Seattle's Abandoned Underground City

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In the early years of Seattle’s history, the flooding streets of the city led the community to abandon its ground-floor level and build a new street level above. Join me on this small journey to explore this bizarre underground cityscape.

#seattle #history #architecture

REFERENCES:
“Doc Maynard, The Man Who Invented Seattle” by Bill Speidel

Bill Speidel’s Underground Tour. Seattle, Washington, USA

MUSIC:
“Affirmation” by Scott Buckley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyfX0QR71-Y

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22 thoughts on “Seattle's Abandoned Underground City”

  7. What a fascinating insight to the secrets and history of such a wonderful city! I have heard about these underground tours, but have not yet joined one during my Seattle visits. It's definitely on my bucket list now for future visits. Thanks Alex, very inspiring and so well narrated, as always with your videos 🙂

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  14. This is so fascinating. This is about as close as we can get to time travel. Even when you have old building still in use they have been updated over the years, many times more than once, so you lose the aspect of what they were really like in the time they were built. This essentially takes you back in time without our infuences.

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  17. Did not love this video, this is Academia's attempt to de-explain the "Mud Flood".
    There are clearly 18 foot mountains of mud all over in between building THAT WAS NOT pulled or drudged from the sound. People were becoming panicked over the obvious proofs that there must of have been another civilization here before the Civil War. This video is meant to calm peoples anxieties.

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  18. I did the "Beneath the Streets" tour in December, starting from an entrance in Cherry St. Seems to have smaller groups than some of the other tours, so therefore a personalised chat and tour from the very knowledgeable guide, who talks about architectural styles (fascinating), Seattle's First Nations and some broader history. Really a great experience.
    They basically built a huge "waffle", comprising solid bluestone walls around each city block, 12-18ft ft high. Then the streets all had to be infilled to raise them to the new level. They also levelled six adjacent mountains using high-pressure water to wash the soil down and raise the mudflats – a mining technique called "sluicing". There are some amusing historical photos of houses perched right on top of a hill that has been taken away around them – owned by people who refused to sell up for the project.

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