Old Spokane Riverfront
This file appears in: Rediscovering the River
Throughout the 1960's and early 70's the riverfront was largely covered by railroad tracks making the river barely visible.
Washington State Archives, Digital.
This file appears in: Rediscovering the River
Rediscovering the River
How did Spokane get a hundred-acre park right in the middle of downtown? Riverfront Park was once a tangled mess of railroad tresses and industrial overgrowth. During the 1960s it was hard to even tell that a river flowed through the city because it…