This is an interesting read – combining history of the growth of the area with “what’s going to happen now” scenarios.
As a surge of traveling motorists teemed across the U.S. in the decade after World War II, roadside motels sprouted up along the east end of Coeur d’Alene’s Sherman Avenue, which then carried U.S. 10, a main east-west artery.
In 1964, work began on Interstate 90, constructed through Coeur d’Alene over a period of 24 years, and the federal highway system and its flood of traffic left east Sherman behind in its rear-view mirror.
Some of Sherman’s ’50s era motels, including the Flamingo, the State, and the Bates, still survive, while others have gone the way of the chrome-laden gas guzzler.
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