HUCKLEBERRIES: Steering into — then away — from the skid
The new pit area for hydroplane races is shown from the top of the North Shore Resort Hotel, looking north, in 1965. Twenty years later, Coeur d’Alene residents would split over a plan to restore the races.
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Owner Bernie Little prepares to test Miss Budweiser on Lake Coeur d’Alene in 1965. In 1985, Little floated the idea of restoring hydroplane races.
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The Lakeside Hotel, later named after owner H.L. Bancroft, was located at the southeast corner of Second and Lakeside.
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Deanna Sylte and New Yorker David Lucas married on the Sylte family ranch in Rathdrum in 1965.
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Sixteen-year-old Gary Schneidmiller exhibits his Black Angus, Shady Sam, at the county fair in 1965.
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Bob Templin, second from left, breaks ground for Templin’s Resort in Post Falls in 1985. Pictured from left: Resort manager Jim Dobson, Templin, Mary Templin, Post Falls Mayor Kent Helmer, chamber president Linda Judd and Gary Swartout of Bancshares Mortgage Co.
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Football players Mike Bessey and Cory Tanner load snacks into their helmets during a sampling session at Lake City High in 1995.
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Art Manley eats a huckleberry pie during a fundraiser in 1980.
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Actor Patty Duke reaches for freshly turned dirt at a groundbreaking ceremony for a Coeur d’Alene Homes addition in 2005.
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Jim Fromm was for hydroplane racing before he was against it.
The late Coeur d’Alene mayor is recalled for casting a tie-breaking vote 40 years ago that vanquished hydroplanes from Lake Coeur d’Alene for decades.
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