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In 1964, Speidel received and printed a letter from a reader asking about the underground areas of Pioneer Square. He replied via the paper that he did not know much about it, but that he would research it and get back to her. Once he did the research, he printed a response telling her to meet him
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The reader did show up, along with 500 other people. Speidel quickly took up a collection of $ 1 from each of the visitors and proceeded on the first tour of the
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weekend 1965, the Underground Tour has given several tours a day every day except holidays and is one of the city's best known tourist attractions.
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Seattle underground; a pictorial story with historical footnotes and interesting anecdotes about the forgotten city beneath modern Seattle
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at 3 p.m. the next Saturday in Pioneer Square, and he would take her on a tour of the underground and what he had found.
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for beginning the process of, as he puts it in the latter book, "writing our rascals back into our history".
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Speidel, William (1957). Be My Guest! In The Pacific Northwest. Vashon Island, WA: Nettle Creek.
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Speidel is also credited with being one of the leaders of the movement to preserve and restore
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Sons of the Profits or There's No Business Like Grow Business The Seattle Story 1851–1901
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The Wet Side Of The Mountains (or Prowling Western Washington)
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and the narration of the Underground Tour reflects that.
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There, and again in 199:. Vashon Island, WA: Nettle Creek. 197:You Still Can't Eat Mount Rainier! 14: 593: 406:. Bill Speidel's Underground Tour 26: 532: 381:Walt Crowley (March 12, 2001). 331:Carole Beers (August 8, 1994). 168: 519: 491: 451: 434: 417: 396: 359:Don Tewkesbury (May 5, 1988). 324: 1: 540:Through the Eye of the Needle 527:Through the Eye of the Needle 501:Through the Eye of the Needle 478:Through the Eye of the Needle 333:"Shirley R. Speidel obituary" 317: 299:Through the Eye of the Needle 238:. Seattle, WA: Nettle Creek. 177:You Can't Eat Mount Rainier! 7: 10: 598: 480:, p. 133, Speidel credits 285:Luck Location & Lunacy 498:Speidel, William (1989). 458:Speidel, William (1978). 296:Speidel, William (1989). 283:Speidel, William (1984). 262:Speidel, William (1978). 255:It Was a Hell of a Blast! 253:Speidel, William (1975). 234:Speidel, William (1974). 213:Speidel, William (1967). 204:Speidel, William (1967). 195:Speidel, William (1961). 175:Speidel, William (1955). 82: 74: 63: 49: 41: 25: 18: 504:. USA: Nettle Creek. 464:. USA: Nettle Creek. 302:. USA: Nettle Creek. 268:. USA: Nettle Creek. 219:. USA: Nettle Creek. 577:Writers from Seattle 446:Vancouver Free Press 404:"Who's Bill Speidel" 78:Shirley Ross Speidel 572:American columnists 423:Melanie Mcfarland, 136:Seattle Underground 106:Sons of the Profits 57:Seattle, Washington 484:and his 1951 book 291:. 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Index


Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park
Seattle, Washington
columnist
Julie Speidel
The Seattle Times
Seattle
Washington
Pioneer Square
Seattle Underground
Memorial Day
revisionist
Doc Maynard
Arthur Denny
Jacob Furth
Lou Graham
LCCN
55041684
Sons of the Profits or There's No Business Like Grow Business The Seattle Story 1851–1901
ISBN
0-914890-06-9
ISBN
0-914890-01-8
Doc Maynard, The Man Who Invented Seattle
ISBN
0-914890-02-6
Seattle City Light
Through the Eye of the Needle
ISBN
0-914890-04-2

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