[Vision2020] Another historical measure . . .

[Gary Crabtree]

E​ggan Apts. are now known as "Friendship Apts." and are a holding of Y&Z
properties. The accommodations might well be described as Spartan and
catering to the tenant who isn't interested in spending a large portion of
their income on amenities.

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On Sun, Mar 15, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:

> A friend of mine lived in Eggan Apts. about ten years ago.  I visited him
> there frequently, and they have an aura of being haunted by something...
> They are truly bizarre, like entering an alternative culture, another place
> and time, that now exists in downtown Moscow..  In the early 1970s I rented
> a room there for a few months... I recall reading Noam Chomsky's "At War
> With Asia" about the Vietnam war. while I lived at Eggans.
>
> I assume they are still in business.
>
> I could write a description, but it's best to see Eggans in person...
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> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
>
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 5:26 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>
>> This is . . . jus' . . . plain . . . AWESOME !
>>
>> Those apartments could be haunted, huh?
>>
>> Thanks for sharing.
>>
>> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>>
>> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
>> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>>
>> Tom Hansen
>> Moscow, Idaho
>>
>> "There's room at the top they are telling you still.
>> But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,
>> If you want to be like the folks on the hill."
>>
>> - John Lennon
>>
>>
>> On Mar 13, 2015, at 5:18 PM, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> One ad appears, maybe, to be for David's Dept. store, formerly on the
>> southeast corner of Third and Main, which was still at that location in
>> 1965, when I first came to Moscow,
>>
>> Another ad is for Hodgins drug store, of course, still in business...
>>
>> Too easy...
>>
>> Another ad is for a photographer James Eggan.  I wonder if there is any
>> connection to Eggan Apts. which, as bizarre as it is, still exists like a
>> relic from another place and time, across from the Moscow Police station,
>> also facing Main St., at 109 E. Fourth.
>>
>> I just did a Google search for "eggan apartments Moscow Idaho" and found
>> this strange Spokesman Review story from, it appears, July 20, 1957, about
>> a murder at Eggan apartments:
>>
>> "Suspect Is Arrested in Moscow Murder"
>>
>>
>> http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1314&dat=19570720&id=nS9WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=nOYDAAAAIBAJ&pg=7128,2093959
>>
>> I quote: "Two wounds had pierced the heart, Latah County coroner Donald
>> Ward said.  Kossman was found by a maid, Mrs. Mary Jensen, at the Eggan
>> apartments, which are across the street from the police station."
>>
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>> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Moscow Cares <moscowcares at moscow.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> . . . advertisements from the 1914 Moscow High School yearbook.
>>>
>>> How many of you fine peeps can identify some of these businesses that
>>> have come and gone from Moscow's terrain.  Yet, at least one retailer still
>>> remains from those days.  See if you can identify it.
>>>
>>> http://www.TomandRodna.com/Photos/Moscow/MHS_1914_Ads_01.jpg
>>>
>>> http://www.TomandRodna.com/Photos/Moscow/MHS_1914_Ads_02.jpg
>>>
>>> http://www.TomandRodna.com/Photos/Moscow/MHS_1914_Ads_03.jpg
>>>
>>> http://www.TomandRodna.com/Photos/Moscow/MHS_1914_Ads_04.jpg
>>>
>>> http://www.TomandRodna.com/Photos/Moscow/MHS_1914_Ads_05.jpg
>>>
>>> http://www.TomandRodna.com/Photos/Moscow/MHS_1914_Ads_06.jpg
>>>
>>> http://www.TomandRodna.com/Photos/Moscow/MHS_1914_Ads_07.jpg
>>>
>>> http://www.TomandRodna.com/Photos/Moscow/MHS_1914_Ads_08.jpg
>>>
>>> http://www.TomandRodna.com/Photos/Moscow/MHS_1914_Ads_09.jpg
>>>
>>> http://www.TomandRodna.com/Photos/Moscow/MHS_1914_Ads_10.jpg
>>>
>>> ---------------------------------------
>>>
>>> As I remarked to Bill London a few years ago . . . "I may not have been
>>> born here in Moscow, but I got here as fast as I could."
>>>
>>> Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .
>>>
>>> "Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)
>>> http://www.MoscowCares.com <http://www.moscowcares.com/>
>>>
>>> Tom Hansen
>>> Moscow, Idaho
>>>
>>>
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