HUCKLEBERRIES: Capone's: Where everybody knows your name
Tom Capone explains how Capone’s Pub and Grill, 751 N. Fourth St., came to be in 1995.
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Tom and Teresa Capone had operated their Midtown sports pub for 30 years in 2021.
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High schooler Michael Koep, second from right, drummed with the band Vantage aboard the Dancewana in July 1985. From left, band members Wendy Adair, Mike Mitchell, Brian Nilges and Greg Nilges are also shown.
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Portraits of the first two Coeur d’Alene mayors, H.V. Scallon, right, and Boyd Hamilton, were found in an old book, “Inland Emperors" in 1985.
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Driver Bill Brow of Miss Exide was kissed by his wife, Faye, left, and Miss Coeur d’Alene XII Sue Wolden after winning the Diamond Cup in 1965.
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Coeur d’Alene Resort chefs Bill Steele and Jeff Potts celebrated Idaho’s centennial by baking a cake that weighed almost 200 pounds in 1990.
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John Friesz was surprised by his rapid rise from a backup quarterback for the Coeur d’Alene Viks to an NFL draft pick in 1990.
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The Aquanettes included, from left, Marsha LeFrancis, Nancy Larson, Jana Thomas, Susan Dunlop, Pam Stafford, Jean Secaur and Judy Branson in 1965.
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Dave and Brenda Oliveria celebrated their 50th anniversary June 21. A few years earlier, they posed with Huckleberry, their Beagle, at The Coeur d’Alene Resort. (No geraniums were harmed in shooting the photo.)
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It boiled down to Coeur d’Alene or Eugene, Ore.
Tired of working long hours in the Los Angeles hospitality business, Tom and Teresa Capone searched the country to find the right spot to open a bistro.
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