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Features writer Paul Turner is a columnist for The Spokesman-Review in the Features department. He writes "The Slice" column, which appears six times a week and produces general features stories for the Today section.
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mikmca on The Spokane way on May 26 at 8:31 p.m.
It is tragic to see what has become of the Ridpath. My mom was a banquet waitress there for 20 years. The Ridpath Roof had the best dinner view in town. Every important visitor to town stayed there. If someone doesn’t buy it and restore it to it’s former glory, I hope they do just blow it up and turn it in to a parking lot.
mikmca on Preview of upcoming Slice columns on May 26 at 8:23 p.m.
Your question about the heyday of FM radio in Spokane the Saturday column, it had to be the middle 70’s to early 80’s. There used to be a great FM station, 92.9 KREM-FM. They had great DJ’s and played music targeted for young adults. They played requests and had all kinds of call in contests for various merchandise. I won a baseball cap on one occasion and got to play in an airband in the St Patricks parade on another . After midnight they would always play a whole album side uninterrupted. Then they sold out and became 93 Zoo FM in 1984. FM radio in Spokane has never been the same since. There was also KHQ FM, that also targeted the same audience, but they also sold out to the younger crowd about the same time.
lowtechmaster on Appearing on this date at Expo 74 on May 26 at 5:18 p.m.
An all-time great, particularly for his entertainment of our armed forces!!
MikeA on The Spokane way on May 25 at 5:45 p.m.
This post reminds me of a book I just “read” – it is actually a very well done (but tragic) photographic essay called “The Ruins of Detroit”…which is, well, about the incredible ruins of a once strong and vibrant city called Detroit.
There is a sequence in the book about a huge movie theater downtown with a seating capacity of something like 4,000 and containing the intricate decorative scollwork and sweeping lobbies characteristic of of any grand theater of the day. Only the images are of a structure that has been rudely amputated internally and made into a three-level parking garage. It is probably the most interestingly-decorated garage in existence with swooping vaulted ceilings and many remnants of its former grandeur.
The final kicker though is the last photograph in the sequence, where the caption reveals that (irony of ironies) this mutant modern-day homage to the automobile that is desecrating this once-lovely theater…sits on the very spot where Henry Ford assembled his first automobile.
MikeA on Closest serenade in history on May 25 at 5:29 p.m.
Maybe riding Honda motorbikes makes you deaf ??
MikeA on What not to do this holiday weekend on May 25 at 5:27 p.m.
I’ll bet Dino didn’t look out the window once…what with the multiple distractions inside the car!
lowtechmaster on When is a hamburger just too big? on May 25 at 5:18 p.m.
mikmca, I also agree!
lowtechmaster on The Spokane way on May 25 at 5:16 p.m.
Question: as far as I can tell, East Francis is about to go from a four lane road to a two lane road with a third turn lane and bicycle paths. How do those forward-thinking urban planners expect two traffic lanes to carry the heavy traffic that now occupies four lanes???
MikeA on Still refer to this building by that name? on May 25 at 5:16 p.m.
I think we were Mikmca!!
lowtechmaster on Is it hard to be vegetarian in Spokane? on May 25 at 5:14 p.m.
Nothing against vegans, but I was born an omnivore…had no control over that…and I will die an omnivore.
lowtechmaster on Something in the air on May 25 at 5:12 p.m.
Years ago in a suburb of Boston, we had skunk residents year round (possibly because my wife put a tub of sunflower seeds out every day). We also had possums, ground hogs, and a couple of other critters. We had a large enclosed back porch which was mostly sliding glass doors with screens. It was quite common to see a skunk, or other beast, waddle up to the tub by an open door. Our cat used to lie right in front of that door. We NEVER had any problems, even when a possum nipped at the nose of a skunk!
lowtechmaster on Young people have always been crazy on May 25 at 5:05 p.m.
Sorry. My age is showing. Who is Bobby?
lowtechmaster on What not to do this holiday weekend on May 25 at 5:04 p.m.
But if you buckle your seat belts and do not text or use a cell phone, you’ll be fine??
lowtechmaster on Preview of upcoming Slice columns on May 25 at 5:03 p.m.
Saturday and Monday, at least, sound interesting!
lowtechmaster on Green movement -- the early years on May 25 at 5:01 p.m.
In 1958 I took a train from Boston to Kansas City for a conference. It looked nothing like the green train here. And I sat up all the way. And the food I could get on the train was horrible. And I had to change trains in Chicago and asked to be taken to the “other” station, only to discover there were several. The return trip was equally as memorable.
lowtechmaster on Smoke signals on May 25 at 4:58 p.m.
Another “believe it or not.” Over half a century ago, when I was in Boy Scouts, we tried to learn to communicate via smoke signals. It was a disaster (although both teams did make smoke).
arliacne on Is it hard to be vegetarian in Spokane? on May 25 at 2:18 p.m.
It was a joke, son.
pault on This date in Slice history (1997) on May 25 at 2:08 p.m.
That was a while ago, but I think I meant to refer to going back to school after the three-day weekend.
Jumpervint on This date in Slice history (1997) on May 25 at 1:55 p.m.
Gees… There’s still 3 weeks of school left and you’re already throwing around the BTS word!
Jumpervint on Is it hard to be vegetarian in Spokane? on May 25 at 1:52 p.m.
Being a vegetarian anywhere is pretty much the same. People assume you are out to change them or proselytize and immediately get defensive/combative. I don’t tell people what to eat; don’t tell me what to eat. And I don’t think carnivores/omnivores should be damned for what kind of teeth they have.
mikmca on Still refer to this building by that name? on May 25 at 9:33 a.m.
MikeA… Did you happen to graduate from NC in 7?. If so, we were classmates.
mikmca on Who remembers Mead Speedway? on May 25 at 9:27 a.m.
I think Mead Speedway was before my time, but I spent many a weekend at the Deer Park Drag Strip. “Big Daddy” Don Garlits, Don “The Snake” Prudhomme, Ed “The Ace” McColloch and Tom “The Mongoose” McEwen were regulars there. And they use to have all-comers races for anyone with a helmet and a car that could pass an NHRA safety inspection.
pault on When is a hamburger just too big? on May 25 at 9:23 a.m.
I agree. Have a good weekend, mikmca.
mikmca on When is a hamburger just too big? on May 25 at 9:18 a.m.
If you can’t bite both buns at the same time, it is too big.
mikmca on Something in the air on May 25 at 9:16 a.m.
I’m glad I live on the west side of the state. Raccoons and possums don’t smell like skunks.
arliacne on Is it hard to be vegetarian in Spokane? on May 25 at 8:09 a.m.
Vegetarians be damned. We weren’t given incisors for ripping apart tofu.
MikeA on On this date at Expo 74 on May 24 at 5:43 p.m.
I always wondered what happened to him…(after Fred took him down from the shed of course).
One of the Expo entertainment tickets we latched onto right away.
MikeA on Still refer to this building by that name? on May 24 at 5:40 p.m.
Yup…site of my first “real” job, and the first 10 years of my career in what is now called “Information Systems” … I think back then it was just “Data Processing”.
MikeA on Occupations/Insanely firm handshakes on May 24 at 5:38 p.m.
I’m not sure about occupations, but there is a definite line between a good, friendly and firm handshake and over-the-top. I personally draw the line when I hear bones (in my hand) popping or I can still see reduced circulation 10 minutes after.
One of the latter bonecrushers immediately puts me on alert — “what has this guy got to hide or overcompensate for?”.
I must admit, after having been to many parts of the world, I fully understand many cultures’ utter revulsion at a handshake of any magnitude. It is a pretty nasty, germ-filled habit, and may give a false impression that is completely unintentional (above).
dkmiles on Occupations/Insanely firm handshakes on May 24 at 2:00 p.m.
Those pilots from Vandalia were forced to load stuff on their planes and built muscles in the process. The company went broke - don’t know what happened to the pilots.