While there, I signed up for the Pendleton Underground Tour. Purchased a Pendleton hat for spouse, he did not have one surprisingly enough.
The picture below is of a Pendleton blanket woven in the Hudson Bay pattern. Does anyone know what the four black strips are for? First bar code! The blanket cost four pelts of what ever fur bearing critter was up for grabs, usually beaver.
Below is a picture from below of a side walk grate filled with glass. In the day,the underground part utilized as much solar technology as possible, the entire side walk around the block was glass, there were deep window wells that let in light as well. I was surprised that the hallways were as generous as they were.
Essentially how the underground in Pendleton came to be was that due to the rail head in town, lots of thievery, no law enforcement at all, the merchants hire Chinese to come in and dig the underground tunnels about four miles worth as well as excavate under an entire city block to create storage for the goods shipped in on the rail road. The underground over a period of 70 years or so served as a laundry and bath house run by Hop Sing (Honest!) Ice storage for the ice cream parlor, underground butcher, a speak easy, pool hall, gambling den, opium den, bowling alley and jail. Once back up on the street we toured the Cozy, a former bordello. Outstanding building that closed in 1953. The Madam moved around the corner and quietly continued serving customers until 1967.
After that spouse and I went out to the casino to the plateau room and he had well done very tender rib eye and I had a three tasting dishes and a dessert. My dishes consisted of a salad with candied hazelnuts (soggy) and pickled onions, the second dish was asparagus with a poached egg, third dish was pinwheel of Angus beef with balsamic.
If the chef had watched he would have choked me. I sliced the asparagus and added that to my salad as well as the pinwheel of beef and gently tossed it all together and then down my throat. Delish! Dessert was Fry bread with chocolate drizzle and berries. The fry bread was okay, I have tasted better but the beef was outstanding.
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Rocky and I went on the underground tour. We went to the museum too. Pendleton seems to be a fun place to kill a couple hours.
Yes it was fun! There was a family from New York there who said that they had done the underground in Seattle and they thought Pendleton was better. Maybe they were being polite tourists? We did have on ass hat who declaimed extensively about the bricks and mortor because he was in concrete. Uh hummmm wanna see the Chinese jail fella?
happy birthday sistah
HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! Hope you have a great one.
I've now done the underground Seattle thing twice. It amazes me that city's have underground subcities. I guess Houston has one due to the heat, that's why I didn't see any people on the streets while there in June.
First of all - Happy Birthday, Retro!
I have to google "Pendleton", I have no idea what you talk about, but it seems to have been a very nice excursion! Urban Exploration is a very interesting thing - you know the Urbex web ring? I have not visited it for some time but will do in the coming days or so. I remember "opacity" as a very interesting photo site.
Many happy returns!
I know nothing of web rings, must go explore the internets! Thanks Mago. R
Opacity still exists, seemingly better than ever.
The urbex-ring has now 109 sites: Each one should feature somewhere a kind of navigation of the webring like "next" or "last". It's basically a connection of websites that feature the same topic, here urban exploration. If the ring is broken, when you can not come from one site to the next you can come to the starting point and scroll down the list - I hope that still works.
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