The statue was an ironic harbinger of Seattle's future (from Wiki):
Lewis E. Carpenter, an English teacher in Poprad originally from Issaquah, Washington, found the monumental statue lying in a scrapyard with a homeless man living inside the hollow statue ...
I got a call one time from a recruiter about an engineering job in Seattle. I told him I would have to pass. When he asked why, I told him that I would probably get arrested for urinating on that statue.
There’s a lot going on in that picture. You have Taco Del Mar, with ‘rippin tacos’, Doric (Masonic) Lodge, a Subaru AND a Saab.