Some Boiseans are interested in copying a program for the homeless that is operating in Salt Lake City called Housing First. The idea is that the homeless would be offered housing regardless of their behavior and eventually some of them … Continue reading →
A little glimpse of Boise’s Ann Morrison Park with downtown Boise in the background. Construction of the park began in 1958 and the park was dedicated in 1959. Harry Morrison of the noted engineering and construction firm Morrison-Knudsen directed the … Continue reading →
View along the tracks looking east at the train station in Boise. The station was built in 1925. Partially visible in this photo is “Big Mike,” a steam locomotive that is displayed at the depot. Mike gets its name from the … Continue reading →
Here are views of downtown Boise taken from the park at the train depot. The first was taken by my uncle Irving, most likely in 1949. And a photo I took in July 2015: Such are the changes in 66 years. … Continue reading →
1949 photo of Idaho’s state capitol building in Boise. Photo by Irving Cornell … Continue reading →
Capitol Boulevard in Boise, Idaho. Looking north from the train station to the state capitol building. This photo was taken in the late 1940s or the early 1950s. The telephone office, expanded in the early ’50s, was the first building … Continue reading →
On Christmas Eve, 1914, Boise charities continued a tradition of giving presents to orphans and other underprivileged poor children. That year, “batchelor boys and girls” were talked into devoting their energies toward making a great celebration, as The Statesman noted: “Somebody pressed … Continue reading →
Residents in east Boise got an early start to their day on August 20, 1959 as loudspeakers on fire trucks gave warnings of a flash flood on Cottonwood Creek. Everyone escaped safely, but the stream filled basements with water and … Continue reading →
An odd feature of town life in Idaho a century ago was that in some areas people had gone directly from travel on horseback to the use of mass transit. Boise got its first electric streetcars in 1891, years before … Continue reading →
During the winter of 1864-65 the vigilantes of Payette Valley had success in ending thefts in their area, but the Pickett Corral Gang was still in business. The gang continued to steal horses–it just avoided taking them from its neighbors … Continue reading →