REAL ESTATE ON THE SOUND: The Price to Own Shoreline

There are few places in the world like Puget Sound. It's a kind of quirky drainage ditch left over after 3,000 feet of ice blanketed the area some 10,000 years ago. Flanked on the east side with bustling industry, railroad tracks and sprawling suburbia, the waters of Puget Sound have moderately kept the advancing populations at bay like a giant moat. To the West, are islands and shorelines still retaining a resemblance of their natural state. In the sunset shadow of the rugged and desolate Olympic Mountains, the western side of Puget Sound is a complete dichotomy of it's eastern shores. Never the less, real estate prices all over the Puget Sound region have soared since the late 1970's.

FACE OF SEATTLE:
Is it Time for Her to Lose the Braces?

The Seattle Alaska Street Viaduct is a hot issue these days. Outliving its designed life and badly in need of a severe overhaul, the structure is a testament to Seattle's utilitarian and industrial past. Many say that it is out of place in the new high-tech Seattle vying for world tourism attention. During the days when the viaduct was originally conceived, Seattle was of little importance as a tourism town. Sure, it was the Gateway to Alaska, and the orient. But until the World's Fair in 1962, none had hardly considered destination travel to Seattle in comparison to other cities around the globe.

Welcome to the new Puget Sound Magazine web site. We are frantically working to bring you enticing content that will make your mouth water, your fingers tremble, and your heart race. Well, at least we are hoping to get you off the crowded freeways and out onto the peaceful and enchanted waterways you probably glimpse at from your car window every now and then. -And probably wonder every once in a while, "what's out there?"