Rutherford's Triple X Lunch Stand, 1953 (image L87-1.72789-53 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture)
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Lunch stands like this one were common along East Sprague, but were forced to close when I-90 funneled traffic away from the business district.
This file appears in: Jim Hanley, Resident Since 1942
Jim Hanley, Resident Since 1942
"It was just a nice little community, and then the freeway came through and bisected the thing so we ended up with two East Central neighborhoods."
Jim Hanley has lived in the East Central…