I grew up in Seattle, Washington. I still live in Washington just down the road a piece in Des Moines, Washington.
I suppose Seattle is pretty well known to movie goers although when they say they are "in Seattle" in the movie, they rarely actually filmed the movie here, typically they are up the road in Vancouver B.C. and just saying its Seattle, its cheaper to just show footage of flybys of the skyline and then do the filming elsewhere. Perhaps that will change if the $ continues to drop into the toilet.
Seattle is home to many things, obviously these people got started here.
And for that I'm truly sorry. I won't drink their coffee myself after the way Howard Shultz handled the Basketball team here that he owned for a paltry 5 years and then bailed out on us.
Then there is a Seattle institution, Dick's Drive in.
As we like to say here locally...
"There's nothing like a big bag of Dick's!" And sadly this is another example of local government sticking their noses in and telling us how to run our lives. Recently a law was passed here about trans-fats. Do you know about the evils of trans-fats? I don't really either and honestly I don't give a sh*t, but I know this, they forced Dick's to change the oil they cook their fries in and now longtime customers say their fries taste like ass. *sigh*
I throw in the obligatory picture of the Pike Place Market because it seems that if you've never been here, you've probably still seen this or the little fish market that's just inside in action. I swear to you, every single time the National media comes here for a sporting event they go down to the fish market and get the athlete's to chuck fish around like this is the only other game in town. Whatareyougonnado?
This is a view from the local beach about a mile from where I live now. The Puget Sound area is chock full of delicious views like this one and I highly recommend you never come here and see them for yourself, else you find yourself "trans-planted" here and never leave.