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If you get a chance you might want to venture to the basement. Here is where a frightened cook ran upstairs to let the rest of the employees know something threw an ice scoop at him. He then refused to go back downstairs. So whether you would like to peek at its ghosts or just its history, you need to make a stop here.

OK HOTEL

212 Alaskan Way S

This place was once known as the OK or the Old Klondike Hotel. Locals called it the OK Hotel because it was an OK place to hang out. In the 1990s it was a bar and music club but closed in 2001 due to damages from the Nisqually earthquake. Before the earthquake, local bands played here, including Nirvana. Its heyday was during the prime of the gold rush when miners were heading to Seattle to strike it rich. At that time, this hotel offered twenty-five rooms and one bathroom on each floor. Most eight-by-nine-foot rooms would comfortably sleep one person, and, normally, four or five men would share the room, sleeping in shifts. It now is an affordable housing apartment building with an art gallery in the lobby.