Allen Sielaff, August 27, 2015

Allen Sielaff’s interview, completed on August 27, 2015, spanned his personal and family history in the Boise area. Sielaff detailed his grandfather’s career as a jockey, racing horses all over the country and parts of Mexico. His second grandfather worked in construction and raised horses; the most famous being race horse, Idaho Tribe. His family’s connection to horses permeated Sielaff’s earliest memories with his grandfathers. Sielaff also discussed his parents both going to Borah High School and his father’s career as a local business owner in accounting. Sielaff and his sister both grew up in the Vista area going to South Junior High School and Borah High School. He graduated in 1989. He described the businesses he remembered as a kid, as well as what he did as a teenager to pass the time.