The Underground Tour
You know how your relatives come to town and you get roped into doing lame things with them? The Underground Tour solves this problem by creating a tour featuring the parts of Seattle that everyone, literally, cannot see because they are underground. The tour guides take you through dark and damp (and allergy-inducing) rooms. The rooms aren’t much, but the tour guides infuse them with stories of prostitution, illegal activity, bank robberies, sewage, and death. How’s that for fun with the family? This anecdote alone was worth the price of admission: In the 1900s, Seattleites used an elevated log as a sewage pipe, which would not only drip on people, but also wash their filth back into the city during high tide. Instead of fixing the whole walking-in-your-own-filth problem, high tide became front page news. So impress your friends and visitors, and go on the underground tour.
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