The OK Hotel sits at two hundred twelve Alaskan Way South, a four-story brick structure that was constructed in nineteen fourteen. Its exterior features a prominent classical cornice and rectangular brick facade, elements once hidden for…
90s Seattle Cinema
This tour takes you to iconic filming locations across the city that defined Seattle on screen in the 1990s. We'll visit sites from legendary teen classics, corporate thrillers, and era-defining indie hits.
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1. OK Hotel Apartments
2. Pioneer Square Pergola
The cast-iron and glass canopy standing at the corner of First Avenue and Yesler Way is the Pioneer Square Pergola. Built in nineteen oh nine to shelter passengers waiting for cable cars, its ornate Corinthian columns and glass roof were…
3. Smith Tower
The Smith Tower stands out for its gleaming white terra-cotta exterior, which rises into a distinctive pyramid-shaped cap above the surrounding neighborhood. When it opened in nineteen fourteen, this thirty-eight-story structure was the…
4. Fairmont Olympic Hotel, Seattle
The Fairmont Olympic Hotel sits on the full city block once occupied by the original campus of the University of Washington. You can distinguish the twelve-story structure by its buff-faced brick and terra cotta trim, designed in an…
5. Volunteer Park
Volunteer Park is a forty-eight-acre landscape park on Capitol Hill that you can identify by the tall, brick water tower rising at its center. The city acquired this land in eighteen seventy-six, and it briefly served as a cemetery before…
6. Washington Park Arboretum
The Washington Park Arboretum spans two hundred thirty acres of wetlands, woodlands, and gardens, defined by its extensive collection of maples and oaks. In the nineteen ninety-four corporate thriller Disclosure, this sprawling greenery…
7. Gas Works Park
Gas Works Park is defined by the rusted, towering steel skeletons of a former coal gasification plant that rise above the north shore of Lake Union. This nineteen-acre site houses the last remaining remnants of a coal gasification facility…
8. Fremont Troll
The Fremont Troll is a colossal, eighteen-foot-tall sculpture of a creature from folklore, crouching under the north end of the George Washington Memorial Bridge. It is made of steel rebar, wire, and two tons of concrete, and it is most…
9. Kerry Park
Kerry Park is defined by a low concrete wall stretching along West Highland Drive, where a constant line of people leans over to photograph the city skyline below. This one-acre park sits on the southern slope of Queen Anne Hill and…