Smith Tower

reception were in the Chinese Room. Such a cool venue for a wedding. Riding the glass elevator with it’s own operator was a trip! The Chinese Room was beautiful. Walking around the observation deck drinking bubbly and listening to the musical mix picked by my little bro and his wifey, made for a memorable evening indeed!

This photo of a Smith Tower made from sugar cubes was taken last winter at Seattle’s Gingerbread Village.

I think it’s kind of expensive for just going up to the top of a tower and looking around, but the view is pretty impressive and you can take some nice photos.

if you take the elevator to the Chinese Room at the top of the Smith Tower, sit in the big black ornate hand carrved chair and make a wish, you will be married within a year.

I don’t know if there is any truth to that, but it worked for me.

Smith Tower has an old school glass elevator. Old school in that it’s ornate, actually crafted by actual craftsmen. Old school in that it’s operated by hand (not with buttons and such) by an elevator man rumored to live at the top of the tower as a perk of the job. Old school in that its door, and all the entry doors leading into it, are made of glass, so you can see all the building’s foyers flash by on your way to the top. It’s like watching a silent movie, 48 still frames of a floor followed by 48 still frames of the next. Each is surprisingly distinct in layout and decor, yet you have only seconds to imagine a vignette for each one as you fly by. Luckily, just as this exercise wears out your brain, you’re at the 35th floor. The elevator man stops the car, opens up his old school door, and lets you step off into the Chinese Room to make your own scene.