PORT ANGELES — Standing in a sunny upstairs bedroom where peeling, 1920s-era aqua wallpaper has witnessed better days, Don Perry likes to speculate on what took place there decades earlier.
“God, if these walls could only talk,” he says.
The bedroom is part of a once-flourishing brothel above what is now Family Shoe Store, 130 W. Front St., a building that dates back to the late 1800s.
It is one of numerous stops on a two-hour walking tour that delves above and below historic downtown Port Angeles, and Perry is making it his business to tell others what secrets those spaces hold.
The 19-year Port Angeles resident started offering public tours that include the city’s now-famous Underground three weeks ago.
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