Making Way for Riverfront
This file appears in: Rediscovering the River: Expo '74 and Riverfront Park Tour
An interview with Dr. J. William Youngs of Eastern Washington University.
Video courtesy of Lee Nilsson
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…