1. As I read deeper into The Fair and the Falls and learn more about the mighty obstacles the organizers faced locally, nationally, and internationally, it's a minor miracle, a staggering one, to me that Spokane's Expo 74 happened. There were a lot of tense moments when the whole thing could have collapsed, but the organizers' commitment was strong and the Washington Senator duo of Warren Magnuson and Scoop Jackson was powerful and in full support of Expo '74. Their support was crucial.
2. My tightened up lower back is not painful, just inflexible. I went to Yoke's for a few things today and I enjoyed how the grocery cart was a splendid aid to my stroll around the store.
3. I took a break from reading about Expo '74 and poked around the World Wide Web looking at commercial businesses in the Spokane area that one thrived and are no longer around. I don't think I ever went to the huge discount store on E. Sprague and N. Divison called 2 Swabbies, but my unreliable memory tells me that 2 Swabbies sponsored local television programs and had prominent ads in the Spokane newspapers.
It added to my fun that last summer Spokane author Jess Walter wrote a fictional account about a pretend basketball game between a low level Russian team and a collection of local Eastern Washington castoffs whose team was sponsored by 2 Swabbies.
It's a fun story and reminded me of when Dad and I went to the Spokane Colesium in late summer 1974 and watched a U.S. National Team featuring such players as David Thompson and Quinn Buckner defeated a Soviet All-Star team.
I don't remember if 2 Swabbies helped sponsor this game....
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