When WWII began the brothel was shut down because rooms were in dire need
as rooms were scarce. The building was turned into a sort of makeshift hotel for
soldiers and assorted seamen who needed a place to crash after their
booze and sex benders before heading back out to war again.
Once the war ended, the building fell into a sad state of disrepair.
With its boards sagging and paint peeling, the new owner of the building
christened it The Sound View Apartments.
Because of its already rather
seedy reputation as well as its dangerous location (the bowels of Seattle),
it became a full-fledged flophouse. What happened during that time no one really knows
as there are no records anywhere. We looked. It was as if the building had never even existed.
During the late 1970s, the building had transitioned from flop house to merely seedy apartments.
We were fortunate to have met a few of the building's previous tenants who told us
that when they lived there, not one but two murders had taken place.
Now as to how many people
actually died in that building we will never know, but we knew someone had died there because
of some of the really strange activity kept reoccurring while we lived there.
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