I grew up in Puyallup, WA. It's a really weird suburb of Tacoma/Seattle that is a mix of hicks and suburbanites but it becoming more overran with the latter. It's congested, overcrowded and has way too much sprawl. It's a pretty nice little city, though. I can only take it in small doses because the SUV's and soccer moms make me want to kill myself.

A "pavilion" downtown at Pioneer Park:


A statue at Pioneer Park:


Western Washington Fair (aka the Puyallup Fair):


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The best part about the fair is that my junior high was a few blocks away from the fairgrounds so we could always smell the scones being baked. And we got a 'fair day' where we got a day off of school (so we could, in theory, go to the fair when it wasn't crowded).

A view of Mt. Rainer and the Puyallup River:


Meeker Mansion (Home of Ezra Meeker, who founded Puyallup):


My High School's logo


I moved to Tacoma, WA when I was 18 which is a little more interesting.



Tacoma is a port city off of the Puget Sound and was the primary port in Washington for a long time. It has the second deepest natural harbor in the world. Seattle is the primary one now but it's man-made.



Skywalk that goes over Interstate 5 from the Tacoma Art Museum to the Museum of Glass. The blue things are blown glass and there are sculptures all along the walk.



Stadium High School, where '10 Things I hate About You' was filmed:



Tacoma Narrows Bridge which goes across the Puget Sound into Gig Harbor. It's famous because it 'galloped' and collapsed during a wind storm. Hard to explain; just youtube 'galloping gerdy'.



Tacoma Dome:


Nick Lachey owns part of the Tacoma Rainiers (triple a baseball):



Bing Crosby, Ted Bundy, Lee Boyd Malvo and John A. Muhammad (the people who were convicted of all the sniper shooting in the Washington, D.C. area in 2002) are all from Tacoma. Not surprisingly, Tacoma has been awarded the 'Most Stressed out City Award' every year forever. There is also an air force base and army base right outside of the city.

washington's architecture is a lot newer than here in boston. when i go out to washington, especially seattle, i feel like i am in a futuristic city

Apparently nothing comes up if you youtube galloping gerdy.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=j-zczJXSxnw

Yeah, it's obviously been replaced since then. haha. It still looks like that and there's actually been a new bridge built next to it because Gig Harbor is a really ritzy BigWhiteTown and a lot of people commute from there to Tacoma so the traffic was insane.

I love the architecture of your part of the world Jymi

the brown house with the red shutters ... amazing
but I also reckon it would be spooky at night.

what the hell is going on with that single tower in the highschool o.0

otherwise the town looks pretty amusing, specially that traffic light *laughs*

I should do one of these for east york XD