Collapse becomes ad
Despite warnings to stay away, two people view the gap created when a section of the old Spokane Street bridge at Post Falls fell in 1971.
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Sheriff’s Deputy Joe Daley surveys debris from the collapse of the Spokane Street bridge in 1971.
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In 2011, Harry Button’s widow, Mary, poses with the display case holding the flashlight her late husband used to alert rescuers.
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Allen Chaffin.
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George Maitlin, 91, poses with the board he was awarded at the 1996 Idaho Cribbage Championships in Coeur d’Alene.
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Parks Director Doug Eastwood poses in front of the Civil War Veteran’s Statue at Forest Cemetery in 1991.
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Borah School students display a letter from the White House in 1966. They are, from left: Milo Linville, Peggy Koontz, Patty Kelley and Ray Harris.
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Chamber manager Kyle Walker and Royal Shields of the Coeur d’Alene Wildlife Federation warily eye buffalo brought to town as a promotional gimmick in 1956.
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Athletic Director Larry Schwenke presents former Rare Earth drummer Peter Rivera (Hoorelbeke) with a plaque for a fund-raising concert in 1996.
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In 1996, Coeur d'Alene police Capt. Carl Bergh holds fliers of two local women who disappeared 10 years earlier: Deborah Swanson and Sally Stone.
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Harry Button thought he was a goner when he hit the bottom of the frigid Spokane River.
But he surfaced moments later to become a Post Falls Police Department legend and to narrate a Super Bowl commercial about his narrow escape.
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