Jesse Tinsley

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The federal government began funding roads as early as 1916, with states providing most of the funding. Standards for road design varied widely and many long highways were only two lanes wide. But the Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration led the proposal to create a nationwide system of limited access, multi-lane highways to promote commerce and for national defense. This became the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. The northern East-West highway, Interstate 90, would connect Seattle to Boston.

Lorenzo L. True was born around 1844 and grew up in Pennsylvania. He and his wife arrived in Spokane in 1899, and he began working in the petroleum supply business. He founded True’s Oil Company around 1900, focusing on sourcing and delivering heating oil before moving to fuels for internal combustion engines.

The Trade Winds Motel opened on Third Avenue in 1962, coinciding with the popularity of South Seas -themed kitsch and a boom in motel building around Spokane.

The Dishman Theater opened in October 1938 with a capacity of 516. The opening night film was “Having Wonderful Time” and starred Ginger Rogers and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

Spokane had an early mass transit system that was fueled by hydroelectric power and multiple streetcar services, going back to 1887.

Spokane Chronicle business writer Frank Bartel wrote in January of 1973 that visitors to Expo ’74 “will get a very close look at the seamier side of Spokane.”

Although it took hundreds of architects, engineers, designers and builders to create Expo ’74, the artistic vision of artist Harold Balazs was everywhere at the world’s fair.

The stately five-story building, with a soaring roofline, on the northeast corner of Riverside Avenue and Washington Street has had several different names through the 20th century.