World Travel - Seattle May. 2014 | Page 4

1. Seattle's climate is usually described as oceanic or temperate marine, with cool, wet winters and warm, relatively dry summers. Seattle is known as the rainy city; however, Seattle has been selling more sunglasses than any other city in America. 2. In 1926 America had her first female mayor, when Seattle has been leading the way with Bertha Landes. 3. Seattle has more than 1500 bookstore, is the city with more bookstore in all America, therefore in 2010 the Seattle times, published that Seattle was reading more than any other city in America. 4. In 2012 Seattle was blowing glass more than any other city in the world, so Seattle became in the capital of glass blowing. 5. The people in Seattle were riding the biggest great wheel on the west coast of the United States when it opened on June 29, 2012. 6. December 15, 1999. It was raining over Seattle for more than 365 hours continuously, never happened something similar like that again. 7. Starbucks is the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with 20,891 stores in the world; nevertheless Seattle was building more Starbucks than any other city in the entire world, now Seattle count with more than 1,000 Starbucks in all Cities. 8. One of the amazing facts about Seattle is than in this city many people were living on boats, at least a quarter of the population of Seattle, were living this life. 9. If you were thinking about going to a theme park, Seattle is the wrong city, the city is considered to rainy for them to be profitable. 10. Seattle is famous for the live concerts in summer, and in the 90’s the city was becoming famous for the live rock concert that the city offered to the general public. 4