On Friday, 100 years after her father left the Lilac City to become a pop music luminary, Mary Crosby unveiled a section of Sprague Avenue renamed for him.

As she pulled the cover of the lilac-covered sign marking a section of the roadway as Bing Crosby Way, Mary Crosby flashed a smile that rivaled her father’s iconic grin sported on countless record covers, movie posters and advertisements.

“Coming here, you feel the love,” Mary Crosby said of Spokane. “I know that dad loved this place.”

Mary Crosby has not visited Spokane since the 1960s, but her appreciation for the city and its residents was on full display at the ongoing celebration of her father’s legacy organized by the Bing Crosby Advocates and city officials.

On Friday, the advocates unveiled a historic plaque on the Symons Bl

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