G.O. Phippeny, then 98, talks to a well-wisher at a ceremony naming the new city park at Seventh and Montana in his honor in 1989. Coeur d’Alene’s former junior high and high schools were once located on the site.
October 6, 2024
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October 6, 2024 1:05 a.m.
HUCKLEBERRIES: Shore is nice here
Coeur d’Alene took its waterfront for granted until Bob Templin built his North Shore Motor Hotel. Before then, the site was dominated by railroad switchyards, a steamboat landing, a lumber mill, industrial warehouses, log storage, junk and weeds.