Grand Forks’ North Fork bridges
Several different bridges have crossed the North Fork of the Kettle River since 1894.
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Greg Nesteroff
- Feb 2, 2020
- 13 min
Taffy Jack
Around 1995, Nelson’s Heritage Inn renamed its basement lounge Taffy Jack’s. This was an interesting choice, for while Taffy Jack was a...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Sep 7, 2019
- 2 min
Homing pigs and other oddities
A few strange stories worth sharing. The following appeared in the Nelson Daily News, of Jan. 14, 1914, under the headline “Pigs show...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Apr 11, 2019
- 2 min
Elephants on the Santa Rosa Pass
In 1956, local Greyhound driver Max Carne was taking his bus over the old Santa Rosa Pass between Rossland and Grand Forks — a gravel...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Mar 17, 2019
- 14 min
10 West Kootenay Boundary drive-in theatres
Is anything more nostalgic (at least to certain generations) than a drive-in theatre? From 1947 to 2003, at least 10 of them operated in...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Feb 28, 2019
- 1 min
Phantom signs: Grand Forks Furniture & Hardware
One of the more venerable Boundary commercial institutions was Grand Forks Furniture & Hardware at 358 Market Ave. The business has been...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 25, 2019
- 1 min
Gun play at Grand Forks
The latest Boundary Historical Society report (No. 18) reprints a story from the Grand Forks Gazette of April 24, 1958 about pioneer Bob...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Apr 25, 2018
- 6 min
Electric cars of Kootenay/Boundary: Grand Forks, 1905
First of five parts Was the first automobile ever seen in this region electric? With the current push to better accommodate electric...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Apr 18, 2018
- 1 min
Phantom signs: Grand Forks Gazette
Hand-painted signs on the north and south sides of the Grand Forks Gazette building at 7330 2nd St. advertise both its current and former...
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Greg Nesteroff
- Jan 18, 2018
- 1 min
Rossland/Greenwood syphon nets $1,700
A clear syphon from the Lion Bottling Works of Rossland and Greenwood (pictured below) sold on eBay this afternoon for $1,382 US, which...
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