Iconic Space Needle and Seattle Logos

Having lived in New York, I got a sense for what buildings or structures people identify with the City: Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty, the Chrysler Building...

New York is too big, though, to really be defined by any one of those buildings in the same way as, say, Seattle is defined by the Space Needle.

Here it is from our hotel in November of 2011:

And here it is as a building's adornment in Seattle proper:

Teams in any cities don't take an image this iconic and made it theirs like the Seattle teams. Here's the original Sounders soccer team from the old NASL:

And the Sonics, of which will ave returned next year:

The Mariners:

And the current Sounders team:

The Space Needle, baby. It's cool and romantic and more isolated than Frasier's balcony matte painting would suggest.