Pendleton, Oregon has a lively, infamous and entertaining past. No town has a more colorful history than Pendleton! In the mid 1800's the Chinese were imported from Shanghai to help build some of the towns of the west and also to build the railroads in this country. They worked for practically nothing and lived very frugally underground in many cities. They came here in 1850 and were here until around 1956. We took the tour of the underground city with a guide. On the tour,through the tunnels beneath the streets of Pendleton, we saw the Shamrock Card Room, Hop Sing's Chinese Laundry, the Empire Ice Cream Parlor. We visited the old Empire Meat Market, stood under the sidewalk prisms, and went through the secret passageway to the Prohibiton Card Room. The tunnels also lead to the
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