HMOffsuite: The year they used tear gas to ‘disperse’ the (hydroplane race) crowd, I was 16. (We had another thread where we mentioned some stupid stuff we did as a kid?). I thought it would be really ‘cool’ to have a souvenir to take home so I grabbed a ‘spent’ tear gas capsule. Put it in my car for the drive back to Spokane. Lesson learned: Those things keep going for a long time and the smell remained in the car for weeks, in addition to my gassing myself.
Question: Do you have any souvenirs from Coeur d'Alene's bygone days?
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.
thread where we mentioned some stupid stuff we did as a kid?). I thought it would be really ‘cool’ to have a souvenir to take home so I grabbed a ‘spent’ tear gas capsule. Put it in my car for the drive back to Spokane. Lesson learned: Those things keep going for a long time and the smell remained in the car for weeks, in addition to my gassing myself.
