The Seattle Underground Tour

On our first full day of our Seattle honeymoon we went on the Seattle Underground Tour in the morning.  That afternoon, we went to the Museum of Flight.  The pages I'm sharing today are a few of my favorites from the underground tour.

 The Seattle Underground Tour is just as it sounds.  The tour explains that originally Seattle was on a huge incline and sewage would literally run down the slope.  When a fire destroyed a lot of the city, they build the roads up so that the incline was not so steep.  I must say, this southern girl who is used to flat ground thought the incline was still VERY steep.  They built the streets up around the buildings that were still standing.  So a lot of the stores, lounges, etc, were below street level.

The first page shows a picture of a building pre-fire.  The streets after the fire were built up to the second level of the building.  At one point, we saw the original plumbing for a bathroom and it was about 5 feet up from where we were standing.  This page I kept simple; just putting a frame around the pictures and using a simple journaling strip.

The underground stores used "skylights" to let natural light shine into the store.  These skylights are literally built into the sidewalk.  This page shows the same skylight from the street level and the underground.  The purple glass shows up very pretty from the street level.  However, the skylights have not been maintained in the underground levels that are only used for the tour.  So they weren't so pretty from underground.

This page I used the same ribbon with a brass embellishment to create a layering effect with the pictures and the journaling strip.

At the end of the tour, there is an artifact "museum" and a gift shop.  The pictures and clipping of Seattle before and after the fire were shocking.  To see pictures of a major city burned to char is just crazy.  I couldn't believe a whole city could be destroyed by a fire that started in one building.

This page shows a SMALL collection of the pictures they had displayed of the fire.  I sized it to the width of the page so the picture would be the focus of the page.  I used individual letters to spell "Seattle fire."  To add interest, I put a locket and key hanging from the S and the e of Seattle.  I "erased" a piece of the loops so that the hanging effect would be more realistic.

On our walk back "home" from the tour, we saw a sculpture that caught our eye.  In fact, it may have been right outside of where we were staying....but I don't remember.  Anyway, I thought it would be funny if we had a picture of Theo "pushing" it across the ground.

I placed the picture on a diagonal and bordered it with a scalloped ribbon.  Under the picture I placed a journaling strip and a ribbon flower with a button center.

After we got back and ate lunch, we went to the Museum of Flight.  I will be working on the pages from the Museum of Flight this weekend.  Be watching for those pages coming soon.