Underworld
Oct. 2nd, 2006 07:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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ryuusama, Christie and I took in the Underworld Tour. We'd all been on the plain-vanilla Underground Tour at some point in the past, but we were all curious about the advertised extra sketchiness. So, what did we learn? Well, we already knew that early Seattle was more or less Deadwood: a resource-extraction- and prostition-based economy. Only wetter and smellier than the South Dakota version. And possibly with less gunplay. What distinguished the Underworld version of the tour consisted in a franker discussion of early Seattle's prominent pimps and madams--particularly the remarkable Lou Graham, opium dens, the total lack of sanitation, etc. Also, your ticket buys you a drink, afterward.
Conclusion: If you've never been on the Underground Tour before and you're not overly squeamish, the Underworld Tour is for you. Also, if you haven't been in awhile and you're as big a history geek as I am. :)
ryuusama, Christie and I took in the Underworld Tour. We'd all been on the plain-vanilla Underground Tour at some point in the past, but we were all curious about the advertised extra sketchiness. So, what did we learn? Well, we already knew that early Seattle was more or less Deadwood: a resource-extraction- and prostition-based economy. Only wetter and smellier than the South Dakota version. And possibly with less gunplay. What distinguished the Underworld version of the tour consisted in a franker discussion of early Seattle's prominent pimps and madams--particularly the remarkable Lou Graham, opium dens, the total lack of sanitation, etc. Also, your ticket buys you a drink, afterward. Conclusion: If you've never been on the Underground Tour before and you're not overly squeamish, the Underworld Tour is for you. Also, if you haven't been in awhile and you're as big a history geek as I am. :)
