Northwest Dance & Music Venues
Spokane Coliseum
Spokane, Washington
Some of the bands that performed at this place during those great years of NW music were:
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Alice in Chains The Animals Bachman Turner Overdrive (BTO) The Bards Billy and the Kids The Beach Boys Black Sabbath The Box Tops British Lions Brownsville Station Beau Brummels The Bulldogs Blue Oyster Cult The Byrds Glenn Campbell The Capers The Cascades Ray Charles Chicago Joe Cocker Neil Diamond The Dixie Cups Don and The Goodtimes Donovan Druid The Dynamics Electric Prunes ELO Elvis |
Fat Chance The Fifth Dimension Firefall Five Americans The Frantics Frenship The Guess Who Sammy Hagar Richie Havens Jimi Hendrix The Kinks KISS The Kurks Jerry Lee Lewis Liverpool 5 Ian Matthews The Mark V James McKinley and Us Jefferson Airplane Marshall Tucker Band The Monkees Nazareth Notary Sojac Pageboys Paul Revere & The Raiders Peppermint Trolley Pembroke, Ltd Perpetual Sounds Gene Pitney The Playboys (Seattle) |
Rare Earth The Reflections The Roosters Rush Leon Russell Santana Savoy Brown Clayton Watson & the Silhouettes Sir Douglas Quintet Sir Raleigh & The Coupons Soft Machine Sonics The Squires Sleepy John Steppenwolf Steve Miller Band The Surprise Package Suzu Quatro The Swinging Medallions Three Dog Night Jethro Tull Ike and Tina Turner The Turtles Vanilla Fudge The Viceroys The Wailers Joe Walsh Waterwheel Ian Whitcomb Frank Zappa ZZ-Top |
Others
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Postcard - Courtesy of
Christin
P.
The caption on the back reads: "The Coliseum, Spokane, Washington - This new building was constructed at a cost of 2 1/2 million dollars and is the finest of its kind in the United States. It is used for sports events and many civic presentations."
In the Beginning - The
Spokane
Coliseum Under Construction
Interior looking toward
the west end stage, 1954. Photographer: Libby. Accession #
L87-1.77804-54
Photo
Courtesy of: Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture/Eastern
Washington
State Historical Society, Spokane, Washington
Image
Courtesy of Phyllis Hathaway
More of a venue for national tours than for local bands, it hosted concerts for Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, Steppenwolf, Vanilla Fudge, Ike and Tina Turner, Three Dog Night, and many more. These photos were taken just before it was demolished in 1995.Doug Rice, 2002
Clayton Watson and the Silhouettes backed Jerry Lee Lewis at the Coliseum in about 1958.
Clifford England, April 2007
I have 4 seats from the old barn in my game room. On the last day before the wrecking ball was to fall I wanted to take one last walk through the venue. Luckily a salvage operation was selling fixtures including seats. Myself and another fella split cost on 9 seats at $5 each. We each got 4 seats as the 9th seat was one between our connected 4 seats. I was in a car and had no way to transport the seats. I called my brother with a flatbed pickup and got them home. They are from section 6 row E seats 7 through 10.John Kowzan, July 2007
