TheDailyWoo - 873 (11/21/14) Underground Chattanooga Tunnel
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welcome everyone it's kind of dark down
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here cuz I am actually on the ground
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floor of Chattanooga when you're above
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on Chattanooga a lot of people do not
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realize from out of town like me that
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there's actually an original level
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underneath and I'm actually in the
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tunnels here with Clay you can't see him
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behind the light right here and
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Andy and they're actually showing me
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around some of the nether regions of
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Chattanooga and you were saying right
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over here is a Sports Complex correct
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yeah it's a fitness uh Fitness um club
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that utilizes the basement of their
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building and that's where all past those
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doors if we could get past them is where
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an indoor track and all the NAU
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equipment lay so uh what used to be two
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buildings that did the same job service
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the city with the trolleys and they as a
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result connected the two buildings with
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this tunnel are now two separate two
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separate
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companies but this is pretty much all
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that exists of underground Chattanooga
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at this at this point at this point now
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it's it's a misnomer to think that
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underground Chattanooga exists from the
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river all the way through downtown
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there's these patches where they brought
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in fil dirt and it the majority of the
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FI dirt was from here till about ML King
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and then they get needed as much past
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but there are still sections of town
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that the older buildings have the
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basement that was the original ground
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floor and there's a couple of tunnels
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that would connect uh buildings that had
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the same company was that some sort of a
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lighting area yep so when they laid this
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concrete they were able to put the the
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fixtures in
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place that is awesome kind of sketchy
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down here you definitely want to make
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sure good thing you have a flashlight I
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forgot my flashlights it's a good thing
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you guys have yours
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lots of
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pipes so this is all original
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construction here from the original
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ground level of Chattanooga that flooded
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what year did it flood they were
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experiencing flood they had a big flood
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in the late 1800s actually three major
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1800 floods and so it was around the
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turn of the century they decided hey
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let's address the issue by bringing in
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FL uh fil dirt and try to make downtown
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a little bit higher in ation didn't
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really work there was still flooding
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issues and that's one of the reasons why
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TVA the formation of TVA occurred was
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for I'll let you guys get in front of me
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let you get in front of me because you
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guys got the lights yeah I'll let you
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I'll go behind
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you I definitely appreciate you letting
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us down here to check this out sure yeah
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this is a part A lot of people do not
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get to see that's for
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sure it's water dripping a lot of rust
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there not as many buildings left in
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downtown Chattanooga from this era as
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there are in in a lot of other cities
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that are as old as we it's kind of
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unfortunate we've lost so much building
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Equity but uh decided to do that clean
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up in the 70s and ' 80s just a
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crime so it's nice to explore some of
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the old history
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old buildings of it what we do have
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and uh the the transportation company
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with what became our Regional
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Transportation authority continued to
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use these buildings that house the buses
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after you just hit your head so you got
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to be very careful no smoking
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sign should say duck yeah
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exactly actually picked up email down
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here put your uh put your flashlight on
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there that old no smoking
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sign this is incredible down here and
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now we're getting back towards the light
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which is where the restaurant and the
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bar is correct yep that's right the the
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the part of the restaurant that still
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that utilizes the basement is where you
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see the lights and in the basement is
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where you brew the beer well no it's
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it's where the beer is held oh it's
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where it's held yeah it's a conditioning
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tanks and what we call serving
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tanks oh
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yeah well your phone's going off there's
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an alarm there where's your phone look
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at these old lights
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now you can actually see where we're
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going out of the
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darkness so will this all eventually be
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renovated is this part of your guys
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property it's no it's it's owned by a
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group of people out of chattano
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the no plans to renovate this that I
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know and you were saying up here used to
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be where the trolley car cars were so if
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if he can get a good view of it there
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are concrete boxes that run the length
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of the building this is the wall of one
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this is the floor of it and here's the
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other wall and they are situated
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immediately under the
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rails in which the trolley came
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in and the reason for these boxes is it
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allowed the repairman who serviced the
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trolleys to be able to work underneath
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the rails
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and there were four you said there were
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four originally and there's only three
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left three originally four bays and
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within each Bay there was three
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rails and uh we lost one of the Bays
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that's now a parking lot but the three
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Bays were under this the uh this third
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of three it's pretty amazing to think
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that we're walking on the original
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ground floor of Chattanooga and that
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everyone above us is actually on a
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facade if you will a modern day
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facade it's kind of like the Disney
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utilidors
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in now we're getting closer back to
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civilization there you have it
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underground Chattanooga thank you to
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Clay to Andy really appreciate you let
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us down here sure what's the name and
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website of the place upstairs give them
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a plug oh Big River Grill Big River
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Grill much appreciated for letting us
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down here what is this over here this
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wall is that an a original wall also
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yeah the Terracotta is what they used
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prior to uh cinder block so that's an
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older all right we're going to go
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upstairs get something to eat maybe
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something to drink all right what I see
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you guys later goodbye see you