2. The Crescent didn’t fall prey to the 1889 fire, but it did move locations a few times before it ended up in the downtown building that currently houses Madeleine’s Cafe. The store’s seven floors and 101 departments spanned several blocks, but Freder-
ick & Nelson bought the department store in 1988 and the Crescent faded into distant shopping memory. 3. When the owners of Boo Radley’s, Andy and Kris Dinnison, were brainstorming a name for their shop, they chose Boo Radley from “To Kill a Mockingbird” to fit their “book nut” personalities. They thought that like Harper Lee’s character, their store was weird, but not necessarily in a bad way. When the Dinnisons opened Atticus, Andy tried to steer away from the “To Kill a Mockingbird” theme, but the name Atticus was voted in by popular demand. 4. Bob Overjorde worked for Harry Winston, who carried the Hope Diamond around the world to be shown in exhibitions. Winston donated the blue 45.52-carat diamond in 1958 to the Smithsonian Institution, where it remains on display today. 5. Sam Huppin opened his store as a small tailor shop. When Sam’s sons took over Huppin’s in 1922, they made the store into a pawnbroker and also sold military uniform insignia, men’s clothing and luggage. In the ’50s, a third-generation Huppin added cameras, radios and stereo equipment to the stock. In the ’70s, Huppin’s completely moved away from the pawn business and sold only electronics. 6. Each meter had a one hour time limit that cost a nickel. You could also plug the meter with pennies — one penny for every 12 minutes (doesn’t that sound nice!). But not everyone was pleased with the new meters. Vandals smashed a few of the meters and several had sticky syrup poured
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over them. Some store owners also said customers became more jittery and demanding, fearing their meters would run out if customer service moved slowly.
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ONT. FROM PAGE 171 1. The Pend Oreille River is 130 miles long. The river originates from Lake Pend Oreille in the Idaho Panhandle and flows northwesterly until it joins the Columbia River in southeastern British Columbia. Other north-flowing rivers in the United States include Oregon’s Deschutes River and Wisconsin’s Fox River. 2. The first Bloomsday shirt features a runner carrying a torch in front of the Riverfront Park clock tower. More than 1,000 runners participated in the inaugural Bloomsday Run, which was billed “Run With the Stars” in posters announcing the event. Olympic gold and silver medalist Frank Shorter crossed the line first, followed by Herm Atkins of Seattle and founder Don Kardong. 3. Tommy Lasorda became the Dodgers’ AAA Pacific Coast League manager in 1969 with the Spokane Indians and remained in the position when the Dodgers switched their AAA farm club to the Albuquerque Dukes in 1972. 4. John Stockton spent his 19-year NBA career with the Utah Jazz after graduating from Gonzaga University. Along with being a Hall of Famer, he was an original member of the “Dream Team,” holds NBA records for assists and steals, and won Olympic gold medals. 5. By the end of the 2008-09 season, 97.8 inches had fallen on Spokane. It broke the previous record of 93.5 inches that fell in the 1949-50 season. The year 2008 saw two record snowstorms come through town, one in January, the other in December. Those two storms combined would have broken all kinds of records if it not for the fact that climatologically, those two months fell in two different seasons. 6. The 2009 Hoopfest tournament was certified by the Guinness Book of World Records as the largest 3-on-3 street basketball tournament in the world. The head count that
year totaled 26,656 players on 6,725 teams. Hoopfest first began shutting down the streets of downtown for two days of basketball in 1990. The first Hoopfest totaled 2,009 players on 512 teams; it now tends to exceed 27,000 players each year. 7. Spokane’s Expo ’74 was the first World’s Fair with an environmental theme, titled “Celebrating a Fresh, New Environment.” It may not have saved the world’s ecosystems, but Spokane got a cleaner river and Riverfront Park in return.
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CONT. FROM PAGE 195 1. The Garbage Goat was designed by Catholic nun Sister Paula Turnbull for Expo ’74 as a recycling and environmental statement. The beloved corten steel sculpture lives in Riverfront Park near the Looff Carrousel. The goat eats small pieces of trash with the aid of its vacuum digestive system.
music. He headed to Los Angeles and went on to sell more than half a billion records and become one the country’s most beloved crooners. Music had always been part of his family’s household growing up. In fact, his father bought one of the first phonographs in Spokane. 5. KHQ radio started in Seattle in 1922, but was moved to Spokane, where it made its inaugural broadcast on October 30, 1925. The first broadcast began at 8 pm with elaborate dedication ceremonies and groups performing musical numbers and vaudeville continued on next page
2. Her father was in the military; after Hilary Swank was born in Lincoln, Neb., her dad was stationed in Spokane when she was 3 years old. After four years in Spokane, Swank’s dad was sent to Bellingham, Wash., where Swank grew up in a trailer park near Lake Samish. Her two Oscars are for her performances in Boys Don’t Cry and Million Dollar Baby. 3. The Internet sex scandal surrounding Mayor Jim West inspired Speech & Debate. Like Karam’s play columbinus, Speech & Debate merges fact and fiction to examine adolescent culture. 4. Crosby, who grew up in Spokane, attended Gonzaga University’s law school, but left two months before graduating to pursue
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