Geat tour! Underground!

The guide through the underground was super talented! Funny! with non stop stories! We rushed through the bookstore/museum, or else I would have looked for a book with as many pics of the period as possible. The way they chose to rebuild Seattle after a devastating fire leaves me befuddled! Briefly..upon the rebuild, post fire, they demanded all buildings be made from brick. I get that, but they wanted to raise the city streets up 15 feet cause they built the city in a tide zone. I get that. But they began building before they sleuthed the soil from the steep hillside behind the city. So all buildings had to have 2 front doors, one on the first old street

level, and one on the 2nd level for later when the sleuthing (10yr process) raised the streets. I guess the process had to be done that way or there would be no business, downtown, economy etc.

Pics below show those erie passageways

that were still used after the sleuthing was complete. 

Photo below:

shows the Skylight built into new streets to shine light below into the underground, with the original glass still in place.