Viva! Sea-Tac
By the time you read this, we'll be 40,000 feet in the air, having taken off from SeaTac at the crack of friggin' dawn. Which, of course, started us thinking about SeaTac...as dear Robyn Hitchcock sings: "They've got the best computers and coffee and smack...viva Seattle viva SeaTac!"
There are some ridiculously gorgeous arty photos on flickr under the "seatac" tag--check 'em out.
We've already told you how cool the historylink.org site is, and of course it does not fail on matters of SeaTac. In fact, historylink's SeaTac history is so comprehensive (i.e. lengthy and full of airplane data) that it makes our head spin. But we did love learning the following:
That SeaTac was originally a military airport.
That the original proposed location for SeaTac was Lake Sammamish, but (thankfully) someone figured out that taking off right near the Cascades might not be so safe.
That the first terminal was a Quonset hut called "The Pantry."
That infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper picked up four parachutes and $200k during his brief Thanksgiving Eve stopover at SeaTac.
Good times at SeaTac. The Port of Seattle's website isn't bad either--it even tells you how late the Cinnabon is open (after 5 pm, you're outta luck). Even the link to the cloogy TSA site on security-line wait times is helpful. Now we know we have to get up even earlier than the crack of friggin' dawn.
