The stately Washington Water Power building, perched prominently above the Spokane River's waterfalls, was built in 1909 and put into service in 1910. It's still serving the city's utility company, housing a substation that distributes the power from the two hydroelectric dams downtown.

In the 1955 scene from Sprague Avenue and Post Street, there are several early 1900s brick buildings, some of which were cleared away in order to build the biggest bank building in Spokane.

Starting around 1915, a Christmas tree was often set up at the corner of Monroe and Riverside and used for public holiday celebrations. Since 1960, a live tree was planted and used for the events.

The two Paulsen buildings on the 400 block of West Riverside are named for August Paulsen, a Danish immigrant who who came to the U.S. as a teenage stowaway in the early 1890s.

The pair of pedestrian suspension bridges in Riverfront Park were some of the more fun landscape features of the world's fair in 1975. Recently, deterioration has closed access to bridges, but one has reopened and the city parks department is focused on repairing them.

Multiple train depots, several raised trestles and miles of track were removed from around the downtown area to

The namesake of Spokane's Howard Street, Oliver Otis Howard, led troops in the Civil War, founded Howard University and then led the 1877 campaign against rebellious bands of Nez Perce.

One of Spokane's longest running restaurants, Johnston's cafe/cafeteria/coffee shop, was located at 706 and 710 West Main Avenue for almost 50 years.

The Spokane Valley Fire Department began as a fire district that was approved by voters in 1940. The first station built for the district was at North Park Road and East Utah Avenue.

Cowley School, built in Peaceful Valley so small children wouldn't have to climb the 75-step staircase up to Riverside Avenue, closed in 1930.

The Cascade Building, later renamed the Simon Building, was built right after the great fire of 1889 and provided space for businesses starting over after the conflagration. Pioneer piano dealer Emil Simon bought the building at 911-915 West Riverside Avenue in 1910 and finished the upstairs as apartments.

For approximately 60 years, the city of Spokane disposed of refuse by burning it in an incinerator.

For several years after it first opened, the three-story 1911 Buffalo building was the center for ballroom dancing in Spokane.

The narrow building at 418 W. First Avenue in downtown Spokane was the first fire station in the city with professional firefighters stationed there.

The son of early Spokane saloonkeeper "Dutch Jake" Goetz put the family name on a new beer after Prohibition ended in 1933.

After serving in World War II, brothers Michael and Gus Cozza each had their own eponymous construction companies and built 2000 or more Spokane homes.

A 1927 concrete bridge is still in use down in Vinegar Flats, a semi-rural neighborhood along Latah Creek on Spokane's south side.

Brothers Dee and Guy Riegel came from Nebraska in 1910 and opened a Dodge dealership on the corner of South Adams Street and West First Avenue that lasted for several decades.