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A second tour company, Beneath the Streets, was created in 2013 and explores different sections of Seattle's Underground network. [5] In addition to its standard tour, Beneath The Streets offers specialized experiences, including a Queer History Tour , highlighting the LGBTQ+ community's impact on the city's development, and a Red Light ...
As a Seattle historian, Speidel was something of a revisionist and the narration of the Underground Tour reflects that. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Doc Maynard , whom Speidel called "The Man Who Invented Seattle", was given short shrift in what Speidel characterized as the "Party Line" on the city's history, in part because the longer-lived Arthur Denny was so ...
Visitors can take the Seattle Underground Tour to see what remains of the old storefronts. Just before the fire, cable car service was instituted from Pioneer Square along Yesler Way to Lake Washington and the Leschi neighborhood. In 1891, German-born Frederick Trump, President Donald Trump's grandfather, owned the Dairy Restaurant on ...
The 2nd Street Tunnel is a widely filmed and photographed tunnel on 2nd Street under Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles Times described it as "the most recognizable city landmark most Americans have never heard of". [ 1 ]
Hill Street Tunnel referred to a series of rail and road tunnels in Los Angeles, California.Initially constructed to bypass the grades of the street's namesake Bunker Hill, one bore of the dual-bore tunnel served as the roadway of Hill Street while the other facilitated streetcars and interurban trains via a double track dual-gauge railway.
[3] Speidel, in his history of early Seattle Sons of the Profits, remarks that in her heyday "More city business was transacted at Lou's than at City Hall." [12] The building survives as the Washington Court Building, 221 South Washington Street [13] and houses, among other things, part of the Union Gospel Mission. [14]
The monument has a rich history dating back to the early 1920s. Responding to the traffic congestion that clogged the streets of downtown, the California Railroad Commission in 1922 issued Order 9928, which commissioned the Pacific Electric company to dig a subway for new trains to bypass downtown's busy streets and highways. [2]
Julie Speidel (born 1941 in Seattle [1]) is a sculptor from Seattle, Washington. She is the daughter of author Bill Speidel [ 2 ] and stepdaughter of oceanographer Robert S. Dietz . [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She is also part owner of the Seattle Underground tours company, Bill Speidel Enterprises.