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You are at Pike Place Market
and you're here kind of in the heart of it.
August 17th, 1907.
So 118 years ago,
it was the first day for which farmers
lined up on Pike Place
and sold directly for the first time
to satellites and to consumers.
And so they brought their were strong wagons
full of produce, so fruits and vegetables.
And on that very first day
and that was what started what you're experiencing.
And you can see here today.
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I think the beauty here is it's true community.
It's an ecosystem of incredible delight.
We have 90 plus farmers.
We also have a significant part of our population
are handmade artisans and craftspeople.
If you have not been to the market in a while,
there is more to see.
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And we really in many ways
have another new front door
and that is
heading from the waterfront at the Overlook walk
and then really stepping
into the market in a new way.
When folks find themselves here
and there is so much to see, there's so much
to enjoy.
There's so much to taste.
There's absolutely nothing like Pike Place
Market in the world.
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- We are currently at the top
of the Space Needle here in Seattle, Washington.
It was built in 1962 for the World's Fair.
What the Space Needle represented at the time
and the World's Fair
in general, was innovation and hope and technology.
When you arrive at the top and those elevator doors
open,
you are greeted like a big hug
from the Pacific Northwest.
And this amazing view at the top.
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Back in 2018, we did the century project,
where we actually peeled away
concrete from the building and some wires at the top,
and we replaced them
with these gorgeous pieces of glass.
Each panel is about 2,000 pounds and are made
of the strongest glass in the world.
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One of my favorite parts of being here
and being part of the team is walking around
and seeing our guest experience,
seeing the Space Needle for the first time.
And then there's also this
little bit of boldness and courage
that is poured out from all of our guests
when they stand on the glass benches.
- Okay. You ready? - This is comfortable, though.
I got to like it now.
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- “The Loupe” is the world's
only rotating glass floor of its kind and its size.
It can rotate clockwise and counterclockwise.
It can also stop, speed up and slow down.
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We get
a million
visitors on average from around the world each year.
But the hot secret tip is to come early,
especially during the summer months
when it's clear and the views are amazing.
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Every time, every experience
that you come up to the top of the Space Needle,
you're going to find something
a little unique and different.
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Aviation's
been a part of the northwest for a long,
long time, almost since the very beginning.
- This is the Museum of Flight.
It first started in the mid 60s,
where a group of people decided
they wanted to save
some of this northwest aviation history.
So they formed a society.
It's very small space near the Space Needle.
And now we're
the largest independent
air and space museum in the world.
This gallery, we call it the Great Gallery
for obvious reasons, because it's pretty great.
It's a look at maybe the first 100 years of flight.
Everything from the Wright
brothers first flier to things like
the Lockheed Blackbird from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s.
We have one whole building that's dedicated to World
War one and World War
Two fighter aircraft, and the story of those wars.
We have a building across the street
that is more or less dedicated
to the story of the Space Shuttle,
the Space Shuttle trainer.
That's something that you can't see anywhere else.
NASA only made one of them like this.
It was used to train
every single person that flew on the Space Shuttle
and then next to it, which used to be
just an open space we called the air Park.
That's been covered.
So that's a three acre pavilion.
That's where we keep all the large airplanes.
We've got to the very first Air Force One jet
that dates back to the late
1950s with President Eisenhower,
and it went on for several presidents after that.
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Concorde is here.
Its last flight was from New York to Seattle.
Along the way, it set a speed record
for our crossing that distance.
You don't
have to be an aviation or space geek or enthusiast
to appreciate it, because there are so many
different shapes,
so many ways of looking at this whole problem
and the challenge of flight.
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- We are at the Olympic Sculpture Park,
one of three sites of the Seattle Art Museum.
This site was designed and imagined
dreamed up to be a museum without walls.
Collaboration between Seattle
Art Museum and the Trust for Public Land
to purchase, abandoned toxic brownfield
and to remediate it to create this
beautiful, accessible green space full of art.
It's nine acres of four different
natural zones
with over 20 artworks throughout the park.
The artists that you'll find
at the park represent
national and international scope.
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Really incredible artists
that you can see for free 365 days a year.
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One of the most iconic works at the sculpture
park is Alexander Calder's Eagle,
which soars up into the sky
and its signature Calder red.
Almost every sculpture that you see
at the sculpture
park is a permanent part of the park,
and is part of the Seattle
Art museums permanent collection.
The exception to that right now is AI Weiwei's
Zodiac Heads, which we are very happy
to have installed through October 2027.
What really makes this park
special is the intersection,
the marriage
between the urban environment
and the natural environment,
as well as that marriage between art and landscape.
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It really encompasses a little bit of everything.
You get these gorgeous views,
you get the
nature, experience and the art experience all at one.
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Seattle's mission is to connect
art to life, and nowhere is that more in evidence
than at the Olympic Sculpture Park.
It's an integrated part of the urban landscape
and of the community around it.
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- It's the place to come to discover our city.
You're at the Museum of
History and Industry here in Seattle, Washington.
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About 60 years ago, people got together
and said, hey,
this is a fast changing city,
but let's hold on to
some of our good things.
Let's hold on to the character
that made us strong.
The values that we hold dear.
Let's have a museum that really celebrates
what's special about Seattle
and the Museum of History and Industry is born.
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Even if you've lived here a lifetime, you're going
to find something new.
But some of the favorite artifacts
are the very first commercial airplane
that Boeing ever built.
You can see slo mo, for which old timers
will remember, was the hydroplane
that set the world's water speed record.
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It's a great place during the summer,
especially to bring your out-of-town visitors.
You know, they've landed in this beautiful city,
maybe for the first time.
Start your visit right here at Mo High.
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It's so much fun to share it, to share
special surprises,
to share longtime favorites,
to really remind people about why
this is a great community
and why we're so proud to call Seattle home.
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