Bremerton, Washington

Everything Bremerton is known for

3 songs mention this city 2 artists from here

Music in Bremerton

Songs About Bremerton

Bremelo
Sir Mix-a-Lot
54%
"On the way to Bremerton were the fat is at"
Bremelo
Sir-Mix-A-Lot
50%
"On the way to Bremerton were the fat is at"
Still Got Love
Blue Scholars
4%
"From B-town to downtown... we came up out the shadows of this military town"

Rivers & Roads in Song near Bremerton

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Bremerton.

Musical Heritage

Cobain's Bench, Viretta Park RoadyGoat

1994

Viretta Park, a small 1.8-acre green slope at 151 Lake Washington Boulevard East in Seattle's Denny-Blaine neighborhood, has become the unofficial memorial to Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. The park sits right next to the home where Cobain died in April 1994. There is no official monument; instead, fans adopted the park's plain wooden benches, covering them with carved messages, lyrics, and tributes. The original benches were sold at auction in 2014, but their replacements quickly drew the same outpouring of graffiti. Fans gather here every April 5th, the anniversary of his death, and on his February 20th birthday, to leave flowers, candles, and notes. The house itself is private and not open to visitors, but the bench has become a quiet pilgrimage spot for grunge fans from around the world.

16.7 mi away

History of Bremerton

The Gum Wall, Pike Place RoadyGoat

1993

In Post Alley beneath Pike Place Market, near 1428 Post Alley in Seattle, brick walls are caked in decades of chewed gum, a wad-by-wad mosaic that climbs well overhead. The tradition started in the early 1990s (sources put it around 1991 to 1993) when patrons waiting in line for shows at the Market Theater, home to the improv troupe Unexpected Productions, began sticking their gum to the wall, often topped with a coin. Staff scraped it off twice at first, then gave up and let it become an attraction. It's been steam-cleaned only rarely; a major 2015 cleaning hauled away over a ton of gum, and the wall was fully re-coated within months. It regularly lands on lists of the 'germiest' tourist sites on Earth, which somehow only makes people add more.

13.9 mi away

Rachel's Apartment RoadyGoat

The Harbor Steps Apartments at 1200 Western Avenue in downtown Seattle stood in for Rachel Keller's home in The Ring (2002), the setting of the film's famous climax where the girl crawls out of the television set. The haunted videotape is fiction; this is a real upscale apartment complex above the waterfront.

14.0 mi away

Canlis RoadyGoat

Peter Canlis opened his restaurant overlooking Lake Union in Seattle in 1950 in a stunning mid-century modern building designed by Roland Terry. The Canlis salad — a romaine salad with codfish, bacon, and a signature dressing — predates the restaurant's reputation for innovation. Now run by the third generation of the Canlis family, it consistently ranks among the best restaurants in America.

14.3 mi away

The Space Needle: Seattle's Atomic Age Icon

1962

Built in 13 months for the 1962 World's Fair, the Space Needle embodied America's Space Age optimism and became the defining symbol of Seattle.

13.7 mi away

Pike Place Market: The Soul of Seattle

1907

Pike Place Market opened in 1907 to let consumers buy directly from farmers, survived a near-demolition in the 1960s, and became Seattle's most iconic landmark — home to the original Starbucks.

13.9 mi away

The Great Seattle Fire: Disaster That Built a City

1889

On June 6, 1889, a glue pot fire in a cabinet shop destroyed 25 city blocks, but Seattle rebuilt in brick and stone, raising the streets by two stories and creating the underground passageways that exist today.

14.0 mi away

Boeing's Red Barn: Where Aviation Giants Are Born

1916

William Boeing built his first aircraft factory in a converted boathouse on the Duwamish River in 1916, founding what would become the world's largest aerospace company.

15.5 mi away

Museum of Flight: Where Aviation History Lives

1965

The Museum of Flight at Boeing Field is the largest private air and space museum in the world, housing over 175 aircraft including the first Air Force One jet and the Concorde.

16.0 mi away

Things to Do in Bremerton

Everything Near Bremerton

14 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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