Lifting Home on Corner of Mackay Main Street and Spruce to Add A Basement - Circa 1910

Dentist O.B, Wade had the big house on the corner of Mackay Main Street and Spruce raised up and a basement added with its own outside entrance building circa 1910. The house was used as the US Forest Service Office after that.

This house became the Hazel Lundberg home in 1937 where she and daughter, Marjorie Christine Lundberg ran a boarding house with 2 apartments in the basement.The little building nestled between the main house and the side of the two-story Custer Hotel is a separate entrance to the lower portion of the home. Hazel Lundberg House at 316 Main Street with Uresti House (now the Bear Bottom Inn in 2013) and Custer Hotel in 1965 (below)

Custer Hotel and American Theatre were razed after the 1983 Mt. Borah Earthquake. Monica and Shawn built the Rocking Horse Dance Studio and garages at the location after 1991.

Shawn and Monica Nelson Home, now being rented.

Blast from the Past - American Theatre circa 1965

The Custer Hotel and American Theatre closed circa 1952 and sat empty until the building was razed after the October 28 1983 Mt. Borah Earthquake. The American Theatre was located on Main Street where the former Rocking Horse Dance Studio over the Nelson owned garage is located today. The red plush seats from the American Theatre are now located in Mackay's Main Theatre.

Tom Mix (the sign in the window at the American Theatre) was a cowboy film star born in 1880 and died in 1940. From http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0594291/bio

Blast from the Past - Mackay Rodeo Parade Mackay Miner Jun 29 1961

Blast from the Past - Custer Hotel - Mackay Miner May 27 1954

National Guard Razed the Custer Hotel on Mackay Main Street after the 1983 Mt. Borah Earthquake October 28, 1983 8:07 AM. Looking across the lot where the Custer Hotel used to stand toward Main Street with Hazel Lundberg's Home on the right

National Guard Razes the Custer Hotel on Mackay Main Street after the 1983 Mt. Borah Earthquake October 28, 1983 8:07 AM

National Guard Razes the Custer Hotel on Mackay Main Street after the 1983 Mt. Borah Earthquake October 28, 1983 8:07 AM

Custer Hotel Crumbles on to Hazel Lundberg's Home on Main Street Mackay after the 1983 Mt. Borah Earthquake October 28, 1983 8:07 AM

Custer Hotel & American Theatre Razed 1983

The Idaho National Guard razed the Custer Hotel and American Theatre on Mackay Main Street. The building on the left is the Hazel Lundberg home which still exists today in 2010 (owned by Nelson's). The white 2-story building in the background is the former Uresti House which was owned in 1983 by Frank and Marjorie Lundberg Malkiewicz (it currently is the Bear Bottom Inn in 2010 owned by Margie VanOrden.

 

Blast from the Past - Custer Hotel Before and Afte

Custer Hotel & American Theatre Circa 1950

Custer Hotel on Mackay Main Street 1918

The Custer Hotel on Mackay Main Street near Spruce Street was built in 1918 and razed after the 1983 Mt. Borah Earthquake damaged it. From the Lula Shaffer Collection.

Later, the American Theatre was added to this location.