Tue., Nov. 3, 2015, 8:50 a.m.
John T. Little, a hardware and sporting goods dealer, left his mark on Spokane.
Fri., Oct. 30, 2015, 3:34 p.m.
John T. Little, a Kansan who adopted Spokane in 1902, opened a hardware store that also sold sporting goods.
Mon., Oct. 26, 2015, 7:27 a.m.
Attentive readers of the Then and Now column will notice that this week's photo is a recropping of one that ran several years ago in this space.This photo, circa 1888, shows the city's first waterworks, perched on the southwest corner of Canada Island, which was then called Crystal Island, possibly named after the Crystal Laundry which sat nearby.
Fri., Oct. 23, 2015, 2:42 p.m.
The first city water system was on Canada Island in a modest brick structure clinging to the side of the basalt bank. It was built a year before the great fire of 1889 and it was critical to the outcome of that terrible conflagration.
Mon., Oct. 12, 2015, 11:54 a.m.
The modest building at 124 S. Jefferson has been an ice plant since 1969, but before that it was a meat wholesale facility since 1911.
Thu., Oct. 8, 2015, 11:11 p.m.
The building housing the Pacific Pak Ice plant was built in 1911 as a meat packing facility. Although the meat packing is gone, the ice factory still uses some of the original refrigeration equipment for ice storage.
Tue., Oct. 6, 2015, 2:03 p.m.
Bridges carrying cars and railroads are still critical to Spokane transportation.
Mon., Oct. 5, 2015, 7:36 a.m.
Ski-Mor was in the Dishman Hills in he 1930s and 1940s.
Thu., Sept. 24, 2015, 9:01 p.m.
Dishman, except for some business and park names, is largely forgotten as a significant part of Spokane Valley. It is named for Addison and Wilton Dishman.
Fri., Sept. 18, 2015, 1:27 p.m.
Do you remember the Woolworths store in River Park Square?
Wed., Sept. 16, 2015, 3:39 p.m.
This set of stairs is somewhere in Spokane, well-traveled by those on foot.
Mon., Sept. 14, 2015, 12:52 p.m.
The Milwaukee Freight Office stood on Trent Ave. through the boom years of the rail industry, but also the inevitable decline.
Fri., Sept. 11, 2015, 2:48 p.m.
The Milwaukee Road was the common name for the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad.
Mon., Sept. 7, 2015, 9:33 a.m.
Ed Wraight started a discount store in Spokane around 1930 and survived the difficult years of the Great Depression.
Thu., Sept. 3, 2015, 6:31 p.m.
The thrifty-minded shopper in early Spokane saw the rise of the five-and-dime store.
Tue., Aug. 25, 2015, 4:36 p.m.
Mon., Aug. 24, 2015, 9:58 a.m.
John Doran opened a car dealership around 1914, advertising Packards and Studebakers. But for most of his 13 years in business he sold Hudsons, a viable alternative to the popular Ford Model T.
Thu., Aug. 20, 2015, 11:19 a.m.
Do you remember the Hudson Essex, Terraplane or Wasp? In 1929, the Hudson was the third largest auto manufacturer behind Ford and Chevrolet.
Mon., Aug. 10, 2015, 6:24 p.m.
A family of second generation Norwegian Americans ran a cafe in the Perry District in the 1940s.
Mon., Aug. 10, 2015, 10:01 a.m.
Let's make this viral: "Yes, You Can in Spokane"
Mon., Aug. 10, 2015, 9:54 a.m.
On the southwest corner of Stevens and Front, there was Tennessee House.
Wed., July 22, 2015, 9:17 a.m.
Do you remember when Montana crude was refined into gas in Hillyard?
Mon., July 20, 2015, 10:06 a.m.
The Whitten Block was built by L.B. Whitten, one of Spokane's earliest entrepreneurs. He died in 1927. But his family's story takes a sad turn with mental illness and a murder.
Tue., July 14, 2015, 2:50 p.m.
Check out this week's Then and Now about the first Harley Davidson dealership in Spokane.
Tue., July 14, 2015, 11:08 a.m.
The Whitten Block is named after early businessman L.B. Whitten, who moved to the Northwest from Virginia in a mule-drawn wagon. He showed up in Spokane in 1880.