Dre's Seattle

Dre 206's Seattle

Seattle is the largest city in the state of Washington. It is the home of the Space Needle and a monorail, which were built for the 1962 World's Fair. It is also the American headquarters of Microsoft, Starbucks coffee, Amazon.com, Washington Mutual, and Nordstrom. In the 1980s and 1990s, grunge music artists like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and others made the city really popular. It is also the setting of the TV shows Here Come the Brides, Frasier, and Grey's Anatomy.

Seattle has many sports teams, including the Seattle Mariners (baseball), the Seattle Supersonics, the Seahawks, and the Seattle Storm. Seattle has a lot of water around it, with Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean to the west and Lake Washington to the east. About 500,000 people live in the city. More than 3,000,000 (3 million) people live in the city or near it.

The University of Washington is in Seattle.

-Courtesy of Wikipedia 2006