Ever wonder what the world would be like without planes, computer software and online shopping? Thanks to progressive Seattle innovators and change-makers, the world is a much better place to live, work and play.
In the historical documentary “How Seattle Changed the World,” KOMO TV explores how the Northwest went from an afterthought to a magnet for innovation, drawing in passionate people, who made advancements in technology, aviation, commerce, music, entertainment and the arts.
Chapters:
00:00 – Intro
03:37 – Changing Transportation: Peterbilt, UPS, Boeing
11:00 – Seattle World’s Fair, Space Needle
13:22 – Microsoft’s Growth
16:20 – Amazon, Expedia, Zillow
17:38 – The Cell Phone explosion, McCaw Cellular
20:30 – Helping The World: Gates Foundation, Allen Institute
24:54 – Nordstrom, Costco, Starbucks
33:05 – Seattle arts and culture
35:15 – Pike Place Market
36:46 – Music: Ray Charles, Quincy Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Sir Mix A Lot
40:27 – Mount Saint Helen
41:28 – Eddie Bauer, REI
43:35 – Mount Ranier
44:22 – Pickle ball
46:19 – Science and Innovation
49:00 – Seattle Food: Beechers Cheese
51:50 – Why Seattle?
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For more on the lead story: https://komonews.com/features/dont-miss/seattle-history-industry-amazon-jeff-bezos-bill-melinda-gates-paul-allen-institute-brain-mapping-pike-place-market-cheese-chihuly-garden-glass-boeing-737-airplanes-jets-paccar-worlds-fair-space-needle-expedia-mccaw-cellular-starbucks-nordstrom-mt-rainier
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Seattle 1990s was business friendly. 2015 to present is not business friendly.
Seattle is dead
My family came from Norway and Iceland and built Seattle. My Mom's family were farmers and my Dad's were loggers fisherman and construction workers… when WW2 came and they took the innocent Japanese Americans and locked them into starvation camps in the US my family protected those people's property until they came back. They tended farms fed animals and beat up and chased off would be robbers. My great grandma thought culture and traditions were very important and she was afraid her close friends would lose those so she went studied everything Japanese and wrote a book about traditions and culture. When they finally let those Japanese back to.thier homes my whole family greeted them and helped them however we could and to this day our families are close. They celebrate Icelandic traditions with us and we celebrate Japanese traditions with them, most of thier kids can understand and speak Icelandic and our family can understand and speak Japanese.
So dont forget what was done to our innocent Japanese Americans they built Washington state too! Most of the west coast of Washington was built by Japanese and Scandanavians.
Wheres the part about dodging human feces on the sidewalks or getting stabbed by rando Hobos? There were over 300 murders in Seattle last year. This is nostalgic trash.
Nice place until all the yuppie trust fund babies ruined it.
Wow! it Summary seattle Comapanies in a nutshell!
Oh wow this was actually amazing. So glad I made the choice to move here 3 yrs now, yes right before the pandemic hit. I’m so glad to be apart of the beauty that takes place here in every shape, form and matter! God bless!
The IT industry has brought greater economic inequality to the Seattle area and has heavily burdened the middle class here. It is the condition of the middle class that really reflects an area’s well being. Our area is less economically diverse and more of a company town, which also lessens our independent and creative thinking.
postage stamps go in the upper right corner.
Old Seattle was cool. Today ANTIFA Seattle is a joke.
To bad it's a S hole now
Can you imagine if each State in US contribute this much of innovation for the world? Seattle and western WA is so beautiful, especially Spring and Summer are gorgeous, winter is still a little bit harsh to adapt.
LOL. Amazon ruined Seattle and has NOT made the world better. There's no real difference between this doc & Soviet delusion.
Proud to be a Seattle Ghost 👻. be continued loving Seattle’s rain & Coffee in next life too
Forgot Bruce Lee, Weyerhauser, sailing/yacht capital of US, international melting pot of races/nationalities, home to more infamous serial killers per capital, also sports influence – 1st Stanley cup American champions, gold medal husky mens crew at Berlin Hitler Olympics, longest unbeaten streak in college football history.
Last time I was in Seattle there was graffiti on the Gates foundation building, Seattle is no longer a place to see. It’s an environmental hazard with the garbage the homeless leave and drug use everywhere on the streets, in the alleys. Sad!
Just scanned through a few comments…. And as a born and raised Seattle / PNW person…. What a peice of Goebbels propaganda… The story a few years ago Seattle is Dying, is so much more true…. It used to be a cool place….. Not so much anymore…. Be careful how you vote…….. And lastly..to the California transplants, going back to the 1980's, this was at once a Great State and you have made it a pathetic place to live………
11:40 "little tiny jerkwater town." Not a fair description.
13:01 "secular Fair" What on earth does the fact that it was not a religious Fair have to do with anything?
This woman is annoying.
Nice, though it's a bit disingenuous to say we gifted the world with cellular phones. Japan was where the kind of 1G cellular the McCaws used stateside was created, back in 1979. I guess we popularized it on the world stage, but we didn't create it.
Edit: We also didn't invent disposable diapers. The guy who did went to UW, but he wasn't from Seattle and he was living and working in Ohio for Proctor & Gamble when he invented them.
Born and raised in Seattle. Now I refused to go there. It is rained.
My heart and spirit loves Washington state and west coast and USA for one day my body and ashes shall laying the dust of Earth only here and hopefully part of me at the sea coast and part of me up in the mountains Mt. St.Hellens or forests and Mt.Rainer. ✨🔥🌌🌊🗡🦅🇺🇲👑🦁🍷🦝🐍
New income tax wll ruin Seattle and innovation