"Where in North America is this?" Section VI

[Mark Sedenquist]

What is this?
Where is it?
Why is it like this now?


Photo: Don Casey

Hmmm, perhaps the boiler room at Alcatraz Prison state park?

Mark

[CalOldBlue]

Not Alcatraz.
Not in California.
Not a park property.

And to quote Paul Simon (the singer, not the politician): "One Man's Ceiling is Another Man's Floor".

Except that's not exactly a floor on the other side of what I'm standing under. Nor a roof.

[Mark Sedenquist]

There seems to be a similarity of creative clue-writing skills at work here....

OKay..."...Except that's not exactly a floor on the other side of what I'm standing under. Nor a roof...." Yegads....

[Mark Sedenquist]

So what's above your head is a street?

Perhaps the underground of either Seattle, New York or Chicago?

Mrk

[CalOldBlue]

You are looking at what used to be the ground floor of a building in Seattle's Pioneer Square area.

When originally built, they failed to adquately take into account things like high tide and rain runoff (something Seattle has a lot of).

After a while of slogging through muddy, sloppy (dare I say stinky) streets, the City Fathers decided to raise the street level.

They built walls between the streets and the sidewalks, and filled the street in with sundry debris... turning the sidewalks into moats around the buildings. At that point in the process building owners had to put ladders up to allow people to climb down to the building entrances. If you wanted to cross a street, you had to climb up a ladder, cross the street, then climb down a ladder on the other side.

Eventually they all decided to roof over the sidewalks, turn some second-story windows into doors, and make the second story of the buildings the new ground floor.

Even later, a bright lad (Bill Speidel) decided there was money to be made giving tours of this underground "paradise".

I'm standing under a sidewalk, what you are looking at are the original windows and doors of a building.

[Mark Sedenquist]

Excellent -- work on this puzzle.

mark

[CalOldBlue]

Who built this?
Where is it?
What movie did it appear in, in what role?


Photo: Don Casey

[Mark Sedenquist]

It was a movie with John Wayne -- but I'd have to look that up...

"The Searchers" maybe?

[CalOldBlue]

Captain Nathan Brittle's (John Wayne) office.

Harry and 'Mike' (his wife) Goulding, are credited with bringing Monument Valley to John Ford's attention; resulting initially in "Stagecoach".

Possibly an apochryphal tale, but as Goulding's Trading Post (actually, this is the original house, later root cellar) was the closest thing to 'civilization' in Monument Valley at the time, it became Ford's de facto headquarters during the filming of several of his movies.

The trading post is a two story adobe building on the grounds of Goulding's Lodge (which has changed hands more than once since the Gouldings sold it a few decades ago). The building is now a museum, movie stuff on the second floor, pioneer stuff on the ground floor.


Photo: Don Casey

[jayree]

Here is a new one for a challange.

1) What is this building?
2) Where is it located?
3) What is it's significance?


Picture by: Jerry Kendrick

Jerry