Parades; Fire engines; Fire prevention; Stores, Retail;
As part of the Fire Prevention Week activities, an evening parade took place. This photo was taken as the parade crossed Ninth Street, heading west on Main, in front of the Yates Building (only the sign is visible). A fire engine is in the...
Looking north, the destruction looms from the Sonna Department Building fire. The sign from "Hotel Boise" stands above the pit, with the foothills in the background.
Fire extinction; Fires; Flame; Smoke; Stores, Retail;
Flames and smoke billow upwards from the building while the Avenue Market sign hangs on its side. Water streams shoot towards the fire from the bottom right of the photograph. The Avenue Market was located on Warm Springs Avenue near the old Idaho...
Fire extinction; Fire hose; Fire fighters; Smoke; Fires; Department stores;
Thick smoke billows from the roof of the Sonna Building in downtown Boise. Fire fighters send three streams of water from hoses on the street in through the windows above the J.C. Penney Building. Hoses line the 900 block of Main Street.
Fire extinction; Smoke; Fires; Fire hose; Department stores;
An aerial view of the Sonna Building fire. Smoke pours from the top of the building. Crowds of people gather at the corners of 9th and Main (below the fire) and 10th and Main (above the fire). A stream of water from a fire hose shoots across Main...
Fisher, Vardis, 1895-1968--Criticism and interpretation; Frontier and pioneer life in literature; West (U.S.) in literature; West (U.S.)--Intellectual life; Idaho in literature;
Boise State University; Initiation rites; Fraternities & sororities; Hotels;
The pledging freshmen of the Intercollegiate Knights standing outside the Hotel Boise lounge wearing costume helmets and potato sacks as part of the initiation rites. A similar photo on the IK page in the 1951 yearbook indicates that this photo is...
Boise State University; Fraternities & sororities;
The Intercollegiate Knights at Boise Junior College pose for a group picture. Left to right, first row: N. Howard, B. Moulton, S. Hadley, E. Charlton, M. Baptie; second row: C. Taylor, D. Luce, G. Collett, N. Clark, J. Bell; third row: S. Snyder,...
Boise State University; Initiation rites; Fraternities & sororities; Hotels;
New recruits to the Intercollegiate Knights student organization dressed as knights as part of the pledging rituals for the group. A similar photo on the IK page in the 1951 yearbook indicates that this photo is probably from the Fall of 1950.
"The Royal Court," left to right: Gloria Johnston, Gerri Privett, Luane Brent, and Barbara Moulton sitting in the back of a convertible inside the football stadium. These four women were finalists for the Homecoming Queen competition won by June...
Boise State University; Initiation rites; Hotels; Fraternities & sororities
The pledging freshmen of the Intercollegiate Knights standing outside the Hotel Boise lounge wearing costume helmets and potato sacks as part of the initiation rites. A similar photo on the IK page in the 1951 yearbook indicates that this photo is...
Officers of the Associated Student Body at Boise Junior College. Left to right: Rex Fraser, president; Ina Routson, secretary; Jo Ann Harzler, vice president; Gerald Weast, treasurer.
The trophy presentation at the Kern County Shrine Club's 4th annual Potato Bowl, which featured Boise Junior College vs Bakersfield Junior College. From left to right: #20 Merlin Howard (BJC), #47 Dwight Winslow (BJC), Bowl Queen Ruth Armstrong,...
