A cheerful welcome from Red and White Foods (1949)

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This file appears in: The Legendary Chinese Cemeteries of Browne's Addition: Is the first Rosauer's Supermarket really built over Chinese graves?

A section from a 1949 newspaper advertisement by Red & White Foods, featuring a line drawing of a happy butcher (?). It reads, "We welcome Rosauer's Super Market, 1808 W. Third Ave., Spokane's Newest, Modern Food Market."

We Welcome Rosauer's Super Market [Ad]. (November 22, 1949). Spokesman-Review, p. 45.

This file appears in: The Legendary Chinese Cemeteries of Browne's Addition: Is the first Rosauer's Supermarket really built over Chinese graves?

The Legendary Chinese Cemeteries of Browne's Addition: Is the first Rosauer's Supermarket really built over Chinese graves?

By Liz Wood

One popular Spokane urban legend is the tale of a Chinese cemetery buried under the Rosauer's Supermarket in Browne's Addition. This story has recently been doing the rounds on social media platforms…