This brochure describes some of the landmarks and sights in Spokane which, when the brochure came out, had a population of about 110,000 people (it is double that today). One of the landmarks is the Davenport Hotel, “one of the famous hostelries in America.” I’ve been fortunate enough to stay there and I have to say it is still one of the finest hotels in the country, easily the equal or superior of the Waldorf Astoria and similar five-star hotels.
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The map accompanying the brochure makes it clear just how downtown Spokane was dominated and criss-crossed by railroads: GN, NP, OR&N, CM&StP, SP&S, and at least two more, all routed into one of three train stations. Most of these were rerouted away from downtown for the city’s Expo ’74.
Curiously, Union Station — which hosted UP, Milwaukee, and Spokane International — is called “CM&StP Depot.” This is probably because that railroad ran the longest-distance trains into that station. The brochure has no specific indications of dates, but it is almost certainly from the same year as yesterday’s, which was either 1924 or 1925.