This day in history: Man kidnaps 26 children, school bus driver. Kids find cabin loaded with dynamite near Liberty Lake From 1976: James Schoenfeld, one of three men accused of kidnapping 26 children and their school bus driver near Chowchilla, California... See more
This day in history: A booming new kind of business and a mysterious bang were making headlines From 1976: A new kind of business was booming in Spokane: “mini-warehousing,” or self-storage, as we would call it today. “Mini-warehousing is fast becoming a ... See more
This day in history: Widespread labor unrest rocked the region From 1976: The summer of 1976 was “the worst season of labor unrest” in the Inland Northwest in decades, according to a federal labor negotiator. Nearly 7,000 workers were on strike throughout... See more
This day in history: The Spokane Interplanetary Airport? Vacations to Mars were floated in a cheeky Chronicle column From 1976: The Spokane Chronicle ran a tongue-in-cheek humor column about a “big new industry for eastern Washington entrepreneurs”: A “Me... See more
This day in history: Fake bomb stopped railroad traffic. As federal bureaucrat defended holding Indian property, only whites applauded From 1976: A citizen called in an alarming report: A bomb had been planted on the Burlington Northern railroad tracks at... See more
