"Bob Kuykendall" wrote in message
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| Earlier, "C J Campbell" wrote:
|
| ...when the police tried to close
| down the hill, the crowd started
| to riot...
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| Readers of _Sons of the Profit_ will recognize that as a longstanding
| Seattle tradition.

Bill Speidel, founder of Seattle Underground tours and author of "Sons of
the Profits" and several other books about the area, would no doubt have an
especially sharp quill for the modern Seattleite.

I liked the Underground Tour much better back in the old days when you had
to carry your own flashlight and the guides were less politically correct.
Crawling around through filthy, dark tunnels with rats scurrying everywhere
(especially at night) somehow seemed to more of a reflection of what Seattle
history was all about. Speidel often conducted the tours himself, hawking
his autographed books at the end.