A Dutch Boy Paints store on East Sprague, 1951 (image L87-1.66943-51 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture)

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This file appears in: Violet Noble, Resident Since the 1940s

A Dutch Boy Paints store on East Sprague, 1951 (image L87-1.66943-51 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture)

Residents of East Central who used to travel down the hill to East Sprague to shop found themselves traveling up the hill to 29th street after I-90 was completed.

This file appears in: Violet Noble, Resident Since the 1940s

Violet Noble, Resident Since the 1940s

By Spokane Regional Health District's Neighborhoods Matter Program, & Frank Oesterheld

"We didn't like the things they did and they didn't like the things we did." Born in Meridian, Mississippi in 1927, Violet Noble came to the East Central neighborhood during the growth period of the 1940s. This was also a time…