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Spokane Straight Cache

Childhood seems to screw with everyone; mine just chose an interesting route.  Treasure Island, Nancy Drew, Jupiter Jones and every choose-your-own-adventure book grabbed my imagination in a chokehold.  So many treasures and puzzles that needed solving. I will never admit to actually trying to create treasure hunts for myself (with the plan to just forget [...]

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In Case you Missed it: Spokane Vintage Warehouse

Spokane Vintage Warehouse has been open for a while, it has just stayed nicely hidden behind the Cricket store on Riverside and Stone just off of East Sprague. For the relatively small size of the store, it really is a warehouse. Every corner is filled with weird Spokane memorabilia, oversized letters and an awesome collection of [...]

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Byrd Brainstorm Redux

I talked a while back about the upcoming demolition of the historic Jensen-Byrd building in the University District.  And a fine tragedy it would be to lose this beast. But Campus Advantage, the purchaser of Byrd, will have to jump through some hoops in order for this all to work. And Councilman Jon Snyder recently [...]

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Byrd Brainstorm

(Feature image: Danny Dinges.) The Jensen-Byrd building, which towers above the University District, is getting the axe. A Texas company, Campus Advantage, purchased it to the tune almost $3 million and plans to tear it down next summer to build dorms for WSU’s Riverpoint campus students. I’m not even sure how to start in on what [...]

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Spokane… Crossroads of Fashion

The Spokesman-Review circa 1973 Spokane was once fashionable it seems. This old image came from Spokane Vintage Warehouse. Make sure to make it down there to scope all of their Spokane memorabila plus a bunch of other weird-awesome shit. 2226 E. Riverside ave. in kind of a weird spot behind the Cricket Store on E. [...]

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