Represents a crescent shaped district around the North, West, and Southern parts of the City of Spokane, and parts of North and Southwestern Spokane County, including Airway Heights, Medical Lake and Cheney.
Legend has it that in 1907 President Teddy Roosevelt visited Maxwell House, the prestigious Nashville hotel and after finishing a cup of their namesake coffee, he declared it was, good to the last drop.. At least that is what Maxwell House Coffee Company advertised in 1920. While legends are romantic they are rarely accurate.
However, Roosevelt's praise of the blend was supposed to have come while he was visiting the Hermitage, home of President Andrew Jackson, as a guest of the Ladies Hermitage Association. The president was en route back to Washington from a hunting trip in Mississippi when on Oct. 22, 1907, he spent a few hours in Nashville. Roosevelt gave the Hermitage ladies his backing for a federal appropriation for their project to restore the Jackson mansion. The ladies gave him a cup of coffee. A marketing legend was born: The hostess asked him if he would have another cup of Maxwell House Coffee. ''Will I have another? Delighted! It's good to the last drop!'' Writer Bill Carey, a former Tennessean reporter, questions in his recent book on Nashville business history whether the coffee Roosevelt was served was in fact Maxwell House, let alone whether the comment was real.