Old Spokane Riverfront
This file appears in: Rediscovering the River: Expo '74 and Riverfront Park Tour
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: Expo '74 and Riverfront Park Tour
Rediscovering the River: Expo '74 and Riverfront Park Tour
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…