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2101 N Northlake Way
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) 684-4075

Gas Works Park incorporates numerous pieces of the old plant. Some stand as ruins, while others have been reconditioned, painted, and incorporated into a children's "play barn" structure, constructed in part from what was the plant's exhauster-compressor building. A Web site affiliated with The Seattle Times newspaper says, "Gas Works Park is easily the strangest park in Seattle, and may rank among the strangest in the world." Gas Works Park also features an artificial kite-flying hill with an elaborately sculptured sundial built into its summit. The park was for many years the exclusive site of a summer series of "Peace Concerts." These concerts are now shared out among several Seattle parks. The park also has for many years hosted one of Seattle's two major Fourth of July fireworks events; in 2009 it was the sole such event. The park is the traditional end point of the Solstice Cyclists and the start point for Seattle's World Naked Bike Ride. The park originally constituted one end of the Burke-Gilman bicycle and foot trail, laid out along the abandoned right-of-way of the Seattle, Lake Shore and Eastern Railway. However, the trail has now been extended several kilometers northwest, past the Fremont neighborhood towards Ballard. "PeaceWorks Park" anti-war protest at Gas Works, 1990 The soil and groundwater of the site was contaminated during operation as a gasification plant. The 1971 Master Plan called for "cleaning and greening" the park through bio-phytoremediation. Although the presence of organic pollutants had been substantially reduced by the mid-1980s, the US Environmental Protection Agency and Washington State Department of Ecology required additional measures, including removing and capping wastes, and air sparging in the Southeast portion of the site to try to remove benzene that was a theoretical source of pollutants reaching Lake Union via ground water. There are no known areas of surface soil contamination remaining on the site today, although tar occasionally still oozes from some locations within the site and is isolated and removed. Despite its somewhat isolated location, the park has been the site of numerous political rallies. These included a seven-month continuous vigil under the name PeaceWorks Park, in opposition to the Gulf War. The vigil began at a peace concert in August 1990 and continued until after the end of the shooting war. Among the people who participated in the vigil at one point or another were former congressman and future governor Mike Lowry, then-city-councilperson Sue Donaldson, 1960s icon Timothy Leary, and beat poet Allen Ginsberg. Gas Works Park has been a setting for films, such as Singles and 10 Things I Hate About You. It has been featured twice on the travel-based television reality show The Amazing Race: once as the finish line for Season 3 and another time as the starting line for Season 10. The building is a Seattle City Landmark and a Washington State Landmark.

Lake Washington Rowing Club is an organization in the greater Seattle area to further the sport of rowing. It trains people ranging in experience from beginners to Olympic-caliber rowers. The club emphasizes mastery of boat-handling skills and values sculling as the principal path to excellence in all types of rowing.

Der Fremont Troll ist eine Plastik, die sich unter dem Nordende der George Washington Memorial Bridge (auch Aurora Bridge) in der Troll Avenue North im Stadtteil Fremont von Seattle im US-Bundesstaat Washington befindet.BeschreibungDas zirka 5,50 Meter hohe Kunstwerk zeigt Kopf, Schultern und Arme eines Ungeheuers, das in seiner linken Hand einen VW-Käfer zerquetscht. Sein linkes Auge enthält ein Metallelement, wohl eine Radkappe. In dem Käfer, den der Troll festhält, befanden sich ursprünglich Erinnerungsstücke an Elvis Presley, außerdem trug das Fahrzeug ein Nummernschild mit Zulassung aus Kalifornien. Nach Vandalismus am Kunstwerk sind diese Elemente nicht mehr vorhanden. Die Statue besteht aus einem Stahlskelett mit Betonummantelung und wiegt 6350 kg.GeschichteDie Plastik wurde 1990 zu Halloween von Steve Badanes, Will Martin, Donna Walter und Ross Whitehead unter dem nördlichen Ende der Aurora Bridge anlässlich eines vom Fremont Arts Council veranstalteten Kunstwettbewerbs errichtet. Jeweils am 31. Oktober feiert die Gemeinde eine „Trollaween-Party“ zu Ehren des Fremont Trolls. Verbunden ist dieses Fest mit einem Umzug, der unter der Brücke beginnt und zu weiteren kuriosen Sehenswürdigkeiten der Gemeinde führt, unter anderem zur größten Lenin-Statue der USA.

Built as the "Helen" in 1926, in Back Bay, Biloxi, Mississippi by Jack Covacevich, for Thomas B. Denegre and his family, the Lavengro now works as a sail training vessel in the Puget Sound. We offer private 6-passenger charters upon request for $100 per hour, regardless of where we sail to, and free public sails every Sunday for the Center for Wooden Boats.

Als Tonaufnahme oder Tonaufzeichnung im engeren, technischen Sinn bezeichnet man die Aufzeichnung und Wiedergabe von Schall, also von Geräuschen, Tönen, Musik und Sprache, mit Audiorekordern. Sie ist gekennzeichnet durch die Trennung von Aufzeichnungs-, Speicher- und Wiedergabeverfahren und kann mechanisch (Rillen in Walzen, Schallplatten oder auf anderen geeigneten Feststoffen), magnetisch (Tonband), optisch (Lichtton von Kinofilmen) oder auch digital erfolgen, Letzteres auf magnetischen (Floppy Disk, Festplatte, DAT) oder optischen (CD, DVD) Medien oder auch auf unbeweglichen digitalen Speichern (Festwertspeicher, ROM).AbgrenzungVielfach wird im Zusammenhang mit der Mikrofonierung von der Abnahme von Instrumenten gesprochen (etwa: „dieses Mikrofon ist besonders für die Abnahme von Gitarren geeignet…“). Zu beachten ist, dass bei exakter Ausdrucksweise ein Schallereignis nur dann abgenommen wird, wenn vom Schallwandler Körperschall am Schallerzeuger aufgenommen wird – ohne Umweg über die Luft. Dementsprechend heißen solche Systeme auch Tonabnehmer. Mikrofone hingegen befinden sich in einem Schallfeld in der Luft.