Mychel Matthews

Twin Falls

Reporter at Times-News (Idaho)

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2 months ago | magicvalley.com | Mychel Matthews

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OVER THE YEARS

Mar 22, 2025 | magicvalley.com | Mychel Matthews

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Lind Automobile Co. | Over the years

Feb 1, 2025 | magicvalley.com | Mychel Matthews

In 1909, Carl E. Lind, opened the first car dealership in Twin Falls — Lind Automobile Co. — on Second Avenue South, after selling Buicks in Newman Grove, Nebraska. Lind, 30, sold the first of his inventory of Buicks to S.H. Bolton, according to an article in the March 26, 1909, edition of the Twin Falls News. In 1915, 618 cars were registered in Twin Falls County. By 1918, the number had grown to 3,520.
The Paris Building | Over the years

Jan 25, 2025 | idahostatesman.com | Mychel Matthews

Paris Building 1982The Paris Building is seen in 1982 on Main Avenue North in Twin Falls. Earl and Hazel Faulkner opened The Paris Department Store in January 1952. Now known as the Paris Building, the old Smith building once boasted the largest dance floor in southern Idaho. The two-story, red-brick behemoth now houses Slice, Yoi Mi Japanese Steakhouse and Canyon Rim Crafts and Boutique on Main Avenue North in Twin Falls.
The Paris Building | Over the years

Jan 25, 2025 | magicvalley.com | Mychel Matthews

Now known as the Paris Building, the old Smith building once boasted the largest dance floor in southern Idaho. The two-story, red-brick behemoth now houses Slice, Yoi Mi Japanese Steakhouse and Canyon Rim Crafts and Boutique on Main Avenue North in Twin Falls. C.M. Smith, one of the village’s first trustees and later a Twin Falls city councilman, and partner W.P. Rice first built the center section, then each added an extension of the building at opposite ends.
Ferry crossings | Over the years

Jan 19, 2025 | idahostatesman.com | Mychel Matthews

Shoshone Falls FerryThe Shoshone Falls Ferry, built by Charles Walgamott and partner Emerson Stone, is seen in about 1910. The ferry was cabled about 300 yards above the brink of the falls. The wide and mighty Snake River has long been a barrier to north-south travel in south-central Idaho. Many lives were claimed at river crossings on the Oregon Trail before bridges were built in the 20th century.
Over the years, Ferries in the Magic Valley

Jan 18, 2025 | magicvalley.com | Mychel Matthews

The wide and mighty Snake River has long been a barrier to north-south travel in south-central Idaho. Many lives were claimed at river crossings on the Oregon Trail before bridges were built in the 20th century.
Downtown Twin Falls | Over the years

Jan 3, 2025 | magicvalley.com | Mychel Matthews

Close examination of a Clarence E. Bisbee photo of a parade on what was then Second Street reveals a rare moment in Twin Falls. The street — now Gooding Street — was unpaved, even though the paving of Twin Falls streets started in 1910. Only two buildings sat at Second Street and Main Avenue: the 1909 Consolidated Wagon and Machinery Co. building (now the Magic Valley Bible Church) and Twin Falls founder I.B. Perrine’s Light and Power building (now Mi Tierra Mexican Restaurant).
OVER THE YEARS, Minidoka Internment Camp

Dec 27, 2024 | magicvalley.com | Mychel Matthews

Driven by wartime hysteria after Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government rounded up some 13,000 Americans of Japanese descent and “relocated” them from their homes on the West Coast to a desolate internment camp in south-central Idaho.
The Twin Falls | Over the years

Dec 20, 2024 | magicvalley.com | Mychel Matthews

Several miles above Shoshone Falls on the Snake River is the waterfall for which the city of Twin Falls is named. Visitors to Twin Falls Park, operated by Idaho Power Co., may wonder about the name, since only one waterfall exists now. But before the power company constructed a power plant at the site, two waterfalls — and sometimes, during abundant water years, three waterfalls — were visible from downstream.