H.H. & M.B. Bryant Ford Dealership, 1602 Main Street, (16th & Main) c.1917

Photograph by Walter Lubken, donated by Max Sarvis

Image credits:
Left, Idaho State Historical Society: 76-114.14; Right, copyright Shawn Records 1999.

"Then came the automobile. The first automobile in Boise, I think, was owned by Eloff Anderson. He was a tailor on 10th Street between Main and Grove there, down across from the Idanha. He had a Buick Buckboard. No springs on the thing at all. It was a buckboard, with no top on it. He had a handle there in front, one seat, and that was the marvel of the country, I tell you what! And in our parades we'd have Eloff Anderson, sit up there, he and his wife, sit in that little thing there with just a little, no windshield, just a little protection in the front, dashboard, like they'd have on a buggy, and go chugging down Main Street, you know. And in the parade, he'd always head the parades--chug, chug, chug, chug, down Main Street. It was really something!"

-Doctor Winfred P. Hall, October 14, 1976

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