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Seattle: the Emerald City
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Pike Place Market• Pike Place is a farmers
market that overlooks a bay. It has been in Seattle for more than one hundred years!
• Pike Place is a popular destination on the weekends. On Saturdays and Sundays, it is full of tourists and also Seattlelites.
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Pike Place Market
• Inside the market you can find bookstores, record stores, antique shops, bakeries, and flower shops.
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Pike Place Market
• You also see street musicians playing their instruments for money.
• They are usually playing the guitar, the harmonica, the piano, or the violin.
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Fish Throwing at Pike Place• Fishmongers (fishermen
who sell fish) have a tradition in Pike Place called fish-throwing.
• It is simply throwing and catching the fish the customer has bought before it is wrapped and taken.
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rdUnZVvoD0
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Space Needle
• The Space Needle is a symbol of Seattle. It is a 42-meter tower that offers you panoramic view of the city.
• At the top of the Space Needle, you can find a gift shop and a rotating restaurant!
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Other Interesting Things• Close to the market, you can
find the bubble gum wall. It is literally a wall in an alley where thousands of people have put their chewing gum!
• In Volunteer Park, you can find the doughnut, a granite sculpture by a Japanese artist . If you look closely, you can see the Space Needle through the inner circle!
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Seattle Music• For many years Seattle has
had a vibrant rock music scene. The city holds large annual concerts, like Bumbershoot and the Block Party.
• There are famous jazz and rock musicians who were born in Seattle or started their musical careers there.
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Seattle Music• Some of these musicians include:
Quincy Jones (jazz producer), Jimi Hendrix (guitarist), and Kurt Cobain (Nirvana frontman).
• Seattle was the birthplace of Grunge music: a form of hard rock with personal and sometimes dark lyrics.
• PearlJam:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM0zINtulhM
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Capitol Hill: Where the fun is• Capitol Hill is the
neighborhood with the best dance clubs. The clubs that stay open past the legal time are located in this neighborhood!
• In Seattle clubs, people usually dance techno, house, and hip-hop. Latin American music, such as salsa or bachata, is played in a few places or on specific nights.
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Capitol Hill: Where the fun is
• One of my favorite places to go dancing in Capitol Hill is called Neighbors. It is open until four a.m. and always plays electronic music!
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My Neighborhood: University District
• When I studied at the University of Washington, I lived in the University District.
• The U-District has many restaurants restaurants (mostly from China, Vietnam, and India), stores, and bars. It’s full of coffeeshops where students do school work or hang out with their friends.
• The main avenue is called “The Ave” . It’s always full of students and it is where you find most of the businesses.
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My Favorite Bar
• My favorite bar in the U-District is called Flowers. It has that name because it used to be a flower shop before it became a bar.
• Another bar my friends and I go to is called The Crescent and has karaoke!
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Sports• Seattle has baseball,
football, and Soccer teams.
• Their baseball team is the Mariners, their football team is the Seahawks, and the Soccer team is the Sounders.
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Sports• Two of the best Sounders
players are the forward Freddy Montero (born in Colombia) and the goalkeeper Kasey Keller (also a goalkeeper of the national team)
• Freddy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgGMBTgoA2E
• Kasey: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMIWjEGDcQA
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Festivities• Seattle has some annual
festivities and events. Some of them are three-day concerts like the Capitol Hill Block Party and Bumbershoot. Others are very unique events, like the Summer Solstice Parade. And others, like HempFest, have a controversial and political character.
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