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Then and Now: Spokane Amateur Athletic Club (opens the original)
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Spokane was booming in the 1890s. The city was rebuilding from the 1889 fire and the population was growing rapidly. Clubs and fraternal organizations were bursting at the seams, weaving the social fabric of the recovering city. The Spokane Amateur Athletic Club organized in 1891 with billiards and bowling and gym facilities for fitness. Outdoor sports, like tennis, track and cycling, were added as space became available. Gonzaga’s first football game was a 4-4 tie against the SAAC team in 1892.
Then and Now: Brown Industries (opens the original)
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Spokane’s Brown Industries, started around 1889 as the Brown Brothers’ sheet metal business, grew into one of the nation’s largest manufacturers of buses, freight trailers and vans. The next generation, Thoburn C. Brown, born in 1907, and his older brother William, born in 1902, grew up around the shops, dreaming of building airplanes. In 1930, they rolled out Thoburn’s first design, an all-aluminum, high-wing plane called the Metalark. Legendary Spokane pilot Nick Mamer made the first flight. “
Then and Now: Newberry store opens (opens the original)
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The year 1950 was one of the busiest building years in Spokane history. Recent projects included the 13-story Ridpath tower, an expanded Spokane and Eastern Bank, a seven-story addition to the Crescent department store, a new VA hospital and Spokane Municipal Stadium, later renamed Joe Albi Stadium. But when North Korea attacked South Korea in June 1950 to start the Korean War, the federal government quickly returned to the war footing of World War II. The Defense Production Act passed by Congre
Then and Now: Tire Market (opens the original)
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The southeast corner of Monroe Street and Second Avenue was the center of the early auto industry in Spokane. Downtown car dealers, repair shops and parts houses proliferated as automobiles became ubiquitous in American life. The city directory shows the corner as Storage Battery Service, taken over by partners Robert L. Roger and William A. DeVries in 1917. The business moved after a year or two and the name changed to Inland Battery. DeVries, born in 1891, stayed in the automotive field as a s
Then and Now: Thornhill Funeral Home (opens the original)
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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. In 1935, that business was sold to pioneer funeral operator P.F. Thornhill, of Kellogg, and his son, Harold B. Thornhill, who was born around 1907. The younger Thornhill would oversee Thornhill Funeral Home until his death. Harold Thornhill started working in his father’s funeral business in high school and went to Uni
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