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Bumbershoot is an annual international music and arts festival held in Seattle, Washington.One of North America's largest such festivals, [1] it takes place every Labor Day weekend (leading up to and including the first Monday of September) at the 74-acre (299,000 m 2) Seattle Center, which was built for the 1962 World's Fair.
The Bite of Seattle is an annual food festival held in Seattle, Washington.It takes place at the Seattle Center.Locally, the festival is known as "The Bite". It is held on one weekend during the month of July, and is considered to be one of Seattle's largest food and beverage events with over 200 participating vendors.
The Rainier Club was first proposed at a February 23, 1888 meeting of six Seattle civic leaders; it was formally incorporated July 25, 1888. The attendees of the original meeting were J. R. McDonald, president of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway; John Leary, real estate developer and former Seattle mayor; Norman Kelly; R. C. Washburn, editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer; Bailey ...
In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the gala had to be cancelled and for the first time ever, the event was made free to the public, streaming online on December 1, 2020, as MoPOP honored Seattle's own Alice in Chains. [46] The benefit streaming raised more than $600,000 for MoPOP in its first night.
Outgrowing the Meydenbauer Center, the event moved to the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, where it drew some 39,000 in 2007, [2] 58,500 in 2008, 60,750 in 2009, and 70,000 in 2011. The show stopped reporting attendance numbers in 2011, citing difficulties in tracking attendance in a multi-day event.
Based on the Vera club in Groningen, Netherlands.The name Vera comes from the phrase Veri Et Recti Amici, which is Latin meaning "true and sincere friends". [1] Seattle's VERA Project was founded in 2001 by James Keblas, Shannon Stewart [2] (both studied at the University of Groningen in 1999), and Kate Becker (founder of the Old Redmond Firehouse), along with the help of many other community ...
Location of Seattle in King County and Washington. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Seattle, Washington. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in the city of Seattle, Washington, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates ...
As of 1965, the Seattle Center Armory remained under the ownership of the Washington State Military Department but was leased to the city government for use as an events and museum space. [6] The Seattle Center campus underwent a decline in attendance and importance after the World's Fair, which led to proposal to redevelop it for other uses. [3]