The one after 1909...
First, an old photo, then part 3 of "Cd'A 1906"...

The first snowfall of the year, at least at this elevation, happened today. Bah humbug. So, here I am, esconsced in my humble living quarters trying to stay warm. And a day like this...well, it's a good day for blogging.

This first photo takes us back to 1909. Actually, I've posted this picture before, but this time around, it's on an actual postcard which someone mailed to someone else way back when, so what you're about to see has a bit more historical authenticity than usual...



This view is from a location near where Independence Point is now. You can see Tubbs Hill in the background. From here, passengers could hop on a train to take them to Spokane and points westward. An old postcard that shows "life goes on"...
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Okay, okay, the moment you've all been waiting for...part 3 of the old piecemeal magazine article that I've been posting over the last coupla days. It features Coeur d'Alene, circa 1906. A century ago. A document of a long-ago age when things were vastly different. As I see it, you have two options you can exercise in reading this article: 1. You can focus REALLY HARD on this article until your eyeballs pop out, or, 2. You can click on the article so it getts bigger and more readable. So, here ya go...



Talk about serendipity...the photo I placed in the previous portion of this post was taken from about the same location as THIS photo, taken some 3 years earlier. (1906) You can see where the railroad tracks ended, and passengers would commute from rail to boat or vice versa. Another way you can tell the times have changed? The last paragraph here refers to the lumber industry, how it's the biggest thing going around here. We still have vestiges of the lumber industry 'round here, but it tain't what it used ta be! Part 4 will be delivered to your doorstep tomorrow. More old CDA history.
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You might wonder where I got the title for this post ("The one after 1909"). There's an old song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney in the late '50s; the song was removed from the mothballs and recorded for 1969's Beatle LP, "Let It Be". Only, the song's title was "The one after 909". So now ya know.