Fond memories of community's past

There is a huge brick bank where Harold’s IGA and Diner used to be … donut and a cup of coffee for a quarter. Across the street was Sandpoint Ice and Fuel. When we first got married and we were living in our little Log Honeymoon Cabin we heated with a wood cook stove and we bought a gunny sack of anthracite coal once a week so the little firebox would hold fire overnight.

The next block over was the Co-op Granary where we would pick up a 100-pound sack of dairy molasses for Beauty, our Guernsey milk cow. Fill up the gas tank at the Co-op pumps where the antique store is now and where someday soon The Carousel of Smiles will be located.

Drive downtown and stop for a few minutes at the Pastime Cafe and Sport Shop, where Pend d'Oreille Pete stood on the sidewalk with that huge Kamloop on his back (He’s been moved inside US Bank now). Then over to the old Safeway close to the hospital. Groceries and most likely some visiting.

And finally on the way out of town, before we cross the Long Bridge, stop at Don‘s Drive-in for ice cream cones. That’s all been a while ago. I can see that bit of ice cream on the tip of your nose, and I hear the crunch of the cone.

STEVE JOHNSON

Sagle