Arial view of Spokane, 1959 (image L87-1.1133C-59 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture)
This file appears in: Neighborhoods Matter: The Impact of the I-90 Freeway on the East Central Neighborhood, an Oral History - Introduction
Taken from the west looking northeast, this image shows what Spokane looked like just a few years before I-90 construction started. The freeway would cut through the lower right quadrant of the image.
This file appears in: Neighborhoods Matter: The Impact of the I-90 Freeway on the East Central Neighborhood, an Oral History - Introduction
Neighborhoods Matter: The Impact of the I-90 Freeway on the East Central Neighborhood, an Oral History - Introduction
Spokane's East Central neighborhood is located just east of Division street and north of Sprague avenue, a stretch of mostly flat land that tapers into the Spokane valley as one moves east and winds up a rocky basalt hill as one goes south. It…