![]() ![]() What a unique arrangement it was for the new county and the mercantile, one-stop shopping of sorts, with county affairs and transactions on the second floor, domestic items on the first floor and groceries in the basement! ![]() For $1000 rent per year, which included utilities, officials conducted county business here until 1911, when county duties moved to the brand-new courthouse on Shoshone Street across from the city park. In 1907, when Cassia County was downsized to create Twin Falls County, many of those second-floor rooms became the first “courthouse offices,” and a lodge hall proved to be suitable as a courtroom. In its first couple of years on that dusty corner of Main, the upper floor of the Allen Mercantile provided rooms as temporary “halls” for fraternal groups such as the Knights of Pythias, the Grand Army of the Republic, and the Knights of Columbus. The oft-proclaimed phrase, “Meet me at the I.D.,” exemplified the social connection people had with the business.īut not all transactions in that Main Street building revolved around bargains and trading farm goods for domestic necessities. Store made a positive mark on the community and on those who traded, shopped, or worked there. for 21 cents per hour or the machine in the shoe department that showed x-ray images of customers’ feet? No matter the recollection, the I.D. And how about the teenagers in the 1930s who worked at the I.D. Rayl, recalled trading farm products for necessities, explaining how she would take “… crated eggs and with the help of a child, lug them to the grocery store in the basement to be traded for whatever was needed.” Even today, thirty-five years after the store’s closing, images of the large white scales next to the elevator, the mezzanine lounge, the only public restrooms in town, the “Economy Basement” with the many bargains, Boy Scout uniforms on the downstairs shelves, and the Saturday display- window style shows remain etched in the memories of long-time residents. One early resident and frequent customer of the Idaho Department Store, Pearl M. ![]() It became a part of Main Street’s identity, accommodating loyal customers for eighty-plus years. Please contact us if you cannot properly experience this site.The Idaho Department Store provided far more than the “Goods & Ready to Wear,” “Shoes,” and “Gent’s Furnishings” as advertised on its 1910 store front. BEX Realty is an equal housing opportunity real estate brokerage specializing, along with its individual brokers and real estate agents in luxury homes for sale representing waterfront homes and communities. Federal law prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin in the sale, rental or financing of housing. The Idaho Association of Realtors and its cooperating MLS's do not create, control or review the property data displayed herein and take no responsibility for the content of such records. Information provided is thought to be reliable but is not guaranteed to be accurate, you are advised to verify facts that are important to you and no warranties, expressed or implied, are provided for the data herein, or for their use or interpretation by the user. The single-family homes displayed here may not be all the available properties in the MLS's database, or all of the properties listed with Brokers participating in the cooperative data exchange program and properties that are listed by Brokers other than this Broker are marked with either the listing Broker's name or the MLS name or a logo provided by the MLS and the detailed listing page about such properties includes the name of the listing Brokers. The Idaho real estate listing data relating to 3423 Highway 95 with MLS #98855603 advertised on the BEX Realty website comes in part from a cooperative data exchange program of the multiple listing service (MLS) or additional real estate data sources in which this real estate Broker participates. ![]()
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