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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

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Andy Michaels: More Ways to Tell You’re from CdA

-You had no idea that the "Dike Road" was really named "Rosenberry Drive."
-You remember Seltice as "the Highway".
-You went to YJ's for "smokies", to see the elk in the pen, and have a free sausages as a kid.
-You ate at Little Big Man Pizza (now Tomato Street).
-You drank beer at the Fish Inn.
-You bowled at both the Cove Bowl (at the Y) and Lake City Lanes (now Lake City Auto Body on 4th).
-You can remember "Chicken Sunday" at Cloud Nine.
-You remember that Brucci's was the Chelsea bar.
-You've parked on Rutledge Hill (now Armstrong Park) on a Saturday night.
-You've watched Hydroplane races from a barge on the Lake.
-The Rathskeller at Sherman and 14th was the wildest bar in town, and the drinking age was 19.
-You watched Bob's Big Boy become the Rocky Mountain Canary, become Henry's, become Dan Davis Realty on Sherman.
-You bought earrings for your girl from Dan Clark inside the Buttrey's mall (now Hastings).
-You know that a buttrey is for butter, like a pantry is for bread, and were respectively managed by a butler and a pantler.

Andy Michaels/29 Words or Less



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.