S-R Archive find of the day: In this Dec. 19, 1957, photo, firemen haul mannequins from a display window at Savon's Store, 801 W. Riverside Ave., which was destroyed by fire. Heavy smoke and heat from the fiercely burning blaze made firefighters' jobs tougher than...
View a gallery of photos from around the world on Tuesday, April 26, 2016.
Did you attend the 2016 KOSÉ Team Challenge? Before the start of the event, Dan Pelle covered the U.S. figure skaters' visit to Sacred Heart Children's Hospital. Colin Mulvany covered the first day of the Team Challenge. Jesse Tinsley jumped in to help on Saturday...
In this June 27, 1936, photo, the ladies of the sky, women air pilots, roared into Spokane from all points of the compass to take part in Spokane's first women's air meet at Felts Field. Pictured are four pilots, each of whom was a skilled…
Watch for an upcoming story about the former branch library building in Hillyard.
Social dancing goes all the way back to American settlers' European roots, but Americans went crazy for dancing during the jazz era. In Spokane, dance halls, ranging from sedate to raucous, were the centers of social life.
The Then and Now column on Mar. 14 focused on Home Telephone and Telegraph, the local phone company in Spokane from around 1905 until the name was dropped in the 1930s.
The building disappeared in Spokane, but if you're old enough to remember it, there are some great stories to be told about the Hotel Spokane.
The Westminster Congregational United Church of Christ is exactly what it sounds like, a mix of denominations all under the roof of a historic Spokane church building from 1891.
The nuns of the Sisters of the Names of Jesus and Mary, also called the Sisters of the Holy Names, started many educational works in Spokane in 125 years.
The influence of the Catholic church, tradition and culture has been present since the 1880s in Spokane.
The expansive nuclear reservation in Eastern Washington, where the federal government created radioactive material for the nuclear bomb at Nagasaki and for nuclear arms during the cold war, is now a national park.
For a few short years, ski jumping on a hill at the Wandermere golf course was all the rage.
What was the worst winter in Spokane? Weather has been recorded in Spokane since 1888, but which winter was the coldest? The snowiest?
Since all before World War II, skiers have trekked to the top of Mount Spokane to carve runs in the snow. John Linder and his family created a respite stop for mountain travelers.
The busy holidays kept me from posting about the Then and Now columns recently. Here are the links. - Jesse Tinsley
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