Searching for Seattle's Octopi

As you've seen with our Octopus Dishes, Octopus tats, Heavens to Etsy and This Week in Film features today, the Seattlest staff has done our best to mine some local octopus content for our readers. But it's not enough! Not enough! What happens when you slap the keyword "octopus" into some Seattle sites' search engines?

Oooh! Via seattle.gov, looks as though there's a bronze octopus in the Neototems Children's Garden at Seattle Center: "The gardens surrounding the central fountain figure provide a place of discovery for children, including a series of "tidal pool" sculptures featuring small bronzes of a sea horse, an octopus, a flying pig, a hermit crab, and a family of three blowfish."

Gloria Bornstein, Neototem's Children's Garden, 2002. Photo by Erik Stuhaug.

Nothing over at SAM or MOHAI...

The UW Libraries Digital Collections has a veritable treasure trove of octopus content:

Octopus vulgaris Lam., Naples: A, at rest; B, in motion; f, funnel, the arrow showing the direction of the propelling current of water (1893). Image scanned by staff of the UW Fisheries-Oceanography Library. Source: UW Freshwater and Marine Image Bank

Alliance for Democracy flier - "Stay dry and stand out in Seattle at the "Protest of the century" : buy your "No WTO" poncho today." (1999). Source: UW Libraries, Special Collections Division - WTO Seattle collection

Naturally, Amazon has your back when it comes to octopus merchandise:

allrecipes.com has several octopus recipes, including a "Kids' Octopus Soup" (skewed hot dogs and chicken broth). Yum?

But what about our friendly rivals, The SunBreak? What do they have to offer? Some jazz about Canlis, bla bla bla.

Over and out, fellow octopus lovers.