809 1st St

1956 - new construction

25 July 1956 - April 1963 - Sibley's Café - Wilfred 'Bill' Sibley

1963 - 1979 - Fireside Restaurant - Floyd & Agnes Duncan bought

1979 - 2015 - Willow Springs Station Restaurant

2015-10 - 2016 - Cheney Brewing Company restaurant opened Oct 2015 - closed 2016

2019 - 2019 M.R. Piggy's BBQ opened 7 Jan closed 17 Feb

2021-August - 31 December 2021 - The Speakeasy Restaurant, Carlos Fuentes

2026-09 - Charitty's Country; an American comfort food restaurant.

Bill Sibley bought 3 lots on the 800 block of 1st Street (the western half of the block, including the old 801 address) and built Sibley's Café which included "curb-side" service. People called it Sibley's Drive In, though in phone books it was always Sibley's Café. (CFP)

25 July 1956 - grand opening of Sibley's Café (CFP)

1958 Sibley’s Drive In

30 June 1962/3 Floyd and Agnes Duncan opened the Fireside Restaurant, having purchased Sibley's Café from Bill Sibley. He retired from the restaurant business due to health issues. They installed the fireplace to go along with the new name.

1964 - Bill and Betti Cloherty purchased the restaurant and added a bar.

1970 - Clyde & May Singleton purchased

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1977 - Clyde & May Singleton re-purchased and added a second story banquet room to the building.

1980-03-06 - Art Bale and Larry Smith purchased and renamed it Willow Springs Station, after completing extensive remodel of both exterior and interior.

1982 - Remodeled

8 March 2015 - Mike Hartman abruptly closed the restaurant

Oct 2015 - David Chavando opened Cheney Brewing Company Restaurant, but it closed in less than a year.

7 January 2019 - 17 February 2019 M.R. Piggy's BBQ with owners Mitchell Zand and Roger Droivold.

10 September 2021 - December 31 2021- Speakeasy Restaurant; Carl Fuentes and family.

April 2022 - 2023-02-15 Deals & Steals thrift store relocated to the right half of the building where the restaurant dining room had been.

2023-02 - The restaurant is for sale. Deals & Steals appears to be closed. The owner, Carlos Fuentes, seems to have left the area.

009/2007.5.11 2005

2026-06-15

Notes: A sign appeared over the entrance to the old restaurant seating area "Coming Soon Indian Oven."

On the Spokane County Assessors SCOUT map, the property showed that it was purchased on 5 January 2026 by JV Grand LLC. That entity listed its primary officers as Gurlabh Sigh and Pardeep Kumar with an addres of 1117 S. Oswald St. Spokane 99224-5469 and a previous address of 7518 N. Gambit St., Coeur d'Alene.