Jesse Tinsley

Today’s social media platforms serve many social, religious and political controversies to comment on. Before the internet, debates played out in public places and newspaper editorials and television talk shows.

One of Spokane’s most dignified apartment blocks, the Culmstock Arms, was erected by Walter M. Clist, who was construction supervisor on the Davenport Hotel in 1914 and general contractor on the Fox Theater starting in 1927.

The IBM Building was constructed in 1964 between Washington and Stevens streets, south of Seventh Avenue on property that was once the Parabola Apartments.

Petroleum businesses in Spokane started processing crude oil brought from distant oil fields in the 1920s.

The Spokane River, especially the deep gorge west of the downtown Spokane waterfalls, splits the city. The first span over the gorge was a rickety, wooden Monroe Street Bridge built in 1889.

Two new bridges over the Spokane River were being discussed in 1955. One was Maple Street Bridge, a daring attempt to bridge the river gorge with an elevated span that would require $6 million in bonds for funding. The other was an upgrade to the bridge that carried Greene Street in east Spokane for many years.

A Mead High football player assaulted at a 2023 football camp would, as a fifth-grader, dress for football early in the morning for a late-afternoon practice, according to his father.

Spokane’s Masonic Temple is arguably the grandest building left from the fraternal club era that spanned the late 1900s and early 20th century in Spokane. Prominent buildings were also created for the Odd Fellows and Elks clubs, but neither matches the scale and grandeur of the neoclassical hall at 1110 W. Riverside Ave.