I remember the bishop’s house, I was part of the young adults conservation core, and we actually got to do some drywalling in the bishop house before reopened up
This video is a very enjoyable and educational glimpse of some of Boise’s earlier years. Our family moved to Boise around 1946 (I was 9 years old, my brother was 7 and our sister was 4). We kids all attended Park School which was then on Main Street near downtown. Dad, a WW1 veteran, had worked for J.A. Terteling on military construction projects in an around Babbit, NV during WW2. We really thought we were moving to the big city when we came to Boise!
The story about the hs is total nonsense. Id suggest you go back and listen to the dates you suggest and ask yourself if they built a hs that opened in 1902 that was supposed to serve boise forever why would they build it "hastily" and then start construction on a new one 6 years later. Clearly there's something else going on there that isnt being told.
Nice, informative video. But after more than 15 years, I think it's time to update it to reflect the many changes that have taken place in that decade and a half.
0:20 - I ate at that Blimpie when I was a kid living on Boise. We would ride our bikes into town just to eat there. It was my favorite place to eat as a kid.
Slight correction, the JROTC presence in the basement of the East Wing of Boise High lasted into at least the mid-1980s. I graduated in 1983, and visited in 1984 and it was still there. But when I returned in 1992 it had left.
I lived in Boise in the mid 60's to 1973. I remember getting my first car which was a corvair. I drove it downtown for the first time and parked behind or on the side of the 88 cent store. I came out to leave and the motor was on fire & somebody extinguished it before the fire dept came. The corvair motors was in the back. I was young but I loved Boise and I could get around easy.. I suppose it is more difficult now with so many people. I believe we lived over by Vista around Shoshone St. I remember we had to irrigate a certain day of the week. Do they still do that now? Inam just curious on so many things.. We loved the Red Steer also Albertson's and I believe Safeway and Article Circles was there. The Grand Centrals also my favorite Delsa's ice cream on Ustick Rd. My first time eating pizza was in Boise and I believe Pizza just came to Boise. Is Lucky Peak and Ann Morrison, Julia Davis Park still there? Have fun and enjoy life in Boise, also lived in Emmett and Grangeville. All very beautiful.
Thank you Robert Dawson. I lived for a short time on Kerr St. It was a small 2 bedroom in the back of a large lot. The street behind was Hervey. We moved close to Capital High on Jackie Lane, then Emmett. I got older out of school then moved back to Missouri. I plan to come and visit with my husband hopefully by next September. If I can afford too find a place for hopefully 1 month.
Quite Anti American. Burn and bum Nixon and then all of a sudden happy music applauds Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter did not help America. The Democrats ran away from him. The White House was bare. Jimmy had no chance of winning. A lot of propaganda. You speak of Boise back then like it was Los Angeles or Dallas. Boise was like other cities you repeatedly say. Honestly Boise had blinking yellow lights downtown after 8 o'clock at night past the year 1989. Boise was a small town. Meridian was just a speedway. And Caldwell and Nampa were just good for a hotel room. This is sad. Not educational. I stamp this Propaganda.
I was born and primarily grew up in Boise in the 1970s & 1980s. I left in the early 1990s and have absolutely no intention of living there again. The city that I knew as a child, teen and then young adult has been destroyed. Thanks to the recent influx of residents, especially from California, has made it basically impossible for any native Idahoan to be able to buy or afford ANY rental in the Treasure Valley. Boise could have actually planned for the growth, which they NEVER did. It should not take over an hour just to get from one side of town to another.
Although Americans see themselves as the complete opposite of the Communists, they were the same in their treatment of historic buildings in the 1970s or worse. The cities in the countries behind the Iron Curtain were often also literally "bombed" by excavators to create a place for the future cutting off from the past. Usually, however, it was not as insane as in the United States. At the same time, people remained living in the city centers and there were no unregulated suburbs and dead city centers as in the US.
Jeezus fucking christ do you have to play that fucking music all the way thru the whole fucking video? Gimme a break. Music is a little okay to introduce your topic, but please get off it,
Interesting contemporary modern architcture! I am into old malls, modern contemporary designs, but I hate seeing them torned down for new shopping centers.
