Greetings from Spokane 1
Given the postcard choices available, I wonder who would have chosen to mail this. And why? Maybe these were free. www.en.flickeflu.com
The Slice archive for Dec. 28, 2011
WEDNESDAY, DEC. 28, 2011
This date in Slice history (1999)
Today's Slice question: What percentage of Spokane area lifers enjoy seeing newcomers with big ideas fall flat on their faces?
In some respects, 1956 looks like 2012
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Ice age
The ice was a little soft at the Riverfront Park rink this morning. It was perfectly fine for skating. They do a good job at the Ice Palace. Someone who hasn't skated much wouldn't even notice. And with the weather we're having, it certainly was…
Slate piece on onetime Spokane resident
http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/classic_poems/2011/12/the_mystery_of_vachel_lindsay.html
About time for a new calendar
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This date in Slice history (2001)
Today's Slice question: In recent weeks, what Inland Northwest workplace has been the area's most dessert-infested office?
No. 1 song on this date in 1977
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Asked and answered
The Slice had asked who would be spending part of Christmas visiting with distant family members via a Web camera system "My husband and I arranged a Skype session with his sister, Becky, who lives in Indonesia," wrote Judy York. They are on different sides…
A couple of personal records to report
I'm pretty sure Dec. 28 is the latest date in the calendar year that I have ridden my bike to work. But after providing those right-on-cue puffs of snow Saturday morning (the day before Christmas), Mother Nature can do whatever she wants and I won't…
GM, Alfred E. Neuman had same motto
www.oldcarbrochures.org I wonder how you say "I think we can take these guys" in Japanese.
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