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It seems that this location has had problems with business owners constantly running out—whether it is due to financial troubles or spirits running amuck. No one seems to be able to handle what this location has to offer. As of now it is home to a new club called Aura, and maybe by the time you read this book it could be a whole new venue. Whatever haunts this site, most don’t like the feeling they get when they are alone here. Could this be the work of a very unhappy entity not willing to share its environment with the living?

THE SMITH TOWER

506 Second Avenue

This forty-two-story building is the oldest skyscraper in Seattle. Started in 1912 and completed in 1914, it is named after its builder, Lyman Cornelius Smith of Smith & Corona typewriters. When completed, it held the record as being the tallest building west of the Mississippi River until 1931. But the building still held the record on the West Coast until the Space Needle surpassed it in 1962. It is also one of the last buildings on the West Coast to have hand-operated elevators.