Friday, November 1, 2013

My Queen City Underground Tour

I had a very great time taking this tour! I thought that everything we saw was very interesting and fun to learn about. My favorite part of the tours was going in the tunnels and the tenement houses. It was fun walk around the city and see all the old German things.
The tenement houses were sort of e size of a one room apartment, that had two rooms for you and your ten closest family members. There is no toilet or bath/shower, so you would have to pay 5 cents to go to the bathroom, 8 cents to get someone's used bath water and 10 cents to get new bath water. So most people could only bath two times a year!
Going underground to the tunnels was a great experience. It was very dusty down there, and hard to breath, but it was warm. We got to see a big pile of garbage where people had thrown down their trash down there. Sometimes we could see ramps the old workers used to roll barrels of beer down. 
Charity told us about a couple at preformed in an old wear house, and the man would shot an apple off the woman's head. She secretly wore a steal band under her head band so she wouldn't get hurt. On a day of the show, she forgot to bring her steal band, but the couple thought the show had to go on. The woman tied on her hand band and the man raised the gun. The man missed for the first time in his life, and shot her square between the eyes. The crowd that was watching tried to hang the man from a pole on vine street. 
There was a church we got to see that was built on top of an old graveyard. Before building the church, they contacted the families and said to come claim the bodies. 70 bodies were never claimed, and 30 didn't have the money. 

4 comments:

  1. I thought you did a fantastic job at descrbing the whole experience and really giving us a pictur in our minds.

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  2. Pretty cool,It would be awesome to to play airsoft down there! xD

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  3. Great description! I really like the story, because it makes me feel like I was there!

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