The manmade stream that runs through Riverfront Park was designed by architect Thomas Adkison to carry river water and visually represent that Riverfront Park sits on an island.

The naval boot camp on the shores of Lake Pend Oreille was only open for 30 months and trained 293,000 recruits.

As Expo '74 plans came together, a group of Spokane rail fans tried to save the downtown train stations.

The hotel that once stood on the north end of the Monroe Street Bridge was the Electric Hotel, owned by the Washington Water Power Company, and later renamed the Hamlin Hotel. The photos are from around 1910 and 2021.

In June of 1948, President Harry Truman made a quick stop in Spokane.

There were one-story storefronts wrapping around the northeast corner of the intersection of Bernard Street and Riverside Avenue, and the Little Brick Corner tavern was there from the 1920s until the buildings were demolished to build a new Old National Bank branch.

The park left behind by Expo '74 wasn't dedicated until 1978 because it took some time to complete the transformation from world's fair to urban park.

The 1908 Maplehurst Apartments, at Fourth Avenue and Maple Street, were built by one of Spokane's first physicians, Thomas L. Catterson.

The 1930 Sears, Roebuck and Co. store at 907 W. Main Ave. became the Spokane Public Library in the early 1960s, then was torn down in 1992 to clear the way for the new library. The 1994 building is currently being renovated again with a $77 million library bond passed by voters in 2018.

New Year’s Eve in Spokane was a little more festive after the Davenport Hotel opened in September 1914. It was the culmination of many years of planning by restaurateur Louis Davenport. Advertisements for the new hotel offered a full holiday dinner for $2 a plate on New Year’s Eve, and there would be dancing to the Davenport orchestra with vocalist Gladys Vogel. The Pantages Theater and others offered vaudeville performances, and ballrooms offered dancing till midnight.

The Pfister Bowling and Billiards sat next to Louis Davenport's restaurant on Sprague Ave. before the construction of the Davenport Hotel.

People gather around Davenport's Restaurant, hoping for a glimpse of the visiting celebrity during President Taft's visit to Spokane Sept. 28, 1909. The Davenport hotel was not yet built. Picture looks west on Sprague.

In 2004, the McCarthey Athletic Center replaced the Charlotte Y. Martin Centre as the home for the Gonzaga Bulldogs. The arena seats 6, 000.

Long before the war on drugs, there was Prohibition, starting in 1920. Depending on who’s telling the story, serving liquor in Spokane was either ubiquitous and hardly questioned, or the law was enforced with a vengeance.

Before 1910, automobiles were rare but adventurous drivers already were looking for ways to cross Washington state. Except for train travel, heading east from Seattle was a perilous journey.

Louis Ziegler faced many fiery trials. He arrived in the United States from Germany in 1852 at age 15 and became a wagon maker in Kentucky. He opened his own wagon shop in Chenoa, Illinois, in 1863 and did well until a massive fire claimed his buildings in 1870.

James P. McGoldrick, born in 1859, started in the timber business in Minnesota. Seeing that most of the lumber he sold came from the Northwest, he moved to Spokane in 1906 and bought a mill south of Gonzaga College, east of downtown Spokane. The McGoldrick Lumber Co. eventually covered 60 acres along the Spokane River. Logs were stored on the Spokane River and milled lumber was dried in piles outdoors. The company added timber holdings around the region and the mill became one of Spokane’s largest employers.