Family farms

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...

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.

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The collection consists of correspondence, postcards, school notebooks, birth certificates, day planners, photo albums and photographic prints, maps of Boise, geneaology research, newspapers, school certificates and magazines. Also included in the collection are oral histories conducted with family members and several artifacts including a camera and wedding rings.

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Mary Crist, daughter of Eastern European immigrants. Her father (Mike Simunich) worked for Boise-Payette lumber company and bought many acres of land in the Central Bench. Mary went to Franklin School for all 12 years and recounts some stories of early childhood, including getting a permanent style haircut, raising cows and pigs, and riding her horse through Boise.

Abstract Sadami Tanabe was interviewed on January 13, 2014 as part of the Boise Bench history. He began his interview talking about how his family made a living farming near Portland, OR and how he volunteered to work the fields in Nyssa, ID. After his time in Nyssa, his family was forced to leave Portland and go to Minidoka Internment Camp until 1946. After World War II, Tanabe and his family stayed in Boise with Tanabe buying his first house on the Boise Bench. Currently, Tanabe is retired, but...

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.