Spanish Steps On 9 November 2009, a multimedia event was held on the Steps to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989; the event included the erection of replicas of parts of the wall. In the 2012 film "To Rome with Love", Hayley (Alison Pill) and Michelangelo Santoli (Flavio Parenti) met on the Spanish Steps. The Spanish Steps are featured in a scene in the 2015 film "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." The Steps are featured in numerous scenes in Alfred Bester's 1956 novel "The Stars My Destination". The Steps are featured in F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1933
Capital City (sternwheeler) Capital City (sternwheeler) Capital City was a sternwheel steamboat of the Puget Sound Mosquito Fleet. The vessel was originally named "Dalton". "Capital City" was built in 1898 at Port Blakely at the Hall Brothers shipyard. This vessel was originally owned by Canadian Pacific Ry. and was acquired by White Pass in 1901, but was not used under White Pass ownership. The vessel was sold to S. Willey Steamship & Navigation Co. and renamed "Capital City" in 1901. The vessel was resold to McDonald Steamship Co. in 1903, resold to Olympia-Tacoma Navigation Co. in 1904, and resold again to Dallas, Portland