Arial View of I-90 Freeway Construction, 1967

ID: 5758 ~ Source: Courtesy of Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Joel E. Ferris Research Archives. Photographer: Charles Libby. Item number: L87-1.1678-67
This file appears in: Redlinging's Lingering Shadows
Arial View of I-90 Freeway Construction, 1967

Many houses were torn down for the construction of I-90 , including in East Central Spokane.

This file appears in: Redlinging's Lingering Shadows

By Julianna Amante
Red, Yellow, Green, and Blue. From the 1930s to the 1960s in Spokane, these colors dictated whether you could obtain an insured mortgage on a home. HOLC maps, or Redlining maps, were color-coded maps that separated neighborhoods by race, housing…