Dog days of summer: the best places to get a hot dog in the Spokane area

Hot dogs are cheap. And, while they might trace their roots to Europe, they are also quintessentially American.

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Tue., June 27, 2017

The speciality at Big Red's is the Chicago-style dogs.

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SRX BIG RED'S BACON HOT DOG

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Bob Hetnar poses with his cart in downtown Spokane in this file photo from last fall.

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Customers can buy play hot dogs and doctor them up themselves at Hot Dog Bob’s cart in downtown Spokane. Or, they can let him do the dressing.

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Hot Dog Bob enjoys a good laugh with customers at his cart in this file photo from last fall.

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Hot Dog Bob dresses a frank at his cart in this file photo from last fall.

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The “I Love Spokane” dog at Wild Dawgs in downtown Spokane includes cream cheese and a topping of crushed potato chips.

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Doug Bickford, who runs the hotdog stand in front of the Spokane County Courthouse, plays an original blues number about being the hotdog man Friday, May 19, 2017. The hot dog stand is the meeting place for lawyers, secretaries, offenders and commissioners each day Bickford is open.

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Franko’s Dog House in Post Falls.

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Franko’s Dog House in Post Falls.

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