Back 1889, Seattle - built at the base of some very steep mountains, suffered a fire that destroyed the entire business district. Instead of clearing the rubble away, the city filled it all in and rebuilt a new city atop the ruins - meandering beneathe the streets today.
looking up thru the sidewalk from the street below
Somebody's sign from long ago
Tesla generator
Olde business district beneathe the new
When I toured the Seattle Underground, the tour guide mentioned Madame Lou... Madame Lou who?
Madame Lou Graham - originally Dorothea Georgine Emile Ohben, whose family was from Germany. She pitched the prospect of pricey prostitution to savvy Seattle city officials - featuring sophisticated women who could discuss any topic with their well heeled clientele. Madame Lou's prostitutes - were practically prepared from pre-pubescence to please the pervs who paid the pimps; and for peforming some blackmail and rituals too.
At the end of the tour, I asked our guide why he failed to mention
Mr Drumpf. He and the other guides all looked at each other, as though I shouldn't have asked that question; then pointed out that everyone who hustled in Seattle at that time did so only with
Madame Lou's blessing.
Madame Lou with some of the girls - and
"her dirty secret" with
his back to the wall
monorail
Seattle nightscape
Seattle Space Needle sproutin' from the fountain
Seattle skyline