Then and now: Riverfront Park South Channel
The preparations for Expo ’74 and landscaping for the new Riverfront Park swept away the train tracks, a former lumber yard and the long history of how the south channel of the Spokane River was used by the pioneers and early residents of Spokane. Since 1921, the river disappears into the penstocks of the Upper Falls power plant in Riverfront Park, which is undergoing a second redesign, and which has added the ice ribbon, a new Howard Street Bridge, a new carousel building and other improvements.
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1977 – The preparations for Expo ’74 and landscaping for the new Riverfront Park swept away the train tracks, a former lumber yard and the long history of how the south channel of the Spokane River was used by the pioneers and early residents of Spokane. Since 1921, the river disappears into the penstocks of the Upper Falls power plant in Riverfront Park.
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2019 – Riverfront Park, now undergoing its second redesign, has paved over clues as to how the pioneers used the south channel of the Spokane River, which disappears into the penstocks of the Upper Falls power plant, shown Friday, Sept. 13, 2019. The redesign has added the skate ribbon, a new Howard Street Bridge, a new carousel enclosure, a refurbished pavilion and many landscaping touches throughout the park.
Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
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