Very sad! Furgeson resturant and the Milk Bottle resturant in the Garland District burt down last night! (apartment)

[redhead]

This is very sad and a great loss for our community.........i sure hope the owners of both these iconic resturants rebuild!!!!
here's the link to the spoksman review newspaper report on the fire:http://www.spokesman.com/stories/201...-damaged-fire/

[Yeledaf]

Originally Posted by redhead

This is very sad and a great loss for our community.........i sure hope the owners of both these iconic resturants rebuild!!!!
here's the link to the spoksman review newspaper report on the fire:Fire destroys Ferguson's Café, badly damages Milk Bottle - Spokesman.com - Sept. 26, 2011

Wow. I have to agree with you, red. That is a bummer.

Maybe they can move the other milk bottle from the west side (where I believe it is being used by a dry cleaning company) up to Garland to replace the one that was burned down.

[redhead]

ya yeledaf it's a big big loss for the garland district; you might have noticed i've been talking up this neighborhood/district for sometime, i love the area and frequent it often and these two places were the main draw besides the garland theather which ran older movies and only charges $3.50 a ticket and has $1 movie nighs on wed.

but the milk bottle itself was saved becasue the firefighters doussed the milk bottle so it wouldn't get destroyed,

and already the hood and fellow businesses are talking about doing fundraising to help rebuild both places...........both owers were covered with insureance but i'm sure there's more $$ needed to regain what the community had before the fire.

it seems spokane is expiencing a wave of unexplained or maybe explained but a drastic increase in fires. just scan the newspaper for the past year and you'll see a rash of home and business fires. yesterday a train on the viaduck in sunrise caught fire and billowed smoke until the crew extinguished it............
just seems like a big increase in this stuff

[Yeledaf]

Originally Posted by redhead

ya yeledaf it's a big big loss for the garland district; you might have noticed i've been talking up this neighborhood/district for sometime, i love the area and frequent it often and these two places were the main draw besides the garland theather which ran older movies and only charges $3.50 a ticket and has $1 movie nighs on wed.

but the milk bottle itself was saved becasue the firefighters doussed the milk bottle so it wouldn't get destroyed,

and already the hood and fellow businesses are talking about doing fundraising to help rebuild both places...........both owers were covered with insureance but i'm sure there's more $$ needed to regain what the community had before the fire.

it seems spokane is expiencing a wave of unexplained or maybe explained but a drastic increase in fires. just scan the newspaper for the past year and you'll see a rash of home and business fires. yesterday a train on the viaduck in sunrise caught fire and billowed smoke until the crew extinguished it............
just seems like a big increase in this stuff

I`m always suspicious of a rash of fires during an economic recession...

[redhead]

ya that's my take too............so many business and home fires:conf used: the arson section of the fire inspectors must be working overtime.
the fire started in the small space between the two resturants with some boxes and trash that were right next to the gas meter......
spokane may have a fire bug wondering around town who knows...........but lots of curious apartment fires and then fires just popping up along the river....