Engineering

Abstract Carlyle Briggs was born in 1922, he grew up near the corner of Franklin and Eagleson. His father was an engineer and his grandfather was a farmer near Cole and Ustick. Carlyle’s father ran an engineering office out of a building in Downtown Boise until the 1940s, when Carlyle joined the firm and the two of them opened an office on Grove Street. The office is now where the Basque Pelota court is. Carlyle built a house on a plot of land gifted to him from his father on the family land on...

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Joe Jordan started working for Morrison-Knudsen right after finishing his military service in the Army. In 1955 he went to work on the Brownlee and Oxbow in the Hells Canyon. Afterwards he went to work for Bechtel and then back to M-K to work on the Colombian coal project, called Cerrajon. Jordan then worked for International Engineering Company, an M-K company. Jordan worked on many international projects. IECo, of San Francisco, planed and offered engineering services to many countries.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains recorded interviews with Boise citizens. Notable topics include Boise Bench history, Greenbelt history, Foothills Levy history, Boise Fire Department history, Boise Police Department history, and personal and political histories of former mayors and councilmembers.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains recorded interviews with Boise citizens. Notable topics include Boise Bench history, Greenbelt history, Foothills Levy history, Boise Fire Department history, Boise Police Department history, and personal and political histories of former mayors and councilmembers.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains recorded interviews with Boise citizens. Notable topics include Boise Bench history, Greenbelt history, Foothills Levy history, Boise Fire Department history, Boise Police Department history, and personal and political histories of former mayors and councilmembers.