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Did you know ...

• loans made by Seattle brothel-owner Lou Graham saved some of the city's most prestigious families from bankruptcy after the Panic of 1893?
• shortly after architect Ralph Anderson's early "modernist glass-box phase" he began rehabilitating turn-of-the-century buildings (example pictured) in Seattle's Pioneer Square district?
• it was feared Seattle's Art Deco-styled Naval Reserve Armory would become a white elephant?
• before becoming mayor of Seattle in 1912, George F. Cotterill had been instrumental in platting its piers, building its sewers, and innovating its mode of financing major utility projects?
• banker Jacob Furth, whom historian Bill Speidel called "Seattle's leading citizen for thirty years," began his career as a confectioner in Budapest?
• because Seattle's Central Waterfront piers are not zoned as residential, the 1998 shoot of The Real World: Seattle officially treated Pier 70 as a 24-hour-a-day film set?
• the Japanese American internment during World War II cost Seattle's Lincoln High School the presidents of its two service clubs and the editor of its school newspaper?
• the Seattle's Pike Place Market (pictured) was created partly in response to price gouging?
• the permanent collection on display at Ye Olde Curiosity Shop in Seattle, Washington includes "Sylvester" (pictured), an excellently preserved mummy?
• the recent Capitol Hill massacre is regarded as the worst mass-killing in Seattle since the 1983 Wah Mee Massacre?
• the basement of Seattle's Temple De Hirsch (pictured) was the site of Jimi Hendrix's first professional gig?
• the Chimakum tribe of Native Americans were wiped out in 1847 by a Suquamish war party led by Chief Seattle, for whom the city of Seattle was later named?
• the Cambridgeshire Cats American football team were briefly known as the "Cambridge Crunchers" following a sponsorship deal with a Seattle-based apple export company?
• a CD by hazzan Samuel Benaroya of Seattle, Washington's Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation is one of the few recordings of Ottoman Hebrew sacred music?
• Initiative 1068 was filed in January 2010 by Seattle activists hoping to remove criminal penalties from the adult use, possession and cultivation of marijuana in Washington?
• a park in Seattle is named after Terry Pettus, a onetime Communist whose conviction for conspiracy to overthrow the U.S. government was overturned by the Supreme Court?
• bikini baristas can be found mixing up coffee drinks all over the Seattle area?
• Seattle-based company Sur La Table is the second-largest specialty cookware retailer in the United States, after Williams-Sonoma?
• Seattle's Ballard Carnegie Library remains standing 44 years after it was sold, despite experts' claims that it would not survive an earthquake?
• Mississippi-born Joshua Green had successive careers as a major figure in the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet and as a Seattle banker?
• Marra Farm is one of only two historic agricultural parcels inside Seattle, Washington, city limits that retains an agricultural use today?
• Ohaveth Sholum Congregation, Seattle's first Jewish congregation, fell four days short of having the first synagogue in Washington?
• The Edgewater, an over-water hotel on Seattle's Central Waterfront, used to advertise that you could "fish from your room"?
• The Squirrels, Seattle-based practitioners of the "Frankenstein method of song arrangement", recorded a "Stars on 45"-style medley of songs from The Wizard of Oz, which was among the 142 7-inch records that British DJ John Peel set aside in a box to grab if his house ever caught fire?
• Schwabacher's Wharf (pictured) survived the Great Seattle Fire, received the first "ton of gold" from the Yukon, and was the terminus for Seattle's first shipping trade route to the Orient?
• Reginald H. Thomson, the civil engineer responsible for "virtually all of Seattle's infrastructure", had a Ph.D. in philosophy?
• PK Dwyer is credited with forming the first-ever street band to busk at Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington?
• 1930s Federal Theatre Project director Hallie Flanagan considered Seattle's Playhouse Theatre to be the project's best "Negro unit"?