HUCKLEBERRIES: A clock like no other
This cast Iron clock has stood in front of Clark’s Diamond Jewelry at 307 E. Sherman Ave. for about 115 years.
Dave Oliveria photo
Owner Jane Clark adjusts the street clock’s mechanism.
Worker Craig Graber checks the old clock before it’s taken down for repair.
Mary Canfield Ferrell in 1888.
Oscar Canfield in 1911.
The Coeur d’Alene Press staff in November 1963: (seated from left) Frances Cope, government and police reporter; Kay Dimeling, women’s news; and Mabel Gellner, dark-room technician; and (standing from left) Charles Sowder, city editor; Harry Arnold, general news editor; and Bob Maker, sports editor.
Assessor Tom Moore, bottom, gets a bird from employees (from left) Mike McDowell, Fred Petragallo, and Kathleen Henry.
Coeur d’Alene firefighter Mandy Jacques breaks a glass ceiling.
Dean Haagenson of Contractors Northwest, lower right, watches construction of Coeur d’Alene’s first high rise.
Sgt. Nile Shirley, left, turns the helm of the KCSO marine division over to Sgt. Jeff Thomas.
The giant cast iron clock in front of Clark’s Diamond Jewelry is slower now.
But you would be slower, too, if you had survived two world wars, 115 years of North Idaho winters, car crashes and a volcanic eruption.
“It’s like a hot rod left out in the weather,” former owner Dan Clark said last week.
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