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Seattle Attractions
Bill Speidel's Underground Tour

Doc Maynard's Public House
Pioneer Square
608 First Avenue
Seattle, WA
206-682-4646
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Underground Tour
If you have time during your visit
to Seattle and you like history, we highly recommend that you take
"Bill Speidel's Underground Tour"
in historic Pioneer Square — Seattle's oldest neighborhood and home to the original "Skid Row."

Historic Guided Walking Tour
Beneath Seattle's Sidewalks
The popular, leisurely (and entertaining) 90-minute "Underground Tour" takes you beneath Seattle’s sidewalks and streets — get an idea of what
"old" Seattle looked like prior to
the Great Fire of June 6, 1889
that destroyed most of the city.

The tour begins with a brief overview of Seattle's history inside Doc Maynard's Public House — a restored 1890s saloon — before being led outside to begin the "underground" walking tour.

After the fire, Pioneer Square was rebuilt and the ground level was raised to fix the city's flooding and sanitation problems — the Underground Tour features one of the first known flushing toilets (photo below), also known as the "crapper" invented by Englishman Thomas Crapper*.

Click here to see photos of the
"Original Thomas Crapper Toilet"
— currently on display in Rogues Gallery museum

*Some believe that the great-great-grandson of Frederick Humpherson (chief apprentice to Thomas Crapper in 1871) actually discovered the toilet, but Thomas Crapper took the credit.

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