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I've gone downtown maybe more than 5 times, but I even didn't know
the whole Seattle developement history and how complicated the underground
system is!!!! I can't imagine the streets we walk are totally
hollow, and the shop front we could see actually is the 2nd, 3rd,
or even 4th floor!(residents to raise the Pioneer Square area by as
much as 14 feet.)
The tour guide gave us a brief introduction about the underground Seattle
We can see the pedistrains walking above our heads through this "window"
Welcome to the underground world!
I walked on the past sidewalks, and it seemed like I walked in the
history. Even though the tour guide spoke extremely fast and I only could
catch some key points, it really impressed me to see the huge and
incredible construction.
===Related Information
Seattle Underground Tour Review
In its early days, downtown Seattle was a chaotic place, built on tidal
plain with poor drainage. After the Great Fire of 1889, city planners
wanted to raise the streets to solve the city's ever-growing sewage problems,
but the downtown building owners, unwilling to wait for the city to get to
work, rebuilt their buildings at the original level.
Years later, the city raised the streets, leaving sidewalks and entrances
as much as 36 feet below street level. For a time, pedestrians clambered
up and down between street level and building entrance on ladders, but
eventually the building entrances were raised, and the old sidewalks covered
over, creating the area called the Seattle Underground.
The Seattle Underground Tour begins in Doc Maynard's, a restored 1890s public
house, then the tour goes underground to visit the abandoned, sunken storefronts
of what was once ground-level Pioneer Square. Their well-informed guides recount
the role of the modern toilet in Seattle history and the origin of the term Skid
Road, taking you to some places where ghosts are said to hang out, all the while
telling funny stories and spouting Seattle history.
http://www.undergroundtour.com/
the whole Seattle developement history and how complicated the underground
system is!!!! I can't imagine the streets we walk are totally
hollow, and the shop front we could see actually is the 2nd, 3rd,
or even 4th floor!(residents to raise the Pioneer Square area by as
much as 14 feet.)
The tour guide gave us a brief introduction about the underground Seattle
We can see the pedistrains walking above our heads through this "window"
Welcome to the underground world!
I walked on the past sidewalks, and it seemed like I walked in the
history. Even though the tour guide spoke extremely fast and I only could
catch some key points, it really impressed me to see the huge and
incredible construction.
===Related Information
Seattle Underground Tour Review
In its early days, downtown Seattle was a chaotic place, built on tidal
plain with poor drainage. After the Great Fire of 1889, city planners
wanted to raise the streets to solve the city's ever-growing sewage problems,
but the downtown building owners, unwilling to wait for the city to get to
work, rebuilt their buildings at the original level.
Years later, the city raised the streets, leaving sidewalks and entrances
as much as 36 feet below street level. For a time, pedestrians clambered
up and down between street level and building entrance on ladders, but
eventually the building entrances were raised, and the old sidewalks covered
over, creating the area called the Seattle Underground.
The Seattle Underground Tour begins in Doc Maynard's, a restored 1890s public
house, then the tour goes underground to visit the abandoned, sunken storefronts
of what was once ground-level Pioneer Square. Their well-informed guides recount
the role of the modern toilet in Seattle history and the origin of the term Skid
Road, taking you to some places where ghosts are said to hang out, all the while
telling funny stories and spouting Seattle history.
http://www.undergroundtour.com/
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