Notorious 25th Street Walking Tour

In Ogden, we love to tell how Al Capone once refused to stay here, because the city was “too wild” for him.

Notorious Two Bit Street certainly deserved its reputation. But if Ogden was too scary for the legendary Al Capone, who was actually here? An amazing cast of larger-than-life characters. The whole world piled into Ogden in its railroad heyday. Penniless dreamers from all over the world lived together here in a city that was notoriously wild and free.

On this stroll up and down 25th Street, you’ll walk in the footsteps of Ogden’s most notorious madams, bootleggers, gangsters and swindlers.

You’ll experience:

• the legend of Gentile Kate, a powerful Madam who was delightfully victorious in her lifelong rivalry with Mormon Prophet Brigham Young

• the site of Belle London’s famed Electric Alley (Victorian red light district), and the stories of women who lived and worked there

• honky-tonk saloons that hid secret boxing rings and gambling dens

• former speakeasies operated by colorful characters like Greek immigrant Curly Pappas and Irish ex-con Eddie Doherty

• the mystery of “Murder, Inc.”: did Fannie Lawson really run a murder hotel?

• Rose Davie’s infamous “Rose Rooms”— men lined up around the block waiting to get in

• the true story of a cinematic wild-west shootout at the Capital Saloon

• the hidden history of opium dens and underground tunnels

• the barbershop at the heart of Japantown, and the NBA player born and raised there

• the location of famed jazz club Porters and Waiters — where all the jazz greats played, and gambled in the back room

…and much more —you can’t make this stuff up.

Spend an hour walking with me along Historic 25th Street, a designated National Historic District. I’ll tell you all the wildest stories right where they happened. These are hidden histories you’d never learn by reading signs or plaques. The stories have long been swept under the rug, but I’ll show you little clues to our past, hidden in the architecture itself.

Experience unforgettable stories of our human frailty in all its wild glory on the Notorious 25th Street Walking Tour.

$200 for up to 20 people.