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Article: RIVERFRONT PARK'S A GEM IN INTERESTING DOWNTOWN SPOKANE.(Getaways)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- September 25, 1997
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Morning-after pundits typically judge the short-term success or failure of major international expositions by whether they made money. But the lasting measure is their legacy.
Here in Washington, we've staged two world's fairs in the past 35 years. Both have endowed their host cities with outstanding civic attractions.
In Seattle, the 74-acre Seattle Center has meant more to the city in the intervening years than Century 21, the world's fair, did in 1962.
In Spokane, the heritage of Expo 74, that city's world's fair in 1974, is the splendid 100-acre Riverfront Park. What were once dingy railroad yards in the heart of the city have become the ...