In November 1903, the Hypotheek Bank ended 10 years of heavily selling land downtown. The bank sold its last downtown lot in November, 1904 -  ending their liquidation of foreclosed land acquired after the Panic of 1893.

Once Riverside Avenue was...

Spirit Lake was the off-the-beaten path place where Frank Blackwell built his Panhandle Lumber Mill to saw the untouched forests and ship lumber back to Spokane.

The first mention of a plan to run a trolley the 42 miles from Spokane...

Derby Stragglers Flocking into City

September 22, 1927

Clearing skies and sunshine by noon started a heavy flow of people to Felts Field, Parkwater.   By 10 o’clock a crowd of 5,000 anxiously awaited the arrival of two planes from New York in...

 The plan is to turn Mica Peak Into A Park

While not as high as the mound of earth and rock called Mt Spokane, Mica Peak may be getting an auto road to the top.

There is a plan to place an...

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The city has a problem.  The main street downtown is crowded with transients.  There are many, many unemployed men and wandering boys.  It is 1934 and the country is in the depths of the Great Depression.

The First Solution

To house the...

The government under the new Roosevelt administration has just approved a new Relief Program.

The relief rations are based on needs and will be administered by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC), a 1933 New Deal Roosevelt program.

The relief money is not...