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How Seattleites Navigated Downtown Before GPS

True tales from the most interesting place on earth.

How Seattleites Navigated Downtown Before GPS

Season 1 Episode 19 | 3m 32s | CC

At some point or another, every Seattleite hears this phrase: Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest. But what the heck does that mean? Well, it’s a mnemonic device, the kind of thing someone makes up to remember something. In this case, it’s the sequence of east-west streets that make up the city’s downtown core, from Pioneer Square to Belltown.

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