Waterfall Garden UPS
Pocket garden built over a delivery firm's first office, centered on a roaring artificial waterfall.
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This guide to Waterfall Garden in Seattle's Pioneer Square traces the basement office where a broke young messenger named James Casey borrowed a hundred dollars in 1907 and, with partner Claude Ryan, launched the American Messenger Company. It follows the scrappy rules of that early delivery trade, where a phone on the wall rang with jobs and speed decided who kept the account, through the arrival of the company's first truck in 1913. The garden's own origin, decades later, ties the roar of falling water back to that same competitive hustle. Stand close to the wall and let the noise drown out the rest of the city.
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