From 1975: The Spokane Chronicle was monitoring the progress of three local pinball wizards who were attempting to break the Guinness Book of World Record’s mark for continuous pinball play.
Parents began forming a line outside the Christmas Bureau by 2 a.m. Thursday, willing to wait eight hours for the doors to open to find that just-right gift for their children, along with a food voucher to ease the cost of a holiday meal.
From 1975: Carrie Jordan, mother of the late Craig S. Jordan, issued a statement through her attorney, Carl Maxey, “strenuously objecting” to the way the coroner’s inquest into the death of her son was conducted.
Recently, the news headlines announced that the Farmers’ Almanac was shutting down. That sent a shock wave through the gardening community. Gardeners everywhere are wondering where they were going to get their winter forecasts, moon planting schedules and the other humorous bits found in this over 200-year-old tradition.
From 1975: When Craig S. Jordan, 17, crashed through a glass storm door, the thought that flashed through the mind of Spokane police officer John D. Moore, was, “Oh, God, he’s got a gun.”
Some assembly was required Monday as Christmas Bureau volunteers unboxed new toys and put some together for display so parents looking for a gift for their children could see what they look like.
The owner of a Spokane Valley company will receive roughly $64,000 from the city of Spokane three years after a police vehicle responding to a false alarm crashed into one of its vans.
Students in the Woodshop Club at Rogers High School have been working for months to make wooden tools, tool boxes, cars, reindeer and sleighs to be given to children at the Christmas Bureau when it opens later this week.
The Knickerbocker Apartments at Fifth Avenue and Howard Street in Spokane were built in 1911 in the midst of the city’s great period of growth. Apartments and hotels were springing up to house the workers flooding into the city.
Spokane’s Marshallese community came together in a celebratory church service at the Salvation Army on Sunday to remember a time more than 100 years ago when the power of faith brought them together.
The Spokane Chiefs figured their fans had waited long enough and scored their first goal of the annual Teddy Bear Toss game three minutes and four seconds into the second period, with quite a few fans still in line for concessions.
