HUCKLEBERRIES: From the Golden State to the Gem State
In September 1990, a Coeur d’Alene Press cutline said: “More and more Californians are moving north and replacing their license plates.”
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Ron Edinger, shown umpiring a softball game in 1985, is an example of an ex-Californian who was loved in this town. He served as a Coeur d'Alene mayor or council member for a record 50 years.
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Melody Cossey hands her newborn girl, Taylor, to Rathdrum officer Tomi McLean in 1995.
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One-thousand four hundred fans link hands on Tubbs Hill in 2000.
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The old Lake City General Hospital is shown in the 1960s.
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Evel Knievel and wife Krystal prepare to leave the old Beachouse lot to ride around Lake Coeur d’Alene in 2000.
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Tony Riggs and his cousin, Michaela Cramer, displays a 4-pound pine cone in 1995.
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The indomitable Lois Land-Albrecht mugs for the camera with her rogue dog, Bandito, in the early 1980s.
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Judy Meyer got hugged after she and her husband, Steve, right, donated $1 million to the North Idaho College Foundation.
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I didn’t know there was a subtle Northwest bias against ex-Californians until I became one.
It first surfaced during the 1977 Fourth of July weekend in Kalispell, Mont., as my wife and I moved into a small rental house, owned by Publisher C. Patrick King of The Daily Inter Lake.
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