The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55170   Message #858235
Posted By: Haruo
03-Jan-03 - 11:53 PM
Thread Name: BS: A proper cup of tea: nothing like it!
Subject: RE: BS: A proper cup of tea: nothing like it!
No, SRS, and I hate to think what it must smell like down beneath the Moon! Yecccchhh! The Underground Tour begins and ends in Pioneer Square, currently I think at Doc Maynard's (named after the medico supposedly responsible for some of downtown Seattle's oddly catawampus street layout) but the Blue Moon is near the University District (in fact, its location was dictated by the old law that forbade the sale of spirituous liquors [including beer] within a mile of the UW campus; the Red Robin to the south (just across the bridge; now the home store of a "gourmet burger" chain), the Century [the politicized drunks' place] (now, I guess, gone) to the north, and the Duchess (defunct? dunno, I'll check; Nope, still there apparently) to the east were all located where they were, in the period immediately following the end of Prohibition, in order to be as close as possible to all those pocketbooks on Greek Row. Few of which, I would venture, would drop any of their money on tea.

Haruo