It was 30 years ago (Thursday) that The Coeur d’Alene Resort opened to the public. “It was really an exciting and wonderful day,” said Hagadone Hospitality president and Resort co-owner Jerry Jaeger, who remembers that historic day in 1986. It was a drizzly day, he said. People stood in the rain for hours to be some of the first to explore the fancy new resort on the north shore of Lake Coeur d’Alene. Jaeger said he and his wife, Ellen, went on a company tour with Duane and Lola Hagadone. They stayed in the back of the tour, welcoming visitors and shaking hands with everyone they met. “There were 25,000 hands that we shook,” Jaeger recalled Tuesday. “I can tell you, at the end of the night, we all had sore hands”/Devin Heilman, Coeur d'Alene Press. More here.

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