This Air Force non-commissioned officer and his wife raised a large family in the East Central neighborhood at the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s (image L87-1.2245-61 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture).
This file appears in: Debbie Takami, Resident Since the 1960s
This file appears in: Debbie Takami, Resident Since the 1960s
Debbie Takami, Resident Since the 1960s
"The area where we grew up was a real neighborhood. Now it's just fast food restaurants and the freeway."
Debbie Takami is a life-long resident of Spokane. She grew up in the East Central neighborhood, and her story is typical of…