Where is this?
December 31st, 2008
Tried to buy this post card. Any ideas where it was taken? I’m stumped. Maybe 8th street, looks like the old Hotel Boise sign way in the back.
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December 31st, 2008
Tried to buy this post card. Any ideas where it was taken? I’m stumped. Maybe 8th street, looks like the old Hotel Boise sign way in the back.
January 1st, 2009 at 11:01 am
That is 8th street looking north.
The brick building on the right is the current public library.
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=library+boise&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=52.505328,78.75&ie=UTF8&ll=43.610415,-116.208487&spn=0,359.961548&z=15&layer=c&cbll=43.610536,-116.208366&panoid=H2VNM8E7LFWOeykWjEJGLQ&cbp=12,38.90662446664478,,0,5
January 1st, 2009 at 12:47 pm
That is the library on the right. This is 8th looking toward 8th street market place. It where the turnaround is and the Anne Frank Memorial. I park here all the time.
January 1st, 2009 at 4:57 pm
You’re correct. On the right, that’s the building that became part of the new Boise public library. Go to the Anne Frank monument and compare this to today’s view.
January 4th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
Everyone is right, of course. The Library gives it away. Additional details:
- The two structures opposite 8th Street from the library (U.S. Plywood and the little free-standing house) are still there, but will not survive the eventual Library Blocks redevelopment.
- The tallish broad structure a few blocks in the distance is the old Eastman Building, way before its abandonment and arson.
- Sticking up behind it, the slender top of the Hoff.