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How do urban myths get lodged into local culture? Hard to say sometimes, but when they do, they’re often stuck forever.

Chuck King’s family claimed they were related to Jesse James. But were they? Uh… No.

Today we're over at…

Today on the King’s Guide, we're over at the Boulevard Building at the corner of Monroe and Indiana at Northwest Boulevard. This interesting triangular shaped building was built in 1910 by Olaf Lillequist. By 1915, the Boulevard was sold, and…

Did you know? The Hamilton Studio was once the auditorium and gymnasium for the Saint Joseph School and Church. But this wasn't the first school building on this property. A two story wooden building, which was originally behind the church…

On this episode of The King's Guide, we're at the corner of Hamilton and Indiana. We're focusing on the southwest corner where a Starbucks coffeehouse was recently built. Chuck has a personal connection to this corner, but we'll get to…

Have you ever been to the Army surplus store? In our recent then and now segment on North Division (see our previous post), our historical photo had a two story brick building in the background. It turned out that the…

Here, near the end of the Cable Road is a historic Charles and Elsie Thomas house at the corner of Boone and Summit Boulevard. The Thomas House was built over a decade after the cable line was converted to electric…

On this short episode of the King's Guide, Chuck visits the old site of the Sharp Castle, or “Castle Sharp”, at 702 W Sharp Ave in Spokane.

There was once a castle on this rock! The home here was…