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Isn't that the old Customs House in Charleston SC?

If you look at the base of the building you will see round openings. Back in the day when it was built back in the mid to late 1700's that lower area was used as a dungeon and prisoners where shackled to the wall. The openings had no windows just bars and when the Cooper and Ashley rivers crested too much the water would flood the dungeon and poor souls that were residing there for what ever reason would be getting very wet. Thank God there was no ACLU back then https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif

When it was built it was within a 100 yards of the marsh/beach area. If you go there today you will see that they have infilled the area quite a bit since then and water is now 4 or 5 blocks away with more than a few buildings placed between the old Customs House and the shore. There's a pretty cool pier too and a commons type area where a lot of people hang out. To the rigt of the picture and just down the street is the town houses known as Rainbow Row.....another one of Charleston's calling cards.

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Isn't that the old Customs House in Charleston SC?

this is actually the Charleston City Hall, on Broad St.
I don't know who was in the basement but they were probably getting wet also as this is just a few blocks inland. It was closed a few months ago, under renovation.

here is the customs house now, with the famous basement, right on Bay St.
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/charles...dings/usc1.jpg

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Actually Chris it's the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon. At the time it was built it served as an Exchange/Customs House as well as the Provost Dungeon.

Here's a link.

http://www.oldexchange.com/

Been spending a lot of summers in that neck of the woods since '81. Charleston, IMHO, is one of the most coolest towns I have ever been to.

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Interesting 68 GTX...

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[b]And the big Pontiac 2+2!

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OK Dog...........Who's the Gal standing next to your Dad's Torino convertible????

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Not Mrs. Dog ! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif
That's my sister's friend, Mary - her Dad was the Chief of the Elmont Volunteer Fire Dept. -
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Unfortunately she was one of many Long Island women to succumb to Breast Cancer at
an early age many years ago