My office is in a building across the street from one of Seattle’s landmarks, the King Street Station. When this structure was built in 1904 to 1906, it was the Tallest Building In Seattle. It lost that title in 1914 to the Smith Tower, which you can see just behind it on the right.
Coincidentally, in this photo you can also see the current Tallest building, the Columbia Center Tower, which is the the black monolith on the far right. At 967 feet and 76 floors, it claimed the title of Tallest in 1985. (Personally, I think it’s also the Creepiest in Seattle; it sways like a tree during wind storms.)
For an almost exact copy of this image, check out the King Street Station’s page in Wikipedia. I guess the photographer and I park in the same garage.
[tags]Seattle, historic landmarks[/tags]
Bah! New York has buildings so tall that if you cried from a balcony on the tallest floor and a tear drop fell, it would be days before it hit the bottom … Muuahahahha. *mumbles*
Seattle… stupid… podunk…town …
What’s so great about tall? You want to take a parachute to work?
Bayushi, you know what they say. If you love it so much, MOVE BACK.