Pictures of the History lesson

Here is the city before the fire. Here is a plaque telling about the fire – how would you like to be forever known as the guy who set Seattle on fire.
Here is a plaque on the actions the city took. This is a common use of the underground – a storage area for trash.
Here is a picture of the rebuilt city before the streets were raised.
This is now the original “street level” which is now underground.
This is a bank before the streets were raised.
This is that same door way, underground.
This is a teller cage. We also walked through the bank vault that was used then. They claimed it is haunted, but we did not see anything. These are the floors that are sinking due to the fact that they used sawdust to originally fill the tide plains. In order to have light in the underground, the city put in some sky lights. This is one looking up from the underground.
Here it the same sky light from the side walk.
This was the door into Doc Maynard’s where the underground tour starts.
This was a cool building in the Pioneer Square district.
And for some reason I love the “Ride the Ducks” tours – it goes on both land and in the water – I did not go on it, but maybe someday.