Seattle's businessmen commented on the phenomenon sourly ; it was plain to everyone that these workers were conscientiously and energetically studying how to organize their coming to power.

" Shortly after settling on their name, Ballew and Dederer added drummer Jason Finn ; the band played their first show as a trio at Seattle's Romper Room in early December 1993.

His first hit, released in 1987, was the single " Posse on Broadway ," whose title referred to a street in Seattle's Capitol Hill district.

Although the Mariners subsequently lost the ALCS to the Cleveland Indians ( managed by later Mariners manager Mike Hargrove ), that moment remains one of the most memorable in Mariners history, capping a season that " saved baseball in Seattle ", Seattle's improbable late season playoff run that year, spurred by the return of Griffey from injury, led to the construction of Safeco Field and the future security of a franchise rumored for years to be on the move.

George Jetson is married and lives with his family in the Skypad Apartments in Orbit City, where all homes and businesses are raised high above the ground on adjustable columns in the Googie style, reflective of Seattle's Space Needle and the Theme Building of the Los Angeles International Airport.

Originally titled Swamp Pussy, Spanking Machine was recorded with grunge producer Jack Endino at Seattle's Reciprocal Recording and released in April 1990 on Minneapolis ' Twin / Tone Records.

Ultimately, they recovered to gain the third seed in the 2011 WNBA Playoffs, and upset the Seattle Storm in the opening round, closing an 18-point deficit to win on Seattle's home floor, allowing the Mercury to reach its third straight conference finals.

When founders Dan Ireland and Darryl Macdonald of the Moore Egyptian lost their lease, they founded the Egyptian theater in a former Masonic Temple on Seattle's Capitol Hill.

The community holds an annual one-day event in August called SeaScare, a play on the name of Seattle's Seafair.

Seattle's historic Skid Road district ( now better known as Pioneer Square ) centers on Yesler Way.

" One of Burke's last performance was at the 40th annual Bumbershoot: Seattle's Music & Arts Festival, on Saturday, September 4, 2010.

* Thunderbird ( Fremont Inn ), a motel on Seattle's Aurora Avenue ( US 99 ) demolished under a local nuisance abatement law

In previous years the ball has been held at the Space Needle, on an Argosy Cruise, and at Seattle's W Hotel.

Kerry Hall, Cornish's oldest building and the last part of Cornish remaining on Seattle's Capitol Hill.

" They played their last show on February 3, 1984 with Malfunkshun at Seattle's Metropolis.

Seattle's punk rock scene was always limited, but is important for its influence on the development of grunge.

Going to the mid-end of the ' 80s, Seattle had their thrash metal bands, such as The Accused ( a crossover thrash band ), Bitter End, Coven, Forced Entry, Terrorist a power trio featuring Andy Massey on guitar James Dean on bass and Vence LaRose drums formerly of Mace ... NME and R. I. P .. Also of particular note are Seattle's Slaughter Haus 5, Tacoma Bands Sword of Judgement, Hammer Head, Kil-D-Kor, Koz of Konfuzion, Diamond Lie featuring Jerry Cantrell of Alice in Chains, as well as Olympia bands Cyperus and Death Squad.

It was once the heart of the city: Seattle's founders settled there in 1852, following a brief six-month settlement at Alki Point on the far side of Elliott Bay.

* Seattle's Asian American Movement, a multimedia collection of resources on the International District Preservation Movement and the Kingdome protests.

One of their performances, at Seattle's Hattie's Hat restaurant in Ballard, was recorded and released as an album, The Other Women, on November 28, 2000.

Activists staged a spoof of Seattle's daily paper, the Post-Intelligencer, on Wednesday 24 November, inserting thousands of hoax editions of a four page front page wrap-around into piles of newspapers awaiting distribution to hundreds of street boxes and retail outlets.

She attended Kimball Elementary School on Seattle's Beacon Hill and used some of her experiences there as an inspiration for her work.

Seattle's open housing forces took a blow when, on May 15, 1965, just before the summer of the Voting Rights Act and the Watts Riots, an airplane crash killed Sidney Gerber and city council member Wing Luke.

He allowed 1 run, struck out 6, and held on for the series-ending win in Seattle's dramatic comeback.

Though both Seattle and Tacoma grew at a rapid rate from 1880 to 1890, based on the strength of their timber industries, Seattle's growth as an exporter of services and manufactured goods continued for another two decades, while Tacoma's growth dropped almost to zero.

In an ironic twist on the band's name, the sad song was partly inspired by Seattle's rainy winter weather.

The band's first full-length album, World Full of Hate, appeared in 1982, but even in spite of modest success overseas ( one single reached the Top Ten on the NME's alternative chart ), the frustration with Seattle's lack of opportunity took its toll.

One of Seattle's first black deejays, Bob Summarise, brought an R & B influence to his airshift on KQDE.

In 1997, Kenmore Air planned to begin operating service from Elliott Bay, a body of water on Puget Sound where Seattle's downtown waterfront is located.

Suede were the first of the new crop of guitar-orientated bands to be embraced by the UK music media as Britain's answer to Seattle's grunge sound.

Recently they've been competing in a game called the Battle in Seattle taking place at Seattle's CenturyLink Field before the even more traditional Cascade Cup game, although because of conference scheduling the two games were combined starting 2006.

On June 16, 2007, he was inducted into Seattle's Science Fiction Hall of Fame, where his paintings of aliens were displayed in the Museum's Alien Encounters exhibition ( September 10, 2006-October 30, 2007 ).

During this period, Seattle's downtown was in decline ( as were many other downtowns across the nation, for much the same reason ): people shopped in the suburbs, not in the city.

" Almost all of Seattle's large parks were constructed during this period: Woodland Park ( which includes the Woodland Park Zoo ), Volunteer Park, Green Lake, Washington Park ( now the site of the University of Washington Arboretum ), Ravenna Park, Leschi Park, Seward Park.

They ventured to Walla Walla, where they were given a warm welcome, but lacked Seattle's concern for the project: they already had land transport to Portland, Oregon, not to mention access to the Columbia River.

From 1983 to 2009, the Times and Seattle's other major paper, the Hearst-owned Seattle Post-Intelligencer, were run under a " Joint Operating Agreement " ( JOA ) whereby advertising, production, marketing, and circulation were controlled by the Times for both papers.

At the same time, many of Seattle's urban Indians were concerned to gain a land base within the city.

Fourteen of Seattle's goals were scored by Bernie Morris ( including six in game four alone ).

The Mariners were in the midst of a 93-loss season and were rebuilding, and Torrealba competed for the opportunity to be Seattle's starting catcher.

For some time these pamphlets were seen by hundreds on Seattle's streetcars and ferries, read by men of the shipyards on their way to work.

Along with Alice in Chains, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Nirvana, Screaming Trees were part of Seattle's emerging grunge scene in the early 1990s.

The fire forced KOMO-TV to improvise its delivery of KOMO 4 News, including setting up a temporary news set and satellite truck at Seattle's Kerry Park, and weather forecast graphics were prepared on a large sketchpad set up on an easel.

All but one of Seattle's early purpose-built libraries were Carnegie libraries.

Eastlake is also home to Seattle's highest concentration of houseboats, the likes of which were made famous in the 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle.

The zoo animals were donated to the City in 1903 and the site itself was sold to the City in 1909 and became one of Seattle's earliest parks.

It was founded in 1974 by Gerald Yuasa and Lawrence Imamura to serve what the founders thought were the business interests of the Asian American community in Seattle's International District.

Their first professional performances were the result of a prank played on them in 1958 by a rival fraternity, who had arranged for someone to call them, pretend to be from Seattle's Colony Club, and invite them to come down to audition for a gig.

They were installed temporarily in Miami, Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park, and Seoul, Korea.

In spite of the modernization of the opera productions which Ross found at the Bayreuth Festival, Seattle's were to be traditional productions and appeal to the lovers of the traditional.

Outside of the fair itself, Seattle's bars were filled with the live music that would result just a few years later in the region's first great period as a rock ' n ' roll mecca.