Back int he halcyon days of roller skating, roller rinks would produce a label with an rink or roller skate theme and the name and
Tag: Idaho
Main Street, U.S.A.
Today’s post features 12 different postcards showing the town or city’s Main street. Click on the image to learn further details. Anaconda, Montana 2. Little
Bowers 99’r – Boise, Idaho
Bowers 99’r all you can eat smorgasbord restaurant, was started by Leo and Margie Bowers in the Fall of 1959. at 4043 State St. in
I Miss You Something Awful
Mailed from Boise, Idaho to Mrs. Frank Vermilya of Mount Holly, New Jersey on August 24, 1953: Dearest Darling Thelma, We arrived here at 8
Idaho Skunks Are Not To Be Sniffed At: The Roadside Signs of Fearless Farris’ Stinker Stations
“Fearless” Farris Lind had an eye for adventure. Born in 1915 outside of Twin Falls, Idaho, he graduated from Twin Falls High School in 1934.
Mechanafe – Boise, Idaho
WHERE THE WORLD MEETS TO EAT 100% Waiterless Restaurant It’s Electrical It’s Fascinating It’s Sanitary It’s Beautiful It’s Mechanical It’s Novelty It’s Progress It’s The
Cactus Pete’s and the Creation of a New Town
Peter “Cactus Pete” Piersanti was born in 1917 in Superior, Wyoming. The youngest of six kids to Italian parents. The family moved to Ogden, Utah.
Brunswick Cafe – Coeur d’Alene, Idaho
The Brunswick Cafe and Tepee Room with its now very much non-PC mascot named “skookum-um-chuck” was located at 411 Sherman St. in downtown Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Deals of the Day: October 6, 1966
These ads ran in the Idaho State Journal (Pocatello, Idaho) on October 6, 1966. I had fun putting this together. I was taken aback by