Temple, Texas downtown tunnel and Cellar Bookstore. Mr. Jones has filed away many of the stories of early Temple told to him by his customers, who remember when the Cellar was a speakeasy. Snub was shot, but managed to catch a taxi to King's Daughter's Hospital where he pulled though. Maybe it's true - maybe not.
Truth is sometimes stranger than non-fiction.
It seems that the old Temple High School generated enough steam from their boilers to sell the surplus to other downtown buildings, including the Kyle and Doering Hotels and the Arcadia Theater. The pipes were of course underground. Steam through iron pipe means condensation and rust and so tunnels were dug alongside the pipes for maintenance. Several entrances to these tunnels were scattered around the downtown area - one of them under the sidewalk next to the front door of The Cellar Bookstore. It is now bricked up and padlocked.