When the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, a newspaper that began publishing in 1863, built new offices shortly after World War II, it held a contest to design an emblem that would decorate the circular roof above the building's entrance in Belltown. A former GI and art student attending the University of Washington proposed a rotating neon globe to symbolize the paper's international coverage and won $500. The art department added the eagle and the slogan--"It's in the P-I"--before the project was completed at a cost that would be almost inconceivable today for an analog media company.
The emblem moved once with the newspaper to smaller offices. But when the Post-Intelligencer, which stopped publishing a print edition in 2009, downsized yet again, the now iconic globe stayed put. Around the same time the city gave it landmark status, the Post Intelligencer donated the 13-ton architectural anachronism to the Museum of History and Industry, which promised to find it a new home. That was 15 years ago. Methinks that eagle has become an albatross.
Seattle's waterfront stretches for miles, with the ferris wheel a focal point for tourists.
It's hard to imagine the original function of some of the piers.
The Seattle Aquarium's new Ocean Pavilion will open at the end of August in the brown structure near the water on the right.
If I'd had more time, I would have taken one of the commuter ferries across the Puget Sound.
The bigger ones transport cars, too.
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