Growth in Seattle...
 
Everyone is mentioning how fast Seattle is growing, but actually, its not growing TERRIBLY fast... We're still behind the high mark, hit in the '60's.  

It makes you wonder... if the size of Seattle was so large, why didn't they start building the roads for it THEN?!?

Here's the population for Seattle, counted on each census since 1870
  
     1870       1,107
     1880       3,533
     1890      42,800
     1900      80,671
     1910     237,194
     1920     315,312
     1930     365,583
     1940     368,302
     1950     467,591
     1960     557,087
     1970     530,831
     1980     493,846
     1990     516,259
     1995     532,900