Expo Construction

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This file appears in: Rediscovering the River

Here we see the pavilions being constructed on Havermale Island for the fair. Most of the structures were removed after the fair ended, however the U.S. and Washington State pavilions remain as Riverfront Park attractions to this day.

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture

This file appears in: Rediscovering the River

By Cory Carpenter
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…