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Monorail on 5th Avenue

The Seattle Center Monorail is an elevated straddle-beam monorail line in Seattle, Washington, United States. The nearly mile-long (1.4 km) monorail runs mostly along 5th Avenue between Seattle Center and Westlake CenterinDowntown Seattle, making no intermediate stops. The monorail is a major tourist attraction but also operates as a regular public transit service with trains every ten minutes running for up to 16 hours per day. It was constructed in eight months for the 1962 world's fair, hosted at Seattle Center, and opened on March 24, 1962. The system retains its original fleet of two Alweg trains, each capable of carrying 450 people. The monorail's southern terminus was moved into Westlake Center in 1988 and the rest of the system was designated a historic landmark in 2003. The system remains under the ownership of the city government and is operated by a private company. Plans to expand the monorail's service area have been rejected or shelved several times since the 1960s. (Full article...)

Did you know ...

Security Bank Building

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Dennis Sullivan

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On this day

1898 Winton advertisement

• 1869 – New Zealand Wars: Māori leader Tītokowaru's conflict ended with the last of his forces surrendering to the New Zealand colonial government.
• 1898 – The Winton Motor Carriage Company (ad pictured), one of the first American car companies, sold its first unit.
• 1922 – Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, two men wearing police uniforms broke into a house and murderedaCatholic family in what was believed to be a reprisal for the deaths of two policemen the day before.
• 1934 – The Tydings–McDuffie Act came into effect, which provided for self-government of the Philippines and for Filipino independence from the United States after a period of ten years.
• 1980 – One day after making a plea to Salvadoran soldiers to stop carrying out the government's repression, Archbishop Óscar Romero was assassinated while celebrating MassinSan Salvador.