Orange Bower Bar, c. 1915

ID: 3286
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As Spokane expanded and established itself as a premier Inland Northwest destination, high end bars such as the Davenport Hotel's Orange Bower Bar, opened to serve the needs of the wealthy men in town on business.

Image L84-207.4.78 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture

This file appears in: From Temperance to Microbrews

By The Spokane Historical team
Temperance activist Carrie Nation of Kansas was famous for smashing saloons with a hatchet in the days before Prohibition. Before Nation's 1910 visit to Spokane, the mayor ordered saloon-goers to leave town. Excess consumption and its impact on…