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• Then and Now: Courthouse jail

  May 28, 2012 in City on Page A5 In the older photo, Sheriff Christopher C. Dempsey may have been preparing for the execution of Gin Pong, who was convicted of a gruesome hatchet murder. The Spokesman-Review reported Pong … 7

• Then and Now: Morris Block

  May 21, 2012 in City on Page A5 The Morris Block was built on the northeast corner of Sprague Avenue and Post Street in 1890, in the wake of Spokane’s fire of 1889. The Great Eastern building, above …

• Akifumi Kato: A jockey’s odyssey

  May 14, 2012 in Sports Those who remember horse racing in Spokane, remember Playfair Race Course. And those who remember Playfair, probably recall Akifumi Kato, the jockey who, strictly speaking, became the most successful rider … 2

• Then and Now: Auditorium Theater, demolished in 1934

  May 14, 2012 in City on Page A5 The Auditorium Theater highlighted Spokane as the outpost of culture on the western plains. The building’s owners, John Browne and Anthony Cannon, arrived in the dusty village of Spokan Falls …

• Then and Now: Bloomsday

  May 7, 2012 in City on Page A5 The Lilac Bloomsday Run welcomed runners and walkers for the 36th time this year, a long way from its modest start. Encouraged by the mayor and bolstered by sponsors and … 3

• Then and Now: Gonzaga’s former football stadium

  April 30, 2012 in City on Page A5 In the photo above, Gonzaga University’s football stadium dominates the east side of the campus. Before World War II, the university had a pretty good run as a football school. … 7

• ‘Hoss’ rides high

  April 24, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Gregg Smith has been called a lot of things over the years. During his playing career on Eastern Washington University’s basketball team, the 6-foot-10, 280-pound Smith had the nickname “Hoss” …

• Then and Now: Former EWU Eagle Gregg Smith

  April 23, 2012 in Sports Gregg Smith has been called a lot of things over the years. During his playing career on Eastern Washington University’s basketball team, the 6-foot-10, 280-pound Smith had the nickname “Hoss” … 1

• Then and Now photos: Riverfront Park

  April 23, 2012 in City on Page A5 Although explorers, traders and missionaries had traveled on horseback through the area since the early 1800s, the first white settlement at Spokane Falls was in 1871. James Glover built a … 8

• Then and Now photos: Historic City Hall

  April 16, 2012 in City on Page A5 The Spokane City Hall erected in 1894 at Howard and Front streets symbolized the optimism of a plains boomtown, and then fell victim to its success. It cost $165,000 to …

• Hatley leaves his mark on game

  April 9, 2012 in Sports The hard part is Sunday. That’s the day that reminds Reid Hatley what might have been. That’s the day his old roommate, Ricky Barnes, might be contending with one of …

• Then and Now photos: Spokane Middle Falls

  April 9, 2012 in City on Page A5 The Spokane Middle Falls circa 1888: The wooden structure at the lower left is an early Spokane water works, which likely featured water turbine to drive pumps to get the … 2

• Then and Now: Ready for war

  April 2, 2012 in City on Page A5 In the days following the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, Spokane began preparing for the next major attack. Spokane radio stations went off the air so enemy aircraft couldn’t follow … 8

• They’re still tight

  March 27, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 For half a decade, the Hepton name was synonymous with success at Central Valley. From Courtney’s first basketball season as a sophomore in 1989-90 through Kristin’s senior season in 1993-94, …

• Then & Now: CV’s Hepton sisters

  March 26, 2012 in Sports For half a decade, the Hepton name was synonymous with success at Central Valley. From Courtney’s first basketball season as a sophomore in 1989-90 through Kristin’s senior season in 1993-94, …

• Then and Now: Dairy dreams

  March 26, 2012 in City on Page A5 Brothers George and David Brown wanted to make it big in the butter business. They journeyed to Spokane in 1888 and formed Hazelwood Farms, named after their father’s farm in … 6

• Then and Now: Monroe Street

  March 19, 2012 in City on Page A5 The year 1891 was monumental for the town of Spokane Falls, which voted to change its name to Spokane – perhaps to sound more sophisticated and less rustic. Electricity was … 7

• Then and Now photos: City Market

  March 12, 2012 in City on Page A5 An advertisement in a 1911 edition of the Spokane Chronicle declared that the City Market, at Second Avenue and Stevens Street, was built for the “economical housekeepers of Spokane.” The … 7

• Then and Now photos: Loma Vista homes

  February 27, 2012 in City on Page A5 Homes were selling fast in the Loma Vista neighborhood in North Spokane in 1950. New schools, including Madison, Adams and Hamilton, were being built. The Spokesman-Review reported that year that … 4

• Then and Now photos: Review Tower

  February 20, 2012 in City on Page A5 The Rev. Thomas G. Watson, a Presbyterian missionary from Waukesha, Wis., stepped off a train in Spokan Falls, as Spokane was then known, in 1883 to start a new church … 1

• Then and Now: Empire start

  February 13, 2012 in City on Page A5 When the office block was built on the southwest corner of Lincoln Street and Riverside Avenue in 1900, it was named the Empire State Building in honor of New Yorker … 1

• Then & Now: Lisa Comstock-Schultz

  February 7, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 When Eastern Washington University’s diminutive point guard Chene Cooper this year became the women’s basketball all-time assist leader at the school, she broke a record that had stood for more …

• Then and Now photos: Legion Building

  February 6, 2012 in City on Page A5 It’s been called the Metals Building, the Assemblee Building and the American Legion Building. Spokane industrialist F. Lewis Clark built the elegant Renaissance Revival structure at West Riverside Avenue and …

• Former Eagle Tony Brooks stars in commercial

  January 30, 2012 in Sports After his days as a standout wide receiver at Eastern Washington, Tony Brooks has built a successful career as a State Farm Insurance agent, which in turn allowed him to …

• Then and Now photos: Historic hub

  January 30, 2012 in City on Page A5 The dusty town of Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, was booming with railroads, timber and mining in the late 19th century as black settlers came looking for opportunities and a place … 1

• Family resemblance

  January 24, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 Just from their experience in Spokane it might seem as if success came easily to Kirsti and Soren Olson. They had the charmed lives of standout students and athletes at …

• Then and now: Kirsti and Soren Olson

  January 23, 2012 in Sports Siblings Kirsti and Soren Olson have followed a similar path in life from high school standouts to college volleyball and now to the same profession as orthopedic surgeons.

• Photos Then & Now: Corner of Riverside and Wall

  January 23, 2012 in City on Page A5 Edward Herbert Jamieson, an attorney who settled in Spokane in 1882, founded Spokane Abstract Co. and built a two-story brick building on the southwest corner of Riverside Avenue and Wall …

• Photos Then and Now: Bright city night

  January 16, 2012 in City on Page A5 When a Spokane Chronicle photographer made a nighttime photo of South Stevens Street curving into West Ninth Avenue in 1966, Spokane was a bustling business center. Aluminum, timber products, chemicals, … 2

• Staying involved

  January 10, 2012 in Sports on Page B1 The piece of paper is weathered, dating back to the 1984-85 Greater Spokane League basketball season. The crude chart by this sportswriter was discovered recently and provided a week-by-week update … 1

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