Apple workers at Otis Orchards

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This file appears in: The Apple Boom and Otis Orchards

All manner of local Spokane folk flocked to be part of the apple boom, as seen here with Otis Orchards employees striking a pose.

Photo courtesy of Spokane Valley Heritage Museum.

This file appears in: The Apple Boom and Otis Orchards

By Thomas Kassa
In 1908, Spokane launched its first National Apple Show with high hopes of making the area a major fruit distribution center. The inland Northwest was emerging from a decade of rapid apple-tree planting, with schemes of irrigation claiming nearly…