Capitol Hill

Capitol Hill is the second most densely populated neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, after Belltown (north of downtown). It is the center of gay life in Seattle and also a center of the city's counterculture, while also home to some of the city's grandest mansions and many attractions. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (394x698, 13 KB)Map of Seattle, Washington with Capitol Hill neighborhood highlighted. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (394x698, 13 KB)Map of Seattle, Washington with Capitol Hill neighborhood highlighted. ... A neighbourhood or neighborhood (see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community located within a larger city or suburb. ... Seattle redirects here. ... Belltown Belltown is the most densely populated neighbourhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, located on the citys downtown waterfront. ... GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... In sociology, counterculture is a term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition. ...

The origin of the neighborhood's name is disputed. According to one story, James A. Moore, the real estate developer who platted much of the area, named it thus in the hope that the Washington government would move to Seattle from Olympia. According to another, Moore named it after the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado, his wife's hometown. It is thought by the editors of HistoryLink that the true story is a combination of the two. Real estate is a legal term that encompasses land along with anything permanently affixed to the land, such as buildings. ... A contemporary plat map showing the location of a property for sale. ... For the capital city of the United States, see Washington, D.C.. For other uses, see Washington (disambiguation). ... Coordinates: , Country State County Thurston Incorporated January 28, 1859 Government  - Mayor Mark Foutch Area  - Total 18. ... Colorado State Capitol Building, at the western edge of the Capitol Hill neighborhood Located in the City and County of Denver, the Capitol Hill neighborhood is bounded by the major arteries of Broadway, Downing Street, Colfax Avenue, and Sixth Avenue, which carry large volumes of traffic around the neighborhood. ... Nickname: Location of Denver in Colorado Location of Colorado in the United States Coordinates: , Country State Founded [1] November 22, 1858 Incorporated November 7, 1861 Government  - Type Strong Mayor/Weak Council  - Mayor John Hickenlooper (D) Area [1]  - City & County  154. ...

Prior to Moore's naming it so in 1901, Capitol Hill was known as Broadway Hill. Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

Due to its one-time large Roman Catholic population, Capitol Hill was frequently referred to as Catholic Hill up until the 1950s.^{[citation needed]} The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...

Geography

Capitol Hill, seen across Lake Union and the Eastlake neighborhood, looking east from Queen Anne.

Capitol Hill is bounded by Interstate 5 to the west, beyond which are Downtown, Cascade, and Eastlake; by Washington State Route 520 and Interlaken Park to the north, beyond which is Montlake; by E. Pike and E. Madison Streets to the south, beyond which are First Hill and the Central District; and by 23rd and 24th Avenues E. to the east, beyond which is Madison Valley. Image File history File links Capitolhill2. ... Image File history File links Capitolhill2. ... Lake Union from atop the Space Needle Lake Union is a freshwater lake completely within the Seattle, Washington city limits. ... Eastlake Eastlake stretches between I-5 and Lake Union The former City Light Plant No. ... Queen Anne Queen Anne Hill is a neighborhood and hill in Seattle, Washington. ... Interstate 5 (abbreviated I-5) is the westernmost interstate highway in the continental United States. ... Downtown Seattle, from top of Space Needle (looking south) Map of downtown Seattle Downtown is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington. ... Bold text Cascade Cascade is a small neighborhood abutting Downtown Seattle. ... Eastlake Eastlake stretches between I-5 and Lake Union The former City Light Plant No. ... State Route 520 is a state highway and freeway in the U.S. state of Washington. ... Interlaken Park is a 51. ... Montlake is a generally quiet neighborhood in central Seattle. ... First Hill is a neighborhood in Seattle, Washington, named for the hill on which it is located. ... Central District The Central District is a mostly residential neighborhood in Seattle located east of First Hill, west of Madrona and Leschi, south of Capitol Hill, and north of Rainier Valley. ... Madison Valley is a neighborhood in Seattle located east of Capitol Hill; west of Washington Park; south of the Montlake; and north of the Central District. ...

Its main thoroughfares are Lakeview Boulevard E.; Bellevue, 10th, 12th, 15th, and 19th Avenues E.; and Broadway (north- and southbound) and E. Pine, E. Pike, E. John, E. Thomas, and E. Aloha Streets and E. Olive Way (east- and westbound). Of these streets, large portions of Pike, Pine, Broadway, 15th and, to a slightly lesser extent, Olive, are lined almost continuously with streetfront businesses.

The highest point on Capitol Hill, at 444.5 feet above sea level, is in Volunteer Park, adjacent to the water tower. Capitol Hill is also responsible for half of Seattle's 12 steepest street grades: 21% on E. Roy Street between 25th and 26th Avenues E. (eastern slope), 19% on E. Boston Street between Harvard Avenue E. and Broadway E. (western slope) and on E. Ward Street between 25th and 26th Avenues E. (eastern slope), and 18% on E. Highland Drive between 24th and 25th Avenues E. (eastern slope), on E. Lee Street between 24th and 25th Avenues E. (eastern slope), and on E. Roy Street between Melrose and Bellevue Avenues E. (western slope). Volunteer Park is a 48. ... The mushroom-shaped concrete water tower of Roihuvuori in Helsinki, Finland was built in the 1970s. ... A grade (or gradient) is the pitch of a slope, and is often expressed as a percent tangent, or rise over run. It is used to express the steepness of slope on a hill, stream, roof, railroad, or road, where zero indicates level (with respect to gravity) and increasing numbers...

History

Capitol Hill contains some of Seattle's most wealithiest districts, including "Millionaire's Row" along 14th Avenue E. south of Volunteer Park and the Harvard Belmont Landmark District. It also has many distinguished apartment houses, including several by Fred Anhalt. However, the neighborhood did not fare so well in terms of architecture in the decades immediately after World War II. Architect Victor Steinbrueck wrote in 1962 of the "tremendous growth of less-than-luxury apartments" that at first "appear to be consistent with the clean, direct approach associated with contemporary architecture" but whose "open outdoor corridors" totally defeat their "large 'view' windows" by giving occupants no privacy if they leave their blinds open to enjoy the view. "Most tenants close their blinds and look for another apartment when their lease runs out."^[1] Fred Anhalt was a designer and self-taught builder of many distinguished apartment buildings in Seattle around the 1920s and early 1930s. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... Victor Steinbrueck (1911, Mandan, North Dakota - 1985) was an American architect based in Seattle, Washington, and best known for his efforts to preserve the citys Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market. ...

Ambience

Capitol Hill c. 1917

A Frederick Anhalt apartment building on Harvard Avenue E.

Always an eclectic neighborhood, since about 1980 Capitol Hill has also had a reputation as the center of gay life in Seattle, although it has never been as exclusively gay as The Castro in San Francisco. Image File history File links Seattle_Capitol_Hill_postcard. ... Image File history File links Seattle_Capitol_Hill_postcard. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixels, file size: 884 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixels, file size: 884 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... GAY can mean: Gay, a term referring to homosexual men or women The IATA code for Gaya Airport Category: ... The sidewalk on Castro Street looking north from 18th toward Market displays some of the color of the neighborhood. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...

It also has a reputation as the heart of trendy Seattle, and was the neighborhood most closely associated with the grunge scene, although most of the best-known music venues of that era were actually located slightly outside the neighborhood. Further, Capitol Hill is heavily associated with drugs and street life by area residents. In this sense, the neighborhood more closely resembles San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood than The Castro. Grunge music (sometimes also referred to as the Seattle Sound) is an independent-rooted music genre that became a commercially successful offshoot of hardcore punk, thrash metal, and alternative rock in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ... Corner of Haight and Ashbury The Haight-Ashbury is a district of San Francisco, California, USA named for the intersection of Haight and Ashbury Streets, commonly known as The Haight. ... The sidewalk on Castro Street looking north from 18th toward Market displays some of the color of the neighborhood. ...

A stroll down Broadway or through Cal Anderson Park reveals a wide diversity of people, with couples walking dogs, punks hanging out on street corners, technology workers who commute to work across Lake Washington buying groceries and, in the evenings, club-goers from all over Seattle and Bellevue visiting the scene for a night out. Shopping in the numerous retail stores and boutiques offers everything from African art to Hot Topic and there are many used and vintage clothing stores on Broadway, a few art galleries along East Pike and Pine Streets, and music stores specializing in hip-hop, dance and electronica, gothic and industrial, or rare used records. Cal Anderson Park is a public park on Seattle, Washingtons Capitol Hill that includes Lincoln Reservoir and Bobby Morris Playfield. ... Location of Bellevue within King County, Washington, and King County within Washington. ... Yoruba bronze head sculpture, Ife, Nigeria c. ... For the Le Tigre song, see Hot Topic (Song). ... The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. ...

Most of the Hill's major thoroughfares are dotted with coffeehouses, taverns and bars, and residences cover the gamut from modest motel-like studio apartment buildings to some of the city's grandest and most venerable mansions, with the two extremes sometimes cheek-by-jowl. Discussing the War in a Paris Café, Illustrated London News 17 September 1870 Coffee shop redirects here. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Holiday Inn Great Sign Exterior of a Howard Johnsons motor lodge. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

The neighborhood figures prominently in nightlife and entertainment, with many bars hosting live music and with numerous fringe theatres. Capitol Hill is also home to two of the city's best-known movie theaters, both of them part of the Landmark Theatres chain and both of them architectural conversions of private meeting halls: the Harvard Exit, in the former home of the Women's Century Club (converted in the early 1970s) and the Egyptian Theatre, in a former Masonic lodge (converted in the mid-1980s). The Broadway Performance Hall, located on the campus of Seattle Central Community College, also hosts a variety of lectures, performances, and films. Fringe theatre is a term used to describe alternative theatre, or entertainment not of the mainstream. ... The River Oaks Theatre, located east of the River Oaks neighborhood in the River Oaks Shopping Center, is one of Landmark Theatres two Houston, Texas theatres. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, also called The Seventies. ... “Freemasons” redirects here. ... The 1980s refers to the years from 1980 to 1989. ... The Seattle Community College District is a group of community colleges located in Seattle, Washington. ...

Landmarks and institutions

Registered Historic Places

Kerry Hall, the original building of the Cornish School and now the last piece of the Cornish College of the Arts remaining on the Hill (the rest is now in the Denny Triangle).

• Harvard Belmont Landmark District
  • The original Cornish School building of the Cornish College of the Arts.
• Temple De Hirsch Sinai [1] (but the historic Temple De Hirsch was largely demolished in 1992: only a few columns and the front entrance remain).
• Volunteer Park
  • Seattle Asian Art Museum
  • Volunteer Park Conservatory

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Other

• Cal Anderson Park
• Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery
• Holy Names Academy
• Lake View Cemetery
• Louisa Boren Park
• Roanoke Park
• St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral
• Seattle Central Community College
• Seattle Hebrew Academy
• Seattle Preparatory School
• Thomas Street Park

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Bars and Clubs

A club from a much earlier era: a sign over the rear door of the Harvard Exit Theater preserves the memory of the Women's Century Club.

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Past

At least since the 1970s, Capitol Hill has played a prominent role in Seattle's nightlife. Prominent bars in the 1970s, inevitably also full-scale restaurants, were the upmarket, elegant Henry's Off Broadway, owned by The Schwartz Brothers, local Restaurant and Business Entrepreneurs Bill and John Schwartz, and two Broadway "fern bars" owned by Gerry Kingen. (Kingen also turned the Red Robin from a single tavern at the southern end of the University Bridge into a restaurant chain.) The bars at his Boondocker's, Sundecker's, & Greenthumb's and Lion O'Reilly's & BJ Monkeyshines were both popular with a young crowd, mostly heterosexual and single. Lion O'Reilly's had a last hurrah as "Lion O's Rock Hard Cafe", which resulted in legal action by the Hard Rock Cafe chain. Surviving from that era, with a rougher-hewn version of the same style, is Canterbury Ales and Eats on 15th Avenue E. This article is about the restaurant chain. ... University Bridge from the west; part of the Ship Canal Bridge is visible in the top right corner The University Bridge is a double-leaf bascule bridge that carries Eastlake Avenue traffic over Seattles Portage Bay between Eastlake and the University District. ... A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants, typically with the same name in many different locations either under shared corporate ownership (e. ... Hard Rock Cafe is a chain of casual dining restaurants. ...

With a similar look, but far more emblematic of what was to come, was the Brass Door (later known as Brass Connection when they secured a hard alcohol license) a bar and disco with a predominantly gay male crowd and occasional drag shows. It played a key role in moving the heart of Seattle's gay nightlife scene from relative hidey-holes, mainly in the Pioneer Square and Belltown neighborhoods, to higher-profile venues, mainly on Capitol Hill and especially in the Pike-Pine corridor. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Pioneer Square Pioneer Square is the neighborhood where Seattle, Washington was founded in 1853. ... Belltown Belltown is the most densely populated neighbourhood in Seattle, Washington, United States, located on the citys downtown waterfront. ...

In the late 1980s, another gay bar, Tugs Belltown, moved up to the Hill (corner of Pine and Belmont) and became Tugs Belmont. In this new venue, it played a key role in Seattle's burgeoning fringe theater scene. Possibly the first bar in Seattle since before the Prohibition era to regularly host theater performances, in the early 1990s it was the primary home of the Greek Active Theater, founded by Dan Savage (working pseudonymously as Keenan Hollohan). Fringe Theatre refers to a series of unjuried theatre festivals often called Fringe Festivals. ... The term Prohibition, also known as A Dry Law, refers to a law in a certain country by which the manufacture, transportation, import, export, and sale of alcoholic beverages is restricted or illegal. ... Dan Savage speaking at Bradley University Daniel Keenan Savage (born October 7, 1964[1] near Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an openly gay American sex advice columnist, author, media pundit, journalist, and newspaper editor. ...

Under Washington State's liquor laws, until the 1990s it was virtually impossible to have a bar that served hard liquor without having a full restaurant: at least 40% of revenues had to come from food. Drinking establishments were (and still are) divided into bars with full licenses and taverns that could sell only beer, wine, and hard cider.

The scene along the Pike-Pine corridor was never exclusively gay. In the 1990s Moe's, on Pike just east of Broadway (now the site of Neumo's) transformed a former Salvation Army facility into a combination bar, restaurant, and performance venue, with local and national acts as well as dance nights, and became for several years one of Seattle's most prominent musical performance venues. Now Neumo's and nearby Chop Suey continue that live music tradition and dozens of trendy (and friendly-but-divey) bars and clubs cater to gay- and straight-themed nightlife. Shield of The Salvation Army The Salvation Army is a non-military evangelical Christian organisation. ...

Current

The Chapel bar is located in the former Butterworth Funeral Home

The Bus Stop bar on E. Pine Street

• 22 Doors
• The Baltic Room
• Barça
• Bill's Off Broadway
• Bus Stop
• Cafe Metropolitain
• Capitol Club
• Capitol Hill Art Center Lower Level
• Canterbury Ales and Eats
• C.C. Attle's
• Cha Cha Lounge
• Chapel
• Charlie's
• Chop Suey (arguably just outside the boundaries of the neighborhood, but very much a part of the Capitol Hill scene)
• Clever Dunne's
• The Comet
• The Crescent
• The Cuff Complex
• Elysian Brewing Company
• The Hopvine
• The Honeyhole
• The Maharaja
• Kincora's Irish Pub
• Liberty
• Linda's
• Madison Pub
• Man Ray
• Martin's off Madison
• Mercury
• Moebar
• Neighbours
• Neumo's
• Purr
• R Place
• Rosebud Cafe
• The Satellite
• Seattle Eagle
• Six Arms
• Smith
• The Stumbling Monk
• Sugar
• Summit Public House
• The War Room
• Wild Rose

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Coffeehouses

Stacks of coffee beans ready for roasting at Cafe Vita.

Besides the inevitable large Seattle-based chains—Starbucks, Seattle's Best Coffee (now owned by Starbucks), and Tully's Coffee—Capitol Hill has been home to some of the city's most prominent locally owned coffeehouses. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixels, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2592 × 1944 pixels, file size: 1. ... For other meanings of the name Starbuck, see Starbuck. ... Seattles Best Coffee is a specialty coffee retailer and wholesaler based in Seattle, Washington, USA. It became part of Starbucks Corporation on July 14, 2003. ... Tullys Coffee is a specialty coffee retailer and wholesaler based in Seattle, Washington. ...

The now-defunct Cause Celebre coffeehouse and ice cream parlor on 15th Ave. E. started life as a worker-owned collective, but was eventually bought out by one of its founding members. From about 1978 until the mid-1980s, it declared itself to be "Capitol Hill's living room."

B&O Espresso (at the corner of Belmont Ave. E. and Olive Way, hence B&O: Belmont and Olive), founded 1976, could be considered one of Seattle's oldest surviving coffeehouses, except that it has transformed over the years into more of a restaurant. One of B&O's claims to fame is that the band Pearl Jam conceived of their name while at this coffeehouse.

Through most of the 1990s, the Cafe Paradiso (now the Caffe Vita on Pike) was one of the few all-ages music venues in Seattle, slipping through the cracks of the draconian Teen Dance Ordinance by being, in theory at least, a no-dancing venue. The Teen Dance Ordinance was a controversial Seattle law which severely curtailed the ability of concert and club promoters to hold events for underaged patrons. ...

The minuscule Coffee Messiah (early 1990s – 2006), decorated in religious kitsch, serving little but coffee and vegan pastries, was also an all-ages performance venue for several years. The crowd frequently spilled out onto the pavement (especially because they could not smoke inside). Acts ranged from punk rock to drag cabaret, including a cross between the two known as Pho Bang (which later continued at other venues).

Mezzanine seating, Bauhaus

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• Bauhaus Coffee
• Caffe Ladro (local chain)
• Caffe Vita (local chain)
• Cafe Dharwin
• Dilettante Chocolates Cafe & Patisserie
• Espresso Vivace (2 locations on the Hill)
• Faire
• Fuel Coffee
• Insomnia
• Joe Bar
• Kaladi Brothers
• Online Coffee
• Top Pot Doughnuts (local chain)
• Uncle Elizabeth's Internet Cafe'
• Victrola Coffee & Art

Several Capitol Hill coffeehouses use mezzanines or similar architectural devices to add more seating to their relatively small spaces; some take significant advantage of nearby sidewalks for additional seating. Espresso Vivace's Broadway location has only sidewalk seating, and that seating is technically on the property of the bank next door. Bauhaus takes advantage of its high ceiling not only for a massive wall of books (mostly encyclopedias and other reference books), but also to place additional seating over the food prep and serving area; it also spills out onto the sidewalk onto E. Pine Street and around the corner to Melrose, with sidewalk seats providing a view of the northern part of downtown. Mezzanine may refer to: Mezzanine (architecture), an intermediate floor between main floors of a building In technology, a mezzanine can refer to a thin sheet of plastic insulating different parts of circuitry from each other in cramped environments, such as laptop interiors. ...

Churches

Sign on the tower of All Pilgrims Church on Broadway makes it clear that gay people are welcome.

St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral dominates the North Capitol Hill skyline.

With the original establishment of the Capitol Hill neighborhood came a variety of churches. While many of these churches began as suburban congregations serving to establish the newest neighborhood of young Seattle, these churches have changed with the neighborhood to reach out to the poor and homeless, those people living with HIV as well as continuing their work of encouraging the faithful. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1944 × 2592 pixels, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1944 × 2592 pixels, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1200 pixels, file size: 718 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1200 pixels, file size: 718 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... St. ...

A few of the original churches include St Joseph's on 19th Ave, which anchored a large Roman Catholic population on the east slope. St. Mark Cathedral's imposing edifice overlooks the freeway on the west side and is home to a large Episcopal congregation and the seat of the bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia. All Pilgrims' Congregational Church on 10th Ave E comes from the congregation of first Christian Church joining Pilgrim's Congregational church after the Nisqually earthquake permanently damaged First's sanctuary (now demolished) across from SCCC. The Nisqually earthquake occurred on February 28, 2001, and was one of the largest recorded earthquakes in Washington state history. ...

There are a number of church plants on the hill as well. Grace Seattle, Presbyterian Church of America, meets at the Seventh Day Adventist facility. Church on the Hill was started by the Advent Church, which used to be on Madison; it meets at at the Capitol Hill Community Center. Sanctuary, Southern Baptist, meets at Piecora Pizza, and Church of the Undignified, Church of the Nazarene, has a storefront on Pike. Westminster Presbyterian Church—behind SCCC—became Capitol Hill Presbyterian (new church development) Easter 2006, when Church at the Center merged, with the liturgical music going from classical music to indie rock.

A number of immigrant populations worship throughout the neighborhood as the population diversifies, including Russian Orthodox, Ethiopean and Vietnamese. There is also a longstanding Greek Orthodox Church, the Church of the Assumption.

Jewish temples are represented by Alhadeff Sanctuary of Temple De Hirsch Sinai, a reform Jewish congregation.^[2] Reform Judaism can refer to (1) the largest denomination of American Jews and its sibling movements in other countries, (2) a branch of Judaism in the United Kingdom, and (3) the historical predecessor of the American movement that originated in 19th-century Germany. ...

Recent History

On the first day of the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999, protesters were driven out of Downtown Seattle and up Capitol Hill by police using tear gas, concussion grenades, and rubber bullets. Following the creation of a 46-block protective zone around the Washington State Convention and Trade Center on the second day, Capitol Hill became the focal point for protests as WTO protesters and residents protested the WTO and police use of force to disperse the crowds.^[3] On November 30, 1999, the World Trade Organization convened in Seattle, Washington, USA, for what was to be the launch of a new millennial round of trade negotiations. ... A Rainforest Action Network banner at Seattle during the protest. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Grenade redirects here. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Non-lethal round. ... City Blocks are a part of the fictional universe recounted in the Judge Dredd series that appears in the UK comic book 2000 AD. // Overview Also known as starscrapers or stratoscrapers (compare skyscraper), they are the most common form of mass-housing in Mega-City One, averaging a population of... The Washington State Convention and Trade Center is a convention center located next to and over Interstate 5 in downtown Seattle, Washington. ...

Most recently, Seattle suffered its worst mass-killing since the 1983 Wah Mee massacre when a 28-year-old man named Kyle Aaron Huff committed the Capitol Hill massacre on March 25, 2006. Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... The Wah Mee massacre was an incident on February 18, 1983, in which Kwan Fai (Willie) Mak, Wai-Chiu (Tony) Ng, and Benjamin Ng gunned down 14 people in the Wah Mee gambling club on Maynard Alley S. just south of S. King Street in Seattles Chinatown/International District... The cover of Seattle alternative weekly The Stranger for March 30, 2006, in commemoration of the shooting. ... The Capitol Hill massacre was a mass murder that occurred on the morning of Saturday, March 25, 2006, when 28-year-old Kyle Aaron Huff entered a rave afterparty in the southeast part of Seattles Capitol Hill neighborhood and opened fire, killing six and wounding two. ... is the 84th day of the year (85th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

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• A highly detailed and informative map of Capitol Hill on Wikimapia
• The Capitol Hill Block Party, which features local bands every summer.
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• Heather MacIntosh, Preservation in Capitol Hill, Preservation Seattle (online publication of Historic Seattle), February 2004
• Capitol Hill: The WebComic, A satirical cartoon about Seattle's Strangest neighborhood

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References

• Kathryn McGrath, "Clubless in Seattle", University of Washington Daily Online, October 3, 1996: on the Teen Dance Ordinance.