Then and now: Early Birds Breakfast Club

During the Depression, nine business leaders sent out invitations to start a new club where businessmen could network and do public service, not unlike today’s Rotary or Kiwanis. The meetings would take place at breakfast, so it would be called The Early Birds Breakfast Club. For more than 35 years, the club played an important civic and social role in Spokane.

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Mon., Aug. 5, 2019

Members of the newly-formed Inland Empire Early Birds Breakfast Club hold one of their first meetings beside the falls, and under the railroad trestle going to the Union Depot, in June of 1932. The civic and social club focused on business networking, but eventually had a meeting room and bar in the basement of the Davenport Hotel where clubmembers socialized. The Early Birds Club closed down in 1968.

Libby Collection Eastern Washington Historical Society
The area alongside the lower falls on the Spokane River is now called Huntington Park and landscaped with trails taking visitors to area below the Monroe Street Bridge, where the original Monroe Street Project generator is now concealed below the observation deck. Photographed Tuesday, July 30, 2019.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review