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Feedback: What show did you see in the Spokane Coliseum?

Until ’95, Coliseum rocked their world

Kurt Cobain and Nirvana brought grunge to the Spokane Coliseum on Jan. 6, 1994. Three months and two days later, Cobain was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Seattle home. (Dan Pelle)

We asked our Facebook friends what events they recall attending in the Spokane Coliseum, which was replaced in 1995 with the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena. Here’s a sampling of the 200-plus responses. Join the conversation on The Spokesman-Review Facebook page.

Becky Houck Sears

Saw the Monkees there and a bunch of other great shows.

Sandy Graf

Nirvana…1994

Anna Rivas

Many concerts (Beach Boys, Chad and Jeremy, Ike and Tina Turner Review, Three Dog Night, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Jimi Hendrix, America, etc.), hockey games, high school basketball, Gymkhana, my high school graduation.

Sherrie Leavelle

Hockey games, concerts, North Central High School’s big multiyear reunion, firemen’s ball, and much more. Great picture and memories.

Penni Englert

1990 Goodwill Games

Sue Brassfield Jensen

Ricky Nelson, way back approximately 1958 or so.

Michael Stout

Basketball games, ice skating show, Fabian, high school graduation.

Curtis Junglen

Pantera! – and Kiss years ago.

Jennifer Denton

Lipizzaner horses circa 1991– beat that obscurity.

Bobbi Stueckle

Grama took us kids to the circus! All the snacks were 25 cents each!

Shannon Lane

My first concert. 5th grade. Bryan Adams “Summer of ’69” tour.

Kathy Christofferson

My high school graduation, The Carpenters in concert, the Brady Bunch in concert, travel-logs with my mom.

Lori Rukes

Wow I went to my first concert there I think it was Tom Jones? Went to the hockey games with my dad back when they were the Jets and the Flyers … I was just a little girl. I just went because my grandma always brought candy.

Heather Whitehall-Thompson

I remember my last high school basketball game at The Boone Street Barn in 1995. I can’t say that I miss it, but it brings back a lot of memories from my childhood.

Karen Lunden Lewis

The Jets! Tom Hodges! State B basketball, John Denver, Pat Benatar, Huey Lewis and the News, more hockey, circus, Ice Capades, I have been there a few times!

Sam Weber

A LOT of Spokane Chiefs Hockey Club games. Saw President Reagan speak there in 1988.

Michele Halsted

Loverboy and INXS twice in high school.

Jose Sanchez

My mom would take me to see the Harlem Globetrotters for my birthday from ’87-’90.

Corey Douglas

Soundgarden