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During the summer of 2016 I relocated from Seattle to Las Vegas. Since then, I have not put up new posts here on New To Seattle, although visitors are free to comment on older posts, to which I often respond. In Sin City I've launched a new blog, New To Las Vegas, which continues my same tradition of observation, musings and commentary. Visitors can access my new blog by clicking here. Please visit and stay awhile.

Tag Archives: Pike Place Market

Seattle’s newest tourist attraction–which can’t be seen

Posted on March 18, 2014 by William P. BarrettJuly 6, 2014

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World’s largest tunneling machine will be stuck underground until at least September.

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Posted in Seattle image, Seattle infrastructure, Seattle Times | Tagged Alaskan Way Viaduct, Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement, Bertha Knight Landes, Bertha tunnel machine, Dragados, Jay Inslee, Lynn Peterson, Pike Place Market, Pioneer Square, Seattle Bertha, Seattle great wheel, Seattle pot, Seattle tourism, Seattle Tunnel Partners, State Highway 99, Tutor-Perini, Washington State pot, WSDOT | 1 Reply

Monumental Seattle (Part 4)

Posted on April 26, 2013 by William P. BarrettJuly 6, 2014

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Public art depicts nothing–or something

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Posted in Seattle culture, Seattle history, Seattle image, Seattle infrastructure, Seattle neighborhoods | Tagged Angie's Umbrella, Benson Shaw, Catherine Mayer, Columbia Tower, Confederate War Veteran's Memorial Seattle, Diane Keaton, Fremont neighborhood Seattle, Giant Red Popsicle, He and She in Seattle, He sculpture Seattle, Henry Moore, Howard Garnitz, Jack Nicholson, Jim Pridgeon, John T. Young, Leif Erikson statue Seattle, Martin Selig, People Waiting For The Interurban, Pike Place Market, Pop Art, Pop Art movement, Regrade Park, Richard Beyer, Seattle public art, Seattle Tulip, Seinfeld, She sculpture Seattle, Something's Gotta Give, The Itenerant, The Wall of Death sculpture, Three Dogs Chasing A Rat, Tom Wesselmann, Vertebrae sculpture | 2 Replies

Does a 1941 description of Seattle still ring true?

Posted on September 3, 2012 by William P. BarrettMay 30, 2015

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‘Farthest Reach,’ by Nancy Wilson Ross, provided an unflattering view

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Posted in Seattle culture, Seattle Freeze, Seattle history, Seattle Times | Tagged Andrew Carnegie, Farthest Reach, Farthest Reach: Washington and Oregon, Glenn Hughes, Lewis Mumford, Marie Newberger, Muriel Draper, Nancy Wilson Ross, Pike Place Market, Scientific American, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Seattle segregation, Seattle Symphony, Seattle Times, University of Washington, Virginia Boren | 2 Replies

Latest novel about Seattle lampoons city’s persona

Posted on August 12, 2012 by William P. BarrettMay 30, 2015

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‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’, by Maria Semple, finds much fodder in local doings

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Posted in Seattle crime, Seattle culture, Seattle drivers, Seattle Freeze, Seattle image, Seattle politics, Seattle weather, Starbucks | Tagged Bernadette, Bill Gates, Choate Rosemary Hall, E.L. James, Fifty Shades of Grey, Galer Street School, Jim Lynch, Lakeside School, Maria Semple, Microsoft, Mike McGinn, Nordstrom, Paul Allen, Pike Place Market, Queen Anne Hill, Seattle weather, Space Needle, Starbucks, Steve Balmer, Truth Like the Sun, Where'd You Go | 1 Reply

Seattle’s love-hate relationship with its downtown waterfront

Posted on July 16, 2012 by William P. BarrettJuly 6, 2014

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Tourists seem more interested in it than the locals.

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Posted in Seattle history, Seattle infrastructure, Seattle media, Seattle neighborhoods, Seattle sports, Seattle Times | Tagged Alaskan Way Viaduct, Belltown, Olympic Sculpture Park, Pike Place Market, Salt Lake Tribune, Seattle Aquarium, Seattle great wheel, Seattle tourism, Seattle waterfront | 3 Replies

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