47 yrs together ❤. That's awesome! I was 7yo when my grandparents came over from lobby to treat my family to a day at expo 74. I was too young to realize what a world's fair is, but I'm glad I have blips of memories of spending all there... One of those memories being my piss aunt being frustrated & snotty twd me bc I couldn't quite comprehend there were ppl from all over the world there in my small-ish city. We called her piss aunt bc my aunt was only 2 & still in diapers when she became an aunt. (My grandparents had her when gma was 45. Catholics, you see). She was the 6th & last.

Very nice, sir. BTW, I remember all those performers and quite a few more from that era. You are nearing 50 years together now; Congratulations!

I was a policeman at EXPO '70 and met many many international artists. However, sorry but Osaka expo '70 was better than expo '74.

My Mom was an A&W attendant too!!

I was a couple months short of 12 when my mom and I drove up there from Southern California shortly after the fair opened.😀 My sixth grade teacher was gracious enough to give his okay for my absence but loaded me down with a ton of homework which was more than if I had gone to school, or maybe it just seemed that way. I had to keep a journal and do a presentation to the class when I got back and I got high praise from the teacher and an A for the journal. My mom passed away in 1999 but I'll never forget the good times we had and this trip of a lifetime that we took in 1974. 🙂

@@bruce2357 thanks much for sharing your wonderful memories, of that time. These stories, are golden threads of, the wonderful tapestry of our society. Best wishes

Mary Griffin That’s cool...Who was he?

@@philschroeder He's my wife's grandfather, actually. #jeananthonygreif

Priest Lake is were I learned to water ski. Our uncle had a cabin on the lake

You escaped! Most people get stuck in spokane forever. I'm still planning on getting out. You are right about all the issues in spokane. It always bugs me a little when people go on and on about how great spokane is. Notice, some of the best things about spokane are in Idaho. LOL

I have lived here 53 years and not once experienced any of this nonsense you left here 2 years ago,we have extremely mild winters with very little snow! We absolutely do not need to escape thunderstorms,nor is the crime rate unusually high. We have crime,but every city has crime!& we also have upgrades going on regularly downtow,and city wide. If you ask younger people they may say the don't like Spokane. Mostly because they are not old or wise enough to know better,they are a bit daft! The truth is people that leave Spokane often come back to start families, or retire. So don't let the pretend boogie man keep you away. Come visit,relax and enjoy.

BTW, it is also not true that Spokane has a non accepting intolerance. Again just nonsense,step out of the 70's and see for yourself.

Wow! What great memories. Thanks for watching!

Me too, though I was only 11 at the time. In the years after, Riverfront Park was a cheap date and a place we could take the bus downtown to just hang out and goof around.

Spokane would be an ideal place to hold an Olympics too. Lots of space to build just outside of the city. Do you think the powers that be would ever concede to such a proposal? I'm not holding my breath.

I had that little rectangle of canvas with the Expo insignia on it for years as well, until I lost it in a move or something. Glad you still have yours!

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Get rid of the Cowles & blighted business band, & we'll have the progress we want. Too many monstervatives, & the libtards are just as inflexible. Otherwise, this could be a paradise!

Shaded...you do not know what you are talking about.

@@slukky You can gentrify things all you want, but Sprague is still Sprague for instance... unless you want to replace all the hookers with high-class escorts and call girls to match the surroundings? I do agree, the change in arts/music scene is nice, but the railroads were important, especially when it comes to moving people and freight in an economical fashion that reduces pollution. You use the word "our" in that paragraph like you're one of us, like you're from around here, but your entire comment smacks of your attitude and your politics. You are not one of us. You tell people like Shaded Muse to get out? Most of us have slotted into an economic bracket around here in terms of employment and personal budget, and aren't loaded like the goddamn Cowles (the hidden hand that guides economic progress in the downtown core). YOU can afford to get out since you emigrated here from the East Coast, but instead you bastards invade the area after causing economic devastation to the previous region and then blame us for impeding your so-called progress. If we're that much of a nuisance to you , then how about you pack up your shit and take your politics with you? Those of us near enough to the mess refer to it as Spokanistan for a reason.

@@LGTheOneFreeMan Like you aren't all originally from the East, you pinwit. I had nothing to do w/ the demise of the Eastern economy. I live far more frugally than you do, I'll bet. The rails have fallen in importance since the '50s, but then, you wouldn't know that bc you're still stuck there, you shitty bastard you! And you're right; I can leave anytime bc this is America & we have freedom of mobility. Only morons who can't think for themselves see themselves as stuck anywhere. Don't like it here? Move. Really simple, simpleton. We sure don't need your negativity around here. I like this area, so get used to the idea of seeing me champion the best of it. Or leave. Good riddance.

So dose Seattle

Constantly tearing down beautiful, unique old Victorian buildings to erect graceless modernist monstrosities, just makes a city look blander and blander, more and more homogenized, even though they're trying to "stand out" and look like a "world class" city. City leaders seem to me to be busy bodies with mediocre tastes, constantly disrupting people's lives and businesses, and wasting millions of dollars, with their constant, pointless "urban renewal". The new buildings being built in Spokane today are boxy, tacky, charmless and monotonously identical. I've never seen corrugated metal used as siding before. The rest looks like plastic and particle board. I know buildings were torn down to put it up, but it's ironic and sad that they tore down the unique old IMax. I attended the fair from rural Western Washington, and that was my favorite memory of it, with its huge screen, that gave the illusion of flight. If you're going to tear an old building down, put up something of equal or better quality. I guess its pointless to complain about it. With today's "leadership", I'm resigned to the probability that Spokane is just going to get shabbier and shabbier, uglier and uglier....

wow 😳

What did they do..when did they arrive?

Lol what the hell you talking about 😂😂😅