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Visitors in Seattle should see: The Pike Place Market; Zoological Gardens; The Smith Tower, 42 stories, Day and Night View; U.S. Ship Canal, second to Panama; Mt. Rainier; Snoqualmie Falls, 100 feet higher than the Niagara; Big Trees in Schmitz Park; Sea Bathing at Alki Beach; View of harbor from Colman Dock Rotunda; Battleships and great docks; U.S. Navy Yard at Bremerton, 1 hour ride; Municipal Frozen Fish Aquarium in Spokane St. Dock; Tropical Conservatories in Volunteer Park; State Museum on University Campus; 13 Totem Poles and 3 mounds of shells at "Totem Place", cor. California Ave. and Palm. The Seattle Chamber of Commerce and Alaska Bureau will give you free literature, maps and information about sight seeing. Don't fail to visit the World Famous Ye Olde Curiosity Shop and see the carvings on grains of rice; the Lord's Prayer on a pin head; Fleas in dresses; A duckbill Plattypus, a devil fish, wolf fish, musk ox skull, camel bells, old ship lanterns, Narwhal tusk, Aztec pottery, ships in bottles, old guns, Indian masks and real hand-carved Indian Totem Poles, one to forty feet tall. Big variety of antique brass and bronze and a wonderful display of Ivory carvings. Odd rings and beads; rare novelties, Indian baskets, bracelets and rings, daggers and thousands of other curiosities from every land and sea. Everybody welcome to Ye Olde Curiosity Shop. Est'd 1899 by J.E. Standley - Beats the Dickens. At foot of Marion Street, the ground floor entrance to Colman Dock. Look for Whale Jaw Bones |
