In the late 1920s, George and Ernest Pappas started the New York Coney Island Cafe at 336 W. Riverside.

The U.S. Pavilion and the Washington State Pavilion are often heralded as the two landmark buildings preserved after Expo ’74 shut down almost 50 years ago. Less heralded was a modest wooden shelter that began as the American Forest Pavilion.

The old 1910 greenhouse was rebuilt in the early 1970s and named for Dr. David W. Gaiser, a longtime parks benefactor.

Long before the south side of Gonzaga University’s campus became home of the McCarthey Athletic Center, a soccer field, the law school building and baseball field complex, it was the site of McGoldrick Lumber for more than 40 years in the first half of the 20th century.

The planners of a new Union Depot in downtown Spokane needed a favor in 1909: Can we buy City Hall?

Edward Herbert Jamieson was a Spokane businessman who survived the massive fire of 1889. He was an attorney who settled in Spokane in 1882. He founded Spokane Abstract Co. and built a two-story brick building on the southwest corner of Riverside and Wall.

You have to be "of a certain age" to remember riding across the Spokane River on the Howard Street Bridge because it became pedestrian-only for Expo '74.

Spokanites hadn't seen anything like the ornate Hall of Doges when it was completed by Cutter in 1904.

J.J. Newberries was one of Spokane's favorite and longest lasting five-and-dime stores in Spokane.

The Fox Theater, built in 1931, was Spokane's first "movie palace" featuring 2300 seats, in an art deco interior with a state of the art sound system.

George Keith March was born in Litchfield, Minnesota, around 1868 and was raised in Pierre, South Dakota, where he started in the grocery business and the cattle business. In 1900 he moved to Winnipeg, Canada, and in 1912, he moved to Spokane. He became a partner in the March-Strickle car dealership and was on the board of the Old National Bank.

First Avenue and Post Street had hotels on three of the four corners.

The stately Washington Water Power building, perched prominently above the Spokane River's waterfalls, was built in 1909 and put into service in 1910. It's still serving the city's utility company, housing a substation that distributes the power from the two hydroelectric dams downtown.

In the 1955 scene from Sprague Avenue and Post Street, there are several early 1900s brick buildings, some of which were cleared away in order to build the biggest bank building in Spokane.

Starting around 1915, a Christmas tree was often set up at the corner of Monroe and Riverside and used for public holiday celebrations. Since 1960, a live tree was planted and used for the events.

The two Paulsen buildings on the 400 block of West Riverside are named for August Paulsen, a Danish immigrant who who came to the U.S. as a teenage stowaway in the early 1890s.

The pair of pedestrian suspension bridges in Riverfront Park were some of the more fun landscape features of the world's fair in 1975. Recently, deterioration has closed access to bridges, but one has reopened and the city parks department is focused on repairing them.

Multiple train depots, several raised trestles and miles of track were removed from around the downtown area to