The North Pacific Coast

Seattle is actually located in the North Pacific West. The city came about as a logging center than became "The largest company town"(Page 331). As it was home to the Boeing Aircraft company since world war one and provided bombers to the war effort in both world wars. It created the Jet and the whole city was heavily employed. During the 70's up until the 90's the economy for the jet plane was hit hard. Since then the city has done much better. Culturally the city is pretty famous for Microsoft but also for the "grunge" scene. Which was popularized by Nirvana and included other bands such as Mudhoney, Pearl Jam, The Melvins, and Screaming Trees to name a few.

Resource: Regional Landscapes of the United States and Canada Page(331), by Birdsall, Palka, Malinowski, and Price.

Nirvana from Seattle spawned the grunge culture that affected pop culture. Image by: Universal.