I have another story for you: Years and years (and years) ago, when my brother and I were small, our grandmother had an office in the 4th & Pike Building in downtown Seattle. She was a self-employed businesswoman in an age when there weren't many around. We would go down to her office and sit (quietly, I'm sure) and wait for her to be done working. There were glass-fronted mail slots in the wall on each floor. You would put the mail in the slot, and it would fall all the way down to the lobby, where the postman would pick it up each day. We used to beg our grandmother for envelopes to be mailed, and we would put them in the maildrop and watch the envelopes fall through the tube. I remember sitting in the hallway in that building, hoping for someone on the floor above to drop a piece of mail so we could watch it slide by. The other day I was downtown with my friend Ann, having gone to the flower and garden show. We happened to catch the bus back home right in front of the 4th & Pike Building. With about ten minutes to kill until the bus came, I went inside and took pictures of the lobby, which I remember like it was yesterday. Even the smell is the same. I wish we'd had longer - I would have gone upstairs and taken more pictures. The 4th & Pike Building was completed in 1926, and you'll be shocked to hear it's at the corner of 4th and Pike. Hence the name. :) It has ten floors. The lobby floor is polished granite, the walls are marble, the elevator doors are brass, and the ceiling is accented in gold leaf. (I looked it up.) If you look closely, you can see the mail collection box on the back wall, with the glass-front mail tube coming down from the floors above. I didn't see any mail drop into the box while we were there. So this is for my brother Trent, who I'm sure remembers this lobby every bit as well as I do.