Bruce Lee in Seattle

This tour traces Bruce Lee's formative years in Seattle, visiting the neighborhoods where he lived, studied, and taught martial arts before finding global fame.

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1. Hing Hay Park

Hing Hay Park is a zero point six four-acre public space in Seattle’s Chinatown-International District, easily identified by a prominent, twenty-by-seventy-foot red metal gateway designed to resemble origami. Established in nineteen…

2. Seattle Chinatown-International District

The Chinatown-International District is marked by the presence of historic brick buildings and elaborate balconies that stand atop land once formed by massive regrading projects. This neighborhood, a central hub for Seattle's Asian…

3. Wing Luke Museum

The Wing Luke Museum occupies the East Kong Yick Building, a historic structure built in nineteen ten by Chinese immigrants. You can identify the museum by the way its street-level facade is designed to resemble an old-time Chinatown…

4. Seattle Central College

Seattle Central College is marked by the Broadway Performance Hall, a structure rebuilt from the central section of the city’s first high school, which opened on this site in nineteen oh two. This campus on Capitol Hill functions as a…

5. Lake View Cemetery

Lake View Cemetery sits on forty acres of hillside in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, easily identified by its open, park-like expanse that offers views toward Lake Washington. Founded in eighteen seventy-two by Seattle’s oldest Masonic…

6. University of Washington

The University of Washington is anchored by a sprawling seven-hundred-acre campus in the University District of Seattle. You can pick it out by the sheer density of its academic buildings and expansive green spaces that sit between the…

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