The Day Time Stood Still in Spokane
By Scott May, M.S., CRS., REALTOR Coldwell Banker Bullard Newnan GA
(Newnan - Peachtree City and surrounding areas)
Just the title of this post reminds me of an old story of a friend of mine who was on a flight into Spokane where the pilot announced on the P.A. system that he had begun his decent into Gieger Field saying that his passengers should set their clocks back 20 years! lol. Well, if you set your watches by the clock tower in downtown Spokane and Riverfront Park, you may in fact be way off come this Friday as work begins on the 109 year old giant sized grandfather clock and famous Spokane landmark. This Friday (May 13, at 10am) the clock will stop as work is conducted on the internal mechanisms. It should be back to regular time at some point during the following week. The clock tower was constructed between 1901 and 1902 and was part of the Great Northern Railroad Depot that was demolis...
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