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Published by:: PIHA - Paranormal Investigations of Historic America
Published:: 7/8/2010
Specs:: Standard / 8.25" x 10.75"
12 pages Saddle-stitched

Category:: Travel & Vacations
Tags:: ghost, grey team, haunted, history, museum, Olympic Peninsula, paranormal, piha, port angeles, port gamble, port townsend, wa, washington

The bawdy Olympic Club opened in 1908 as a "gentleman's resort," and had a barber shop, shoeshine stand, cafe, bar, card room, pool room and cigar counter.

The elegant trappings were meant to coax loggers and miners to leave their week's salary behind. And they often did. Next door, what began as the Oxford Hotel and New Tourist Bar was built in 1913 for railroad travelers.

The hotel became especially noteworthy when in 1921 the train-robbing bandit Roy Gardner was captured in the hotel after escaping from federal guards days earlier and riding to Centralia on the cowcatcher of a slow-moving train. Jack Sciutto, the Olympic Club's original proprietor was crowned "King of Bootleggers".

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