Layers Of The Box

The Peak

The Program

The Past reemerges.
The boxes don't matter, it's all in how they are programmed. Used for different things over the years, well off the mainstream of life, probably by design. Inside looks well kept and cared for. But, what can this be used for after people stop driving?

8th & Idaho, Looking West

Boise street scenes, corner of 8th and Idaho looking west on Idaho Circa 1940
Photographer Everett L. "Shorty" Fuller  

SOURCE: Idaho State Historical Society

May 2011  

Have we gotten better, or worse? You can't see the Balcony Club from here, although you feel it's presence. The business's seem less vital, less serious. But the same can be said about most things in this life: not serious. Everything is a facade. A parade of boxes with facades that are supposed to represent something real. But it isn't real. And it is not about to last, either.

Bus Bunker

Greyhound bus terminal,
12th and Bannock, Boise Idaho. 

Of course, this is scheduled to be replaced when the new transit mall is placed downtown, wherever it may be. People are terrified of the riff raff associated with bus riding. I've heard it from more than one citizen/consumer. Or is that, Consumer/Citizen? I think we know which takes precedence as things are arranged today.

Parking Basement Banker Bunker

 

That is WAYNE! heading down into the belly of the beast. Making a pickup from the ugliest monolith in Boise.

Tobacco Is Agriculture

 

What can't be farmed, must be mined.

Remake-Remodel

 

There is no reason to take a brick warehouse building and turn it into something else. No reason. Too expensive. You could have bulldozed that place, and put up something ADA compliant, generic, and boxey. but they didn't. For that reason, the developer has my undying admiration. I enjoy seeing this building whenever I walk by it. wa

Merry Dina

The onion shaped water tower by the speedway, as seen from the shopping complex that sprang up next to the freeway. Looking across the old core at Meridians old farm town past, at the grain elevator turned into a shopping place, only makes the sad demolition of the fertile farmland that used to be the reason this town existed sadder.

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