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Jesse Tinsley

Jesse Tinsley

Current Position: photojournalist

Jesse Tinsley joined The Spokesman-Review in 1989. He currently is a photojournalist in the Photo Department covering daily news and shoots drone photography.

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  • Keeping memories alive: Greg Jensen stands and salutes as taps is played Monday during military honors offered at the chapel nearby at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake. Jensen, a Vietnam-era veteran of the Air Force, goes to the cemetery almost every day with his lawn chair and a Bible to visit the grave of his wife of 42 years, Estrella. “It’s been 16 months and I miss her every day,” he said. Indoors, a handful of veterans and a few family members read the names of veterans who died without a military funeral, said prayers and folded a flag, followed by a gun salute and taps.

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  • Ross Welburn of Hayden rides his shark cycle in the parade at Kinetic Fest, a daylong celebration of moving sculpture and human-powered transportation Saturday at the Riverstone development in Coeur d'Alene Sunday, July 12. Welburn created the frame from wood and plastic pipe and covered it with plastic.

  • Baseball great George Brett meets with Mike Redmon before the Northwest League-Pioneer League All-Star Game.

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  • Rogers players celebrate after beating West Valley. The Pirates have two victories – back to back – for the first time since 2011.

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  • Lewis and Clark receiver Leo Haghighi, left, hovers over the goal line and makes a diving touchdown catch past the outstretched arms of Mead's Beau Skinner, right, the LC's first score of the game in the first half, Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, at Joe Albi Stadium.

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  • Eastern Washington standout receiver Cooper Kupp scampers for a few more yards while straight-arming Northern Arizona’s Eddie Horn (7) in the first half Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015 at EWU’s Roos Field.

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  • Matt Van Vleet, who lives on 18th Ave., east of Bernard, surveys the damage to his garage and two cars from a neighbor's tree, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. Another car now shown, a Subaru, was purchased only a week ago.

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  • South Arthur Street between 27th and 28th avenues remained blocked Saturday by fallen power poles, lines and trees.

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  • Michele and John Barron stand quietly after laying a paving stone inscribed with their son's name in the walkway surrounding the new memorialoutside the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. Josh Barron, a U.S. Marine, was killed in the crash of a V-22 Osprey aircraft in Hawaii in May 2015.

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News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Thornhill Funeral Home

The modern architecture structure at 1322 N. Monroe St. was built in 1929 for Mission Funeral Home, owned by H.W. Kolander, J.A. Lybecker, of Spokane, and L.C. Nesbit, of Seattle.
News >  Washington

Then and Now: Anita Bryant in Spokane

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.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Culmstock Arms

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.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: IBM Building

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

Then and Now: Maple Street Bridge

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.
News >  Washington

Then and Now: Greene Street Bridge

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.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Masonic Temple

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.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Volkswagen dealerships in Spokane

It took some visionary car dealers to bring a tiny air-cooled four-cylinder German car to Spokane. The round-topped two-door was simply called the Type 1 and the panel van, introduced in 1950, was called the Type 2.

Then and Now: Women’s wear in Spokane

The prosperity of early Spokane led to more leisure time at the turn of the 20th century in the city. Shopping and fashion became part of modern life in a city founded on mining, manufacturing, agriculture and railroads.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: The Lincoln Building

In the depths of the Great Depression, the Federal Home Loan Bank Act of 1932 offered federal underwriting and direct loans to small banks called savings and loan associations. Sometimes called thrifts or mutual savings banks, many popped up around the country.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Prince Hall Masonic Temple

The two-story building at 2702 E. Fifth Ave. in Spokane was built in 1909 and served as a store and a pharmacy. When the last store closed in 1952, the building was briefly used as a church.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Lilac Festival Parade

Early white settlers planted Spokane’s first lilac bushes, which thrived in Eastern Washington’s dry environment. In 1912, Spokane Parks Director John W. Duncan planted more than 100 lilacs in Manito Park and many home gardeners followed suit.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Ridpath Hotel fire

The Ridpath Hotel was gutted by a nighttime fire Feb. 28, 1950. The Spokesman-Review called it one of the worst fires in Spokane’s history, but the 200 guests escaped and no one was injured.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Freedom Train

Caught between the victory of World War II and the specter of communism darkening the horizon, a group of people from advertising and business proposed a rolling exhibit about American history called the Freedom Train, calling it “a campaign to sell America to Americans.”
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Smith Funeral Home

Pioneer businessman Stephen M. Smith came to Spokane in 1889 after growing up in Pittsford, New York, where he went to the College of Embalming in New York City to learn the funeral business. When he got to Spokane, he started a funeral business, first as Smith & Luce Undertakers and Embalmers, then just Smith and Co. His first businesses were located in the Blalock and Bavaria buildings.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Eagle Block

A fire tore through downtown Spokane in August 1889 and destroyed virtually everything across 32 square blocks, including the four-story Eagle Block at Riverside Avenue and Stevens Street . A tenant, railroad builder Daniel Corbin grabbed business records while his chief engineer Edward J. Roberts scooped up drawings and surveys, barely escaping before the building was engulfed.

Then and Now: Sprague Way cutoff

The number of automobiles and commercial trucks in the United States almost doubled in the decade after World War II and Spokane saw its share of daily traffic jams in the postwar years. Eastbound traffic entered Spokane from the west on the Sunset Highway and flowed east onto Third Avenue. Eastbound traffic from the Spokane Valley came mostly on Sprague Avenue, which slowed in the business districts.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Early Spokane schools

A photo collage shows five of Spokane’s early schools around 1901 and each building reflects new acceptance of public education in a prosperous city with optimism about its future.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Consuelo Apartments

The Social Security Act of 1935 changed the care of older people and allowed entrepreneurial caregivers to make a living while doing it during the Great Depression.