East 5th Street looking west, 1932 (image L87-1.1645-32 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture)

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This file appears in: Lois D'Ewart, Resident Since 1960

East 5th Street looking west, 1932 (image L87-1.1645-32 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture)

The I-90 freeway would be constructed just two blocks north (to the viewer's left) of 5th Street. Much of this residential neighborhood has since succumbed to blight.

This file appears in: Lois D'Ewart, Resident Since 1960

Lois D'Ewart, Resident Since 1960

By Spokane Regional Health District's Neighborhoods Matter Program, & Frank Oesterheld

"You'd have thought we moved to the North Pole when we moved to the other side of the freeway." Lois D'Ewart has lived in the East Central neighborhood since 1960, long enough to remember the Clark's Department Store in…