Central Saloon
Brick-front Gold Rush-era saloon that rose from the ashes of a citywide fire and helped launch the grunge scene.
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This guide to the Central Saloon in Seattle starts underground, with an 1882 health report on tides that ran backward through the sewers of a mudflat neighborhood. It follows the Great Fire of 1889 that leveled twenty-five blocks, the odd rebuilding rule that buried the old streets under brick, and Thomas Watson, who opened a bar on this spot in 1892. Stand at the corner and you're standing over a full buried story of old Seattle, sealed beneath what tour guides call the Underground.
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