Title: History of Seattle since 1940 - Wikipedia
Headings: History of Seattle since 1940
History of Seattle since 1940
History of Seattle, Washington since 1940
Contents
WWII and the Boeing era: 1945–1970
Counterculture
Political emergence of non-white minorities
Boeing bust: 1970–1985
Silicon Forest: 1985–present
N30
Music
Environmental sustainability
See also
Notes
References
External links

Content: From 1950 to 1960, the population increased 89,496 or 20% to 557,087. All of those people had to live somewhere, and the Fifties saw a huge housing boom. Population density all over Seattle exploded as people filled the boundaries of settlement in the city and began to move north. Most of the development was in single-family houses, since land was plentiful. Constructing the Alaskan Way Viaduct, 1952
At the same time, the freeways were being built to compensate for all this new growth. The community of Mercer Island, the " Eastside " (east of Lake Washington) communities of Bryn Mawr, Newport, Bellevue, Clyde Hill, Hunts Point, Medina, Juanita, and the northern suburbs of Kenmore, Lake Forest Park, and Lake Hills all came into being during the Boeing boom. Interstate 5 (I-5) cut the city in half on a north–south axis, while I-90 crossed east–west, connecting with Mercer Island via the floating Lacey V. Murrow Memorial Bridge. SR 520 skirted the north end of Montlake just south of the Montlake Cut, and paralleled I-90 with its own floating bridge. I-5 neatly cut off Downtown Seattle from Capitol Hill, First Hill, and even from part of the historic downtown, including the Tony Sorrento Hotel, which was left stranded on the "wrong" side of the freeway. I-90 was perhaps less disruptive (unless, of course, you were living in its path), since it is partly routed through a tunnel and skirts a more-or-less unbuildable edge of Beacon Hill, avoiding slicing the city into north and south halves.