ave N, on East Roy Street. The hill
Mercer & Broad Sts. n (206) 684- is also home to St. Mark’s
7200. m Seattle Center. @ 1, 2, 3, 4, Space Needle, Seattle’s best-known Episcopal Cathedral on 10th
13, 16, 18. ∑ seattlecenter.com landmark and prime tourist attraction Avenue Street, known for its
Space Needle: 400 Broad St. magnificent Flentrop organ,
Tel (206) 905-2100. Open check for own stories. Also here is the consisting of 3,944 pipes.
times. 7 0 ∑ spaceneedle.com world’s first museum devoted to
Experience Music Project/Science science fiction. The museum E Fremont
Fiction Museum: 325 5th Ave N. Bounded by N 50th St, Lake
Tel (206) 770-2700. Open 10am– incorporates exhibitions and a Washington Ship Canal, Stone Way
9:30pm daily. Closed Thanksgiving, Hall of Fame, which presents Ave N, & 8th Ave NW. @ 26, 28.
Dec 25. & ^ 7 9 0 respected writers, artists,
∑ empmuseum.org publishers, and filmmakers from This funky district declared itself
the world of science fiction. an “artists’ republic” in the 1960s,
The proud legacy of the city’s The Pacific Science Center one consisting of students,
second World’s Fair in 1962, this features six buildings of white artists, and bohe mians attracted
74-acre (30-ha) urban park pre-cast concrete surrounding here by low rents. By the late
contains several inno vative five arches that soar over 1990s, its character began to
structures, cultural venues, and reflecting pools and fountains. change, after a high-tech firm
excellent museums. Among Its hands-on science and math set up office here. However,
the most striking is the Space exhibits are especially appealing Fremont has managed to hold
Needle. Supported by three to children. on to cherished traditions, such
curved steel legs, the needle’s The center is best reached by as the Summer Solstice Parade
glass-enclosed tophouse the Seattle Monorail. It covers and an outdoor film series.
features an observation deck the 1.2-mile (2-km) distance Public art is a fixture of
and a revolving restaurant. At between the downtown station Fremont. A 13.5-ft- (4-m-) tall
the base of the Space Needle, (5th Avenue at Pine Street) and statue of Lenin towers above
the exuberant Frank Gehry- the Seattle Center in 90 seconds. pedestrians at Fremont Place,
designed Experience Music and a 15-ft- (4.5-m-) tall
Project/Science Fiction P Capitol Hill Volkswagen-eating troll lurks
Museum (EMP) celebrates Bounded by Montlake Blvds E & NE, E under the north end of the
music with rare memorabilia, Pike & E Madison Sts, 23rd Ave E & I-5. Aurora Bridge. On 34th Street,
interactive exhibits, and live @ 3, 4, 48, 84. sculptor Richard Beyer’s People
performance space. Visitors can Lively Capitol Hill is a colorful Waiting for the Interurban (1979)
listen to musicians telling their neighborhood where no one is regularly clothed by locals.
The dog’s face in the sculpture
is modeled after an honorary
mayor, with whom the artist
had a dispute.
E Museum of Flight
9404 E Marginal Way S (exit 158
from I-5). Tel (206) 764-5720. @ 154,
173, 174. Open 10am–5pm daily
(to 9pm 1st Thu of month).
Closed Thanksgiving, Dec 25. & -
= ∑ museumofflight.org
As the largest air and space
museum on the West Coast,
The Experience Music Project building in Seattle Center this is one of Seattle’s premier
For hotels and restaurants in this region see pp632–3 and pp634–5

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