HUCKLEBERRIES: Road rage
Local police in riot gear move in to quell 1999 Car d’Lane disturbance.
Photo courtesy of the Coeur d'Alene Press archives
Tootie James stands in the ditch where he rescued a buried man. Betty Leonard, top left, and her mother, Inga Lien, helped in the rescue.
A fuel problem thwarted a test run for U.S. West Cellular.
Steve Badraun built the garden center that now houses the Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy.
Chamber manager Sandy Emerson snips City Administrator Gene McAdams’s tie.
Hidden Valley residents hanged in effigy two county commissioners.
Ed Pommerening helped reforest Kellogg’s hillsides.
Among those dressing up for 1964 Forestry Festival Week were, from left, clerk’s office employees Judith Kugler, Margaret Shepperd, Larry Thorsness, Marguerite Tomblin and Jeanne Loomer.
Carved from the historic Mullan Tree, a giant mallet, billed as the world’s largest gavel, was unveiled at a 1964 Forestry Festival Week lunch. Joining in the hilarity were, from left, 1964 Woodsman of the Year Nick Ormonde, Miss Coeur d’Alene X Janice Compton and featured speaker Dr. Howard Alden of the University of Idaho.
The Coeur d’Alene Press headline read: “Riot in downtown Coeur d’Alene.”
But former Coeur d’Alene police chief Dave Scates rates the fracas that broke out during the 1999 Car d’Lane vintage car event as less than that — more like “a large disturbance.”
Said Dave: “We had a large crowd of unruly people, mostly between the ages of 18 and 25. There were some arrests. But little property damage. And few people got hurt.”
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