VirtualGlobetrotting: Washington: Olympia

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Courtney Love's House
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By: tlp333.
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The rock musician and actress owns this residence. She is known as the lead singer and lyricist for the alternative rock band "Hole" and for her 2-year marriage to the late "Nirvana" singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain. She purchased the 5-bed, 2.75-bath, 3,603 sq ft home in January of 1995 for $447K, according to public records.

Courtney Love's House (former)
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By: tlp333.
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This is the historic 3-bed, 1.5-bath, 2,624 sq ft bungalow that went into foreclosure in 2006 that was owned by the rock musician and actress. She is known as the lead singer and lyricist for the alternative rock band "Hole" and for her 2-year marriage to the late "Nirvana" singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain. Much of her current and former real estate portfolio is also featured on this site.

Washington State Governor's Mansion
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By: jbottero.
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Home of Washington State's "Top Bananna."

Washington State Capitol
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By: TexasAndroid.

Olympia Brewing Company (Closed)
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By: jbottero.
The Olympia Brewing Company began brewing Olympia Beer at the Olympia Brewery in 1896 at the Tumwater Falls of the Deschutes River and continued until Prohibition. It was founded by Leopold Schmidt, a German immigrant living in Montana. After Prohibition ended, a new brewery was erected just upstream from the original.
As with many other regional breweries, ownership of this brewery eventually passed through several corporations including Pabst, G. Heileman, and Stroh's, until the brewery was eventually purchased by SABMiller. For a time, the Olympia brewery took over the brewing of other Pacific Northwest brands as their original breweries were closed one by one, including the Lucky Lager brewery in Vancouver, Washington, the Henry Weinhard's brewery in Portland, Oregon, and the Rainier Beer brewery in Seattle, Washington. Miller closed the Olympia brewery on July 1, 2003 citing the unprofitability of such a small brewery.

Centennial Amtrak Station
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By: jbottero.
Centennial Station is an Amtrak station for the Coast Starlight and Amtrak Cascades passenger trains serving Lacey and Olympia, Washington.
The original Union Pacific station at East Olympia was demolished in the late 1960s. It was used by the pool trains that ran between Seattle and Portland by all 3 railroads that used the line, Northern Pacific, Great Northern, and Union Pacific. Amtrak trains during the 1970s and 1980s used a wooden shelter as East Olympia's passenger train station, however the station site was remote and had no public transport, no lighting and a pot-holed gravel parking lot with a public telephone that rarely worked.
The new Centennial Station was built by the non-profit Amtrak Depot Committee and opened in early 1994 following a 6-year fundraising and lobbying effort by citizens of Thurston County. It is believed to be the only Amtrak station in the nation operated entirely by volunteers.

The Evergreen State College
The Evergreen State College, is an accredited public liberal arts college and is a member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges that is located in Olympia, Washington. Founded in 1967, Evergreen was formed to be an experimental and non-traditional college. Faculty issue narrative evaluations of students' work rather than grades, and Evergreen organizes most studies into largely interdisciplinary classes that generally constitute a full-time course load.

Huge Wind Turbine Blades
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.
Fabricated in Latin America and bound for wind farms in Alberta via the port of Olympia. The blades are each 137 feet long.

North American Aviation B-25J "Mitchell" "Maid in the Shade"
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By: kjfitz.
This plane was manufactured at the North American Aviation plant in Kansas City and delivered to the U.S. Army Air Force on June 9, 1944. It then was flown to Hunter Field, Savannah, Georgia on June 24 then onto Morrison Field, Florida where it was readied for deployment to the Mediterranean Theatre of Operation.
On July 7, 1944, this aircraft departed Morrison Field and followed the southern route through Brazil, then across the Atlantic to Africa where it was delivered to the 3rd Air Facility Depot. Later that fall it was picked up by the 319th Bomb Group, 437th Squadron at Serraggia Airbase, Corsica. There it was assigned Battle Number 18. The plane then proceeded to fly 15 combat missions over Italy between November 4 and December 31, 1944. The majority of the targets were railroad bridges.

Vintage Aircraft at Olympia Municipal Airport
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By: Pdunn.

Huey Heaven
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By: Pdunn.
Where good helicopters go to be born again.

Giant bull, cow and calf sculptures
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By: kjfitz.

The Evergreen State College
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By: kkeps.

Olympic Flight Museum
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By: adrbr.
The museum has more than 20 vintage planes and helicopters on display, most of which are in airworthy condition. Children can climb in such as the mobile Huey and T-28 Trojan. There is a scale model airplane display. See up close an airworthy and pristine P-51 Mustang, a replica A6M Zero, T-6 Texan WWII trainer, and several helicopters including a HH-43 Huskie and an OH-6 Cayuse (Loach).

'Untitled' by Lee Kelly
pmoore66 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pmoore66.
1973

Labyrinth
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By: adrbr.

Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge
Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge, on the Nisqually River Delta in southern Puget Sound, was established in 1974 for the protection of migratory birds. Three thousand acres of salt and freshwater marshes, grasslands, riparian, and mixed forest habitats provide resting and nesting areas for migratory waterfowl, songbirds, raptors, and wading birds.

Story Pole (taken down)
mlc1us (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: mlc1us.
The 70-year-old pole was taken down just after Election Day (2 Nov 2010) because its core had decayed to the point that it posed a safety hazard in the November winds.

Schilter Farm Corn Maze
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By: adrbr.

Olympia Skatepark

Fish Brewery
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By: Matheus_.

Corn maze

Yet Another Pumper...

Olympia Theater
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In the Stalls...
Squint! You can see them...

'Winged Victory' by Alonzo Victor Lewis
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By: kkeps.

Mean Machines

'Trapezoid Square' by Robert Maki
pmoore66 (VirtualGlobetrotting)
By: pmoore66.
1975

Loneley Pumper

Google trike
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By: Rene73.

UPS truck