Olympia Boos, Brews, & the Roaring '20s

Olympia Boos, Brews, & the Roaring '20s

$30

Please join us for our new and exciting Olympia tour and event! Travel back in time 100 years to the 1920s, when Olympia was young and wild! Local author (Haunted Graveyard of the Pacific, Spirits Along the Columbia River, Monsters and Miracles, Haunted Puget Sound, Pacific Northwest Legends and Lore, and an upcoming 2025 book on area dark tales), tour guide, professor and historian Ira Wesley Kitmacher will serve as your storyteller and guide.

The uninhibited “Roaring 20s,” between World Wars I and II and ending with the Great Depression, featured brothels, gambling houses, speakeasies, organized crime, silent movies, vaudeville, nightclubs, alcohol raids (Prohibition was the law), greater liberties for women, new technologies, and Jazz! You could get virtually anything you wanted if you knew where the secret door was and the password! America had just overcome the “Spanish Flu” and won World War I; the resulting millions of deaths fueled renewed interest in spiritualism and many reported hauntings!

We’ll meet outside the 1920’s-era Old Olympian Hotel (Olympia Ballroom) at 116 Legion Way SE. We’ll enter the lobby of the hotel, discussing it and Olympia’s other reportedly haunted 1920s-era buildings. We’ll then walk (wear comfortable shoes, be prepared for weather!) three blocks to the 1920s-themed Filibuster Cocktail Bar & Lounge (in the historic and reportedly haunted Security Building) at 404 Washington Street SE, in their atmospheric Depression-era walk-in bank vault! Alcohol and food will be available for purchase (not included in the ticket price).

Only those 21 years old and older may participate.

Discover more about Ira HERE

OLD OLYMPIA HOTEL

We’ll meet outside the 1920’s-era Olympia Ballroom in the Old Olympia Hotel at .

116 Legion Way SE, Olympia, WA 98501

The uninhibited “Roaring 20s,” between World Wars I and II and ending with the Great Depression, featured brothels, gambling houses, speakeasies, organized crime, silent movies, vaudeville, nightclubs, alcohol raids (Prohibition was the law), greater liberties for women, new technologies, and Jazz!

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Boos, Brews, & the Roaring '20s