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Spokane, Washington  Est. May 19, 1883

Starting things off on quite a funny note

Slice-meister Paul Turner is taking some time off this month, but don’t despair: In his absence, we’re rerunning some of the tastier tidbits from this date in Slice history. Today’s sampling:

FROM 2006:

Confusion at first sight: Last week marked the anniversary of a 1955 blind date engineered by mutual friends of a single mother of three and a divorced father of two.

When the gentleman stepped up to the front porch of his date’s modest Spokane bungalow, he heard piano notes wafting through the summer air. Looking through the screen door, he saw her at the piano.

He knocked. She got up and crossed the room. Then he uttered the words that would live on in family lore and more than 50 years of happy marriage.

“Hi, I’m Martha,” he said. “You must be John.”

FROM 2000:

•New headings in the hot-off-the-presses Spokane Qwest Dex Yellow Pages:

“Video Tapes, Discs & DVD’s – Rental & Sales,” “Laser Vision Correction,” “Scrap Books,” “Virtual Reality,” “Square Dance Apparel,” “Sleigh Rides”

•New headings to be found in the Yellow Pages (fall, 2004):

“Facial Metals Extraction Tools – Retail,” “Tattoo Impulse Counseling,” “Porn Site Amnesia Therapy,” “Cell Phoner Dart Guns & Miscellaneous Road Rage Supplies,” “Unnecessary Compact Electronic Gadgetry,” “Implants Apparel”

FROM 1994:

Today’s Slice question: If you were a software genius creating an interactive “Virtual Spokane” program, in what ways would you improve on the real thing?