Submitted by:
Marnie Rorholm

When I was a little girl, my family and I used to go to Sunday brunch at the Davenport after church on Sundays in the late 70's and early 80's. They had it in the main lobby area, and there was a wonderful piano player named Chuck Raynor who could play beautifully with no music and carry on an entire conversation at the same time. I told him that I was taking piano lessons and hoped to play as well as he someday. He stopped playing and let me sit on the bench next to him and play "Fur Elise" for the entire crowd. Then he joined me and made it a duet that filled the whole lobby. What ever happened to him?

    I also remember taking my little sister by the hand and our parents letting us go upstairs by ourselves to the second floor to look at the great white polar bear. I always thought of the Davenport when I saw it in later years at the airport. Then when I worked at Gonzaga University it was housed in the Crosby Student Center (still is, I think). Are they going to move it back to the hotel?