Blue
From the Columbia Tower observation deck:
Karlo G
That’s a ferry departing at the bottom left. You can just barely see one approaching or leaving Winslow at the top – the tiny speck between two points of land.
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From the Columbia Tower observation deck:
Karlo G
That’s a ferry departing at the bottom left. You can just barely see one approaching or leaving Winslow at the top – the tiny speck between two points of land.
Oooh, it’s even better in full-sized glory instead of the tiny facebook version.
Time to change my desktop photo, I think.
That is really something!! So blue. So mountainy. So pretty.
Am I right to assume that The Columbia Tower was once known as The Space Needle?
Nope! They’re two different things. If you could pan this photo to the right you’d be able to see the Needle a mile or two away. It’s at the bottom of the hill I live at the top of. The Columbia tower is a 75-story building downtown, completed in 1985. It’s by far our tallest building and the tallest west of…something, the Rockies or St Louis or something.
Both are places people go for spectacular views. MrFancyPants yesterday found and shared with me a webcam at the top of the Needle, which refreshes its view every ten minutes. Coolest thing ever! That inspired me to see if there’s one on the other tall thing, and there isn’t but there are several panoramas on its webpage, and Yelp has nearly 500 photos.
It has the most storeys and the highest public viewing area, but the US Bank Tower in downtown Los Angeles is taller. They’re the second and first tallest buildings west of the Mississippi. (For now. One’s going up not far from the Bank Tower that will be tallest when completed.)
I can see the Bank Tower–and new taller building under construction–from my fire escape, which is why I know this trivia.
Ah! Thank you. I was thinking there had to be a taller one in LA, hence the waffling.
Well it’s taller than any office building in Canada.
Great view. Seattle is among the best places in America to live. Visited years ago and just loved the place.