They had a joke on Jon Stewart about the holy place of Kirkland, referring to Costco. Kirkland is a real place outside of Seattle. Costco was born here and is headquartered out of Issaquah now, another local town. The first one from the Costco version is on the south side of Seattle. They went bankrupt with a couple of other versions before this one stuck. A lot of mega corporations started here, same with serial killers.