These days if you take a stroll down Broadway just south of Northern Pacific Avenue toward the railroad tracks, you’ll pass banks, restaurants, and a place to get your dog groomed. 

But 80 years ago you could see and maybe even touch evidence of the enemy.

On Sept. 21, 1943, at the height of World War II, a Japanese submarine was parked on the street just south of where the Old Broadway restaurant is now and thousands of curious folks came out to catch a glimpse.