I just got back from a whirlwind tour of Seattle, one of America’s most beautiful cities.
Seattle Space Needle
The view from the top of the Space Needle is spectacular, even when it’s cloudy, as on this typical Seattle day:
Downtown Seattle
While there, I was able to catch up with some good friends from yesteryear, including Margaret Pelley (Larson), a former anchor at KCRA-TV. She’s now the host of New Day Northwest on KING-TV, the NBC station in Seattle.
Mike & Margaret
We worked together in Sacramento back in the 80’s — way before Al Gore invented the Internet. Margaret was nice enough to invite me on to her show to help publicize a book signing for Baseball Between Us at Elliott Bay Book Company, one of the largest independent book stores anywhere.
Elliott Bay Book Company
Here’s a video clip from the interview with Margaret:
One of the highlights in Seattle is EMP: Experience Music Project, featuring an entire wing of Jimi Hendrix memorabilia and music. Check out the sound room, where you can slip on a pair of headphones and play with an audio mixer while “Crosstown Traffic” is cranked to the max! Then fade down the percussion to hear the overdubs on the vocals and the multi-layers of sound that made Jimi’s music timeless. EMP is a project of Paul Allen of Microsoft fame and the building is designed by the famous architect Frank Gehry. Best of all, you can ride the Seattle monorail right to the museum from downtown.
Monorail and EMP
And next time you’re up in the Pacific Northwest, don’t forget to take a sailboat ride on Puget Sound.
Sailing on Puget Sound
Wish I could have been on board, but I was busy hanging out with my good friend Herb Weisbaum, who hosted me in Seattle and invited me on to the radio at KOMO-AM.
Herb at KOMO
And then, he worked his magic to arrange this interview with KOMO-TV:
In my next blog, I’ll show you the Seattle shop that is one of the coolest places to get authentic baseball memorabilia anywhere, including jerseys from the Sacramento Solons.
