Submitted by:
Sally Arbon McDowell

Each Christmas holiday the Spokane Central Lions Club held their luncheon in the basement of the Davenport Hotel. In 1954 when I was 10 (and my sister 7), we looked forward to our Dad taking us to lunch. The fathers brought their children and grandchildren. Fathers waited to introduce their families… those who had the most family members or who traveled the greatest distance to be there. Each year my sister and I would play a piano duet of Christmas carols. Our father, Leonard Arbon, was President in 1963. My sister and I sat at the head table with members of the Ice Capades invited annually to the luncheon. But most of all, I remember my first taste of the thick, chocolate milk shakes. No milkshake has met the Davenport Hotel standard since.