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Twisted Tour Guide to Seattle and Puget Sound: Shocking Deaths, Scandals and Vice
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by Marques Vickers, Marques Vickers (Photographer)
Marques Vickers
Twisted Tour Guide to Seattle and Puget Sound: Shocking Deaths, Scandals and Vice
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by Marques Vickers, Marques Vickers (Photographer)
Marques Vickers
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Overview
Avoid The Tourist Herds.
What could be more uninspiring than seeing the identical attractions that everyone else has for decades?
This Twisted Tour Guide escorts you to the places locals don't want to talk about anymore...the same places people once couldn't stop talking about. Long after the screaming headlines and sensationalism has subsided, these bizarre, infamous and obscure historical sites remain hidden awaiting rediscovery.
Each visitation site in this guide is accompanied by a story. Many of the narratives defy believability, yet they are true. The profiled cast of characters feature saints and sinners (with emphasis towards the latter).
Notorious crimes, murders, accidental deaths, suicides, kidnappings, vice and scandal are captivating human interest tales. Paranormal activity in the aftermath is common.
The photography from each profile showcases the precise location where each event occurred. The scenes can seem ordinary, weird and/or sometimes very revealing towards clarifying the background behind events.
If you're seeking an alternative to conventional tourism, this Twisted Tourist Guide is ideal. Each directory accommodates the restless traveler and even resident looking for something unique and different. You will never imagine or scrutinize Seattle or the Puget Sound area through rose tinted glasses again. The contents include:
SEATTLE:
Kurt Cobain's suicide, Nixon's John Ehrlichman's Seattle legal years Seattle's ethically-flawed founders and historic brothels, Crime boss Frank Colacurcio, Strippergate, Felker House, Madame Lou Graham, Seattle's homeless Jungle killings, Central Card Room, Merchants Café, People's Theatre, Self-defense killing of Seattle's Police Chief, Triangle Hotel, Starvation Hill, Pioneer Square Hotel, Mahoney murder scandal, Sylvia Gaines incest murder, American teamster President Dave Beck Jr's embezzlements, Recording artist Little Willie Johns, manslaughter, Lifeline Club infamous bingo raid, West Seattle Bridge ship collision and resulting skipper's dismemberment, Donut House exploitation operation, Wah Mee Gambling Club massacre, The Monastery disco, Goldmark family murder, Judge Gary Little's suicide, Pang Frozen Food fire, Assassination of Judge Tom Wales, Wasting away death of Alice in Chains's Layne Staley, Mia Zapata's killing, The Gits Mia Zapata's killing, Capital Hill massacre, Mike Webb's disappearance, Beating death of Tuba Man, Café Racer shooting, Dinh Bowman's murder experiment, Seattle Pacific University shooting and Gay hate crime murders...Plus
BELLEVUE
Prostitution employing contemporary technology applications, Mars Hills Congregational Church collapse, Bellevue's creepy first mayor and the Rafay and Wilson family murders...Plus
TACOMA
Serial Killer Ted Bundy, The Enterprise crime syndicate, Little girl's ghost in the upper restaurant windows, Unsolved kidnappings of Ann Marie Burr and Charlie Mattson, Serial killer Jake Bird's fatal curse, DNA profiles track down two child killers forty years later, The missing prostitutes along Puyallup Avenue, Coffee shop killing of four police officers, Asian gangland slaying, DC Sniper's associate killing...Plus
OUTLYING AREAS
Green River Serial Killer, Elementary School teacher pregnancy scandal, A survivalist murders his family, Police shooting death motivated by impatience, Everett dockside massacre...and even more scandal and vice await...
What could be more uninspiring than seeing the identical attractions that everyone else has for decades?
This Twisted Tour Guide escorts you to the places locals don't want to talk about anymore...the same places people once couldn't stop talking about. Long after the screaming headlines and sensationalism has subsided, these bizarre, infamous and obscure historical sites remain hidden awaiting rediscovery.
Each visitation site in this guide is accompanied by a story. Many of the narratives defy believability, yet they are true. The profiled cast of characters feature saints and sinners (with emphasis towards the latter).
Notorious crimes, murders, accidental deaths, suicides, kidnappings, vice and scandal are captivating human interest tales. Paranormal activity in the aftermath is common.
The photography from each profile showcases the precise location where each event occurred. The scenes can seem ordinary, weird and/or sometimes very revealing towards clarifying the background behind events.
If you're seeking an alternative to conventional tourism, this Twisted Tourist Guide is ideal. Each directory accommodates the restless traveler and even resident looking for something unique and different. You will never imagine or scrutinize Seattle or the Puget Sound area through rose tinted glasses again. The contents include:
SEATTLE:
Kurt Cobain's suicide, Nixon's John Ehrlichman's Seattle legal years Seattle's ethically-flawed founders and historic brothels, Crime boss Frank Colacurcio, Strippergate, Felker House, Madame Lou Graham, Seattle's homeless Jungle killings, Central Card Room, Merchants Café, People's Theatre, Self-defense killing of Seattle's Police Chief, Triangle Hotel, Starvation Hill, Pioneer Square Hotel, Mahoney murder scandal, Sylvia Gaines incest murder, American teamster President Dave Beck Jr's embezzlements, Recording artist Little Willie Johns, manslaughter, Lifeline Club infamous bingo raid, West Seattle Bridge ship collision and resulting skipper's dismemberment, Donut House exploitation operation, Wah Mee Gambling Club massacre, The Monastery disco, Goldmark family murder, Judge Gary Little's suicide, Pang Frozen Food fire, Assassination of Judge Tom Wales, Wasting away death of Alice in Chains's Layne Staley, Mia Zapata's killing, The Gits Mia Zapata's killing, Capital Hill massacre, Mike Webb's disappearance, Beating death of Tuba Man, Café Racer shooting, Dinh Bowman's murder experiment, Seattle Pacific University shooting and Gay hate crime murders...Plus
BELLEVUE
Prostitution employing contemporary technology applications, Mars Hills Congregational Church collapse, Bellevue's creepy first mayor and the Rafay and Wilson family murders...Plus
TACOMA
Serial Killer Ted Bundy, The Enterprise crime syndicate, Little girl's ghost in the upper restaurant windows, Unsolved kidnappings of Ann Marie Burr and Charlie Mattson, Serial killer Jake Bird's fatal curse, DNA profiles track down two child killers forty years later, The missing prostitutes along Puyallup Avenue, Coffee shop killing of four police officers, Asian gangland slaying, DC Sniper's associate killing...Plus
OUTLYING AREAS
Green River Serial Killer, Elementary School teacher pregnancy scandal, A survivalist murders his family, Police shooting death motivated by impatience, Everett dockside massacre...and even more scandal and vice await...
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781078724098 |
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| Publisher: | Barnes & Noble Press |
| Publication date: | 09/21/2019 |
| Pages: | 392 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.87(d) |
About the Author
Author, photographer and visual artist Marques Vickers was born in 1957 in Vallejo, California. He graduated from Azusa Pacific University in Los Angeles and became the Public Relations and Executive Director for the Burbank, California Chamber of Commerce between 1979-84.
Professionally, he has operated travel, apparel, wine, rare book and publishing businesses. His paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in art galleries, private collections and museums in the United States and Europe. He has previously lived in the Burgundy and Languedoc regions of France and currently lives in the South Puget Sound region of Western Washington.
He has written and published over one hundred books spanning a diverse variety of subjects including true crime, international travel, social satire, wine production, architecture, history, fiction, auctions, fine art, poetry and photojournalism.
He has two daughters, Charline and Caroline who reside in Europe.
Professionally, he has operated travel, apparel, wine, rare book and publishing businesses. His paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in art galleries, private collections and museums in the United States and Europe. He has previously lived in the Burgundy and Languedoc regions of France and currently lives in the South Puget Sound region of Western Washington.
He has written and published over one hundred books spanning a diverse variety of subjects including true crime, international travel, social satire, wine production, architecture, history, fiction, auctions, fine art, poetry and photojournalism.
He has two daughters, Charline and Caroline who reside in Europe.
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