The Grotto Building, just around the corner on Pacific, was home to many favorite hangouts for the Spokane punk scene.

ID: 4485 ~ Source: Image courtesy of Spokane Historic Preservation Office.
This file appears in: Punk Rock Comes to Spokane
This file appears in: Punk Rock Comes to Spokane

By Charlie Byers
Was Spokane too much of a backwater for punk rock? Not if musicians like Jan Gregor or Brad Muller had anything to say about it. Spokane’s relative isolation in the early 80s made the “do it yourself” spirit of punk a necessity--local bar owners had…