My parents left before Erik & Kim, who had a couple days before they headed to Portland for a reunion of Erik's Berlin high school friends. So the five of us headed to Pioneer Square for the Underground Tour. Seattle used to be even hillier. After a fire in 1889 leveled the city, they had the great idea to solve sewer, mud, & incline problems in one swoop by moving everything one story up. Buildings that had already built their first floors now had basements, which is what you tour — the original street level.
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