The Auditorium Theater, completed in 1890, gave early Spokane a taste of highbrow entertainment.

The Desert Saharan Motor Lodge followed a historic hotel and the site is now a luxury hotel tower.

The Exposition Building was built in 1890 to host the Northwestern Industrial Exposition of Spokane Falls.

J.L. Phelps, who started working as a photographer in Spokane in 1893, was the city's favorite photographer of babies and children for almost 40 years.

The Bodie Block, now called the 1889 Building, is one of the oldest in Downtown Spokane, having been erected right after the 1889 great fire that leveled downtown Spokane.

The Lindelle Block, constructed in 1890, was financed by Lindon W. Bates, an engineer who worked for railroads in the 1880s an 1890s, but went on to worldwide fame for his dredging and waterways projects in America, Europe and Asia.

Coeur d'Alene Park, in the center of Browne's Addition, was Spokane's first official park. In Spokane's early days, before other parks were added, it was the site of many social and civic events.

The Havana Block, built around 1903 on the north side of the 500 block of Front Avenue, which is now Spokane Falls Boulevard, housed business and a rooming house until it was torn down to make way for the new Union Station and its elevated track system.

Frederick Blackwell's Coeur d'Alene and Spokane Railroad, which began rolling in 1903, moved mail, agricultural products and people through Spokane Valley, adding new life to the tiny depots along the way.

The pool at Liberty Park, east of downtown Spokane, was built in 1920 and refurbished several times. The pool, for a variety of reasons, was notoriously cold and lacked amenities like plentiful parking, extra seating and picnic tables.

The Great Northern freight office sat along the Spokane River, mostly out of sight from the street for 70 years and was demolished for Expo '74.

Prohibition, instituted in 1920, put a lot of brewers and distillers out of business, including Spokane brewmaster Bernhardt Schade.

Like many neighborhoods, businesses gathered along Garland Avenue to serve a growing suburban population.

Jay Graves and his partners in the streetcar and railroad business built the 1908 Nine Mile Dam on the Spokane River.

The Excelsior Youth Center on North Indian Trail Road has been continuing the work of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd, who opened the campus in 1960.

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.