What Seattle’s Historic Pioneer Square Looks Like In Summer 2024 | Walking Tour 🚶🏻‍♂️

A narrated walking tour of Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square. The video begins at around 11 AM after coffee at Caffe Umbrian at Occidental Square Park.
This was filmed on Sunday July 28, 2024. A look at what Seattle’s first neighborhood looks like in the summer of 2024.
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[@gmoney4526]

I actually enjoyed the talking. Not annoying but extremely informative. Especially for someone who has never been to Seattle

[@LaoOcean]

A look at Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square in the middle of summer 2024. Hope you enjoy this video in 4K 60! ✌️

[@MP-lq3xx]

Thank you!

[@patricktravis8119]

Thanks!

[@rayniesessions980]

Ok. So I will be there the end of October with my kids (20 and 16) and my old man. Would love a walking tour and go eat good food. Really. You should absolutely do this. 😊

[@Diego-fb5fq]

Thanks! I don't mind the talking. This was a part of my daily life 30 years ago, but now it's just a review of my occasional shortcuts driving through to get to the ferry. Maybe I'll sign on to a walking tour someday. I recall excellent guides at places like the Underground tour. I do hope the city recovers its former vibrancy for younger people to enjoy living in.

[@mlwtennessee322]

My favorite kind of Lao Ocean video! I enjoy your commentary quite a bit. I certainly hope that you aren't losing interest in making videos...I've missed you. Thank you for the lovely stroll this morning. I love this city!

[@LaoOcean]

I’m glad I have at least one viewer for this style of video. 😀

[@chrisrankinsmusiccrush9493]

Do it Denis. You’d be great at it I’m a professional tour guide here in Perth Western Australia and I love it. Very rewarding job I highly recommend you do it. You know your stuff and you could really show off your Seattle well.

[@jeremycrumbaugh1546]

Started watching your walks 3 years ago before a trip to Seattle. Still watching them from the Midwest!

[@kymysteries]

Thanks for the Tour

[@LaoOcean]

Thank you!

[@MatèoSEAHawks]

Coming in October all way from upstate NY, an updated waterfront video would be so awesome so I know what to loook for and what to expect

[@gomimaninoakland]

Thanks!

[@LaoOcean]

Thank you!

[@ThirtyPack.]

As a former Seattelite I enjoy theese walking vids of my old stomping grounds,ty👊

[@LaoOcean]

👊

[@gomimaninoakland]

This is the walk and area i wonder around when i come to down town seattle I love that area and I take lots of pictures and walk around for a bit. Then I usually go to pike place market. And go look for my friend that makes and sells natural soap and Deodorantce and even tooth paste. I stock up when i am up there on my vacation. it nice to see a place I was in about a month or so ago. I have been staying In burien and mostly explore that side I take the water taxi over for any down town adventure i love coming in that way. Thanks for the great video Dennis

[@MatèoSEAHawks]

Okay I'll make a deal, a walking tour of the updated waterfront and a quick walk through of the market, I'll buy you your next coffee 😄 I need entertainment for my weekend morning cardio, plus I want to see the changes and what to look for and expect for my October trip!

[@gi169]

Woo, hoo... A Mr. Ocean video... Good to see you. I was just watching LaoOcean2.0😂🤣😅🍻

[@LaoOcean]

It’s a good day! 😀😅😂🍻

[@gi169]

​@@LaoOcean Brother when you announce the LaoOcean Seattle tour company I will make every effort to be on the first tour and I will get the first round of beers, probably the second too... The 2160p at 60fps looked awesome the narration also awesome, thank you for the video Mr. Ocean. 👍🍻✌️

[@GraduateSnoopMenuce]

Seattle is really fun place to hangout after I graduated high school!!!!

[@MatèoSEAHawks]

A waterfront video by this weekend would be wonderful 😁🥳🙏🏽🙌🏽

[@Suaveone1]

Thank you Lao 💛☀️

[@Diego-fb5fq]

My long-ago California girlfriend's brother did Dashiell Hammett tours of the Bay Area. I was on a block in L.A. that featured Charles Bronson's house in Death Wish. You might try art or literature or cinematic destinations around Puget Sound or just in Seattle. Probably someone is already doing things like that, but maybe look for existing specialty tours to sample and see if you can duplicate or improve on them. Maybe arrange brief meetings/meals with the various immigrant communities around the city. And of course the parks. I'd bet there's an Olmstead tour. A must for out-of-towners.

[@erickeddings]

Love Seattle Walks! Thanks Lao. Which camera are you shooting with here?

[@LaoOcean]

@@erickeddings DJI Action 4

[@AleutianDrones]

Wife and I would be very interested in a city tour!!

[@pawpawthebeagle9442]

1:45 Oh wow! I forgot they were redoing South Main St. to improve that corridor from the buses on 3rd, to the waterfront. Finally got rid of the raised, old trolley platform. It’s sad that it was a similar link to the city’s past, like the Pioneer Square pergola. It was an eyesore and a trouble spot at times for myself as security supervisor for my eventual former employer, Weyerhaeuser. Well, who am I kidding though. Most all through that area within a mile radius was/is VERY sketchy, as those of us familiar with that whole area know. Change is a constant.

[@LaoOcean]

@@pawpawthebeagle9442 Yeah thanks for adding info regarding the trolley. Big change there for sure!

[@pawpawthebeagle9442]

@@LaoOceanno problem, more info. to come from me in comments…lol

[@5plus9equals7]

18:13 Defiantly prefer 60fps, especially for a video with lots of movement.

[@LaoOcean]

💯

[@gaybear5328]

P Square looks so CLEAN! Were the Kia Boys with the Glock Switches

[@GraduateSnoopMenuce]

Snoop menuce earned his high school diploma time to explore Seattle with lao ocean I got my high school diploma graduated high school

[@Baselle]

At 4:30 parking lot across the street was the former site of the Dairyland. Trumps grandfather worked there before heading to the Klondike to mine the miners.

[@SpuzzyLargo]

I admire how Seattle and its businesses paint over graffiti. It's a constant battle. Compare recent walking tours of Montreal or some European (including Scandinavia) cities, for example.

[@river4462]

Looks sad and disturbing the city with lots closed down and not alive😢

[@HolgerDanske]

You were in my neck of the woods. Had I known, I'd buy you lunch and give you a good cigar

[@LaoOcean]

A cigar would’ve been 🔥!

[@HolgerDanske]

@@LaoOcean I have a Cohiba Blue saved just for you.

[@LaoOcean]

@@HolgerDanske I must return to Pioneer Square! 😀

[@nathandanner4030]

EFF-EH-SUS the Bible Book a Ephesians was written by The Apostle Paul to the Early Christian Church in The Greek City of Ephesus...we've been going through this book in Church for several Months!

[@LaoOcean]

@@nathandanner4030 Ahhh gracias!

[@pawpawthebeagle9442]

Makes me wonder if this Ephesus is the same one as in my hometown neck of the woods, West Seattle. It served Mediterranean cuisine of course, but it closed at some point. Landlord wanted 100% property rent increase, and a redevelopment plan that was in the works stalled out.

[@pawpawthebeagle9442]

I used to talk to the original tenant/owner of that space, Ali. He ran at the time “Cherry Street Public House,” (C- you know what 💀 to that location) and I assume runs all the other Cherry Street Coffee locations in the city (I know Dennis knows about Cherry Street…Ali, I know also at the time ran the first C.S. location on 700 1st Ave & Cherry St). He told me he sunk $600,000 on the build out (not foundational) of the inside of that space…what you’d essentially see now if you went in there. Man those days messed up so much, in so many ways!

[@michaelklein8105]

this seems pointless

[@LaoOcean]

@@michaelklein8105 pho real tho