Gone but not forgotten

Recent photo of the site of the former Moore Hotel

From Chapter 1, Page 1 of Farewell Bend:

As I approached Farewell Bend for the first time in thirty-eight years, my mind’s eye tried to reproduce the erector-set steel girders that once carried US 30 across the Snake River into town. The vacant site of that landmark bridge had disappeared into the weedy landscape north of where a concrete slab speeds Interstate traffic across the river. Likewise gone was the Moore Hotel. With its rooftop red-neon sign, that six-story hotel once defined Farewell Bend’s skyline for travelers approaching from the Idaho bluffs to the east. Where it stood tall above Oregon Street, a grassy plot of land sat vacant.