Spokane Unlimited: Legacy
This file appears in: Rediscovering the River: Expo '74 and Riverfront Park Tour
Photos provided by Cory Carpenter, the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, and the Washington State Archives Digital Archives
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…