An Overview of Selected Sky Slides from the Past
From the early wooden slides of the 1900s to the more modern fiberglass ones of the late 1960s and 1970s, Sky Slides carved out a…
Read MoreThe Shadle Park Water Tank – A Distinctive Historical Landmark
If ever there was a symbol for Shadle Park and the surrounding northside of Spokane, it is the green and gold massive steel water tank….
Read MoreRemembering the Standard Stock Exchange and the Spokane Stock Exchange
History of the Exchange The Spokane Stock Exchange was established in 1896 and convened its first trading session in a storeroom next to the Trader’s…
Read MoreThe Poor Clare Nuns – Over 100 Years in Spokane and Still Going Strong
It has been such a pleasure and an honor to live near the Poor Clare Nuns here in Spokane since 1962. They are a cloistered…
Read MoreRemembering the Broadview Dairy
It isn’t often in the Northwest that we find a merger of history involving agriculture, commerce, the successes and failures of economics, and a surviving…
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