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Pine Ridge Mall-South Wing: Motorcycles!

It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.

A small gang of hogs, sporty choppers, and even an Italian spy posing as a Harley, infiltrated the South Wing of the Pine Ridge Mall, in Chubbuck, Idaho, during its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show.

Videos by me.

Bopper Chopper:

Wanted Hog:

AMF Aermacchi ‘Sportster’ Z90:

Police Hog:

Pine Ridge Mall, inaugural indoor Winter/New Year car show: SOUTH WING!

Pine Ridge Mall-North Wing: Lil’ Red Express Truck

It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.

1979 Dodge Adventurer 150, video by me:

Due to some instigation (possibly by a secret society of conspiratorial automotive Sith Lords posing as Jedi Masters), the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show.

Pine Ridge Mall Inaugural Indoor Winter/New Year Car Show: North Wing! 

Pine Ridge Mall-Center Court: SLAMMED PROSTREET FORD RANGER

Pine Ridge Mall-Center Court: 1949 ford F-1 pickup truck

All the way from Connecticut?

Due to some instigation (possibly by a secret society of conspiratorial automotive Sith Lords posing as Jedi Masters), the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show.

It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.  Video by me:

Pine Ridge Mall-Center Court:

THINGS ARE GETTING HOSTILE!

Pine Ridge Mall-Center Court: Inaugural indoor Winter/New Year Car Show!

Due to some instigation (possibly by a secret society of conspiratorial automotive enthusiasts), the Pine Ridge Mall in Chubbuck, Idaho, held its inaugural indoor Winter/New Year automobile show.  It was the weekend of January 13th & 14th, 2024.

One of the possible conspirators, practicing his Jedi Mind Tricks on some mall-goers!

I worked for the original owner of the Pine Ridge Mall during the few years before it was sold to the second owner, an evil global corporation based in Chicago, and we used to have car and RV displays during the warmer months of the year.  But, the evil second owner killed everything off!  The Pine Ridge Mall is on its third owner, supposedly a family company based in Saint Louis, Missouri, which specializes in bringing back depressed malls. The third owners have been working hard to slowly bring in new businesses, and they gave their blessings on this inaugural Winter/New Year indoor auto-show (with a possibility for more car shows!).

CENTER COURT:

Pine Ridge Mall: THE CAR SHOW INSTIGATOR! AND HIS STEED, THE MIDNIGHT CORVETTE!

My Idaho; Pathetic Pland-emic 4th of July, 2020!

Photo by Aryssa M. Hutchins.

Due to the Pland-emic Paranoia, Bannock County administrators canceled the yearly fireworks show, but I showed them!

The fireworks were found in this 25mm High-Explosive Tracer ammo case. Photo by AAron B. Hutchins.

Me and my middle daughter Aryssa decided to try out the decades old fireworks we found on my father’s estate in California, in February 2019. 

The proper use of your empties.

It ended with me trying to blow-up one of my BBQ grills. Video by Aryssa M. Hutchins:

Are fireworks the true ‘Fountain of Youth’?

Chubbuck Days, 2023: 1979 Corvette L82, decade old ‘veteran’ of the show!

This 1979 Chevy L82 Corvette has appeared at many Chubbuck Days car shows, the first time I saw it was in 2010.  It took part in the return of the car show at the 12AUG2023 Chubbuck Days, in Cotant Park, Chubbuck, Idaho.

I’ve been attending Chubbuck Days since 1998, the previous Chubbuck Days car show was in 2016, with much reduced participation and many of the vehicles being for sale.

Chubbuck days, 2023: SKULL-T-ROD

After 2016, the so-called neighborhood improvement projects blocked access to Cotant Park, along with the park’s playground and tennis courts being ripped-up and replaced by a parking lot (also, the substitute park chosen for Chubbuck Days was too small to accommodate a car show), with the projects completed just in time for the ‘Pland-emic’ Paranoia which resulted in the cancelation of all local public events.

Chubbuck Days, 2016: MASS BAPTISM BY FIRE….TRUCK!

CAR SHOW & HELICOPTER FORCED LANDING

Pocatello Airport Car Show, 2014:

Ole Blue was there!

Chubbuck Days, 2010:

1979 L82 Chevy Corvette

See the first photos I made of the 1979 L82 Corvette.

Chubbuck Days, Hot Rods return for 2023: Skull-T-Rod

I’ve been attending Chubbuck Days since 1998, the previous Chubbuck Days car show was in 2016, with much reduced participation and many of the vehicles being for sale.

Ford T-Bucket at this year’s (11-12AUG2023) Chubbuck Days:

After 2016, the so-called neighborhood improvement projects blocked access to Cotant Park, along with the park’s playground and tennis courts being ripped-up and replaced by a parking lot (also, the substitute park chosen for Chubbuck Days was too small to accommodate a car show), with the projects completed just in time for the ‘Pland-emic’ Paranoia which resulted in the cancelation of all local public events.

Chubbuck Days, 2016: MASS BAPTISM BY FIRE….TRUCK!

CAR SHOW & HELICOPTER FORCED LANDING

2012:

Things got too hot for this portable toilet.

BUSIEST CHUBBUCK DAYS EVER; DOGS, CARS, FIRE TRUCKS, HAMMERS, POLES, FOOD, MUSIC & VANDALISM!

The 2012 car show (which was the 6th car show for Chubbuck Days) was so big I had to divide my photo essay into a Part 1 and Part 2!

I first started posting photos of the Chubbuck Days car show in 2010.

Hunger Games U.S.A.: Pocatello SAC show, June 2023.

On 10JUN2023, the Oldies Rod & Custom Car Show was held in Historic Oldtown Pocatello, Idaho, to benefit the Senior Activity Center‘s (SAC) food delivery service: “It’s the people that we serve are underserved in our community. And so, it really helps with the nutrition for them so that they can hopefully stay in their homes longer and with activities and everything else. That’s part of our goal to.”-Pam Landon, Secretary for SAC

The automobile show was free to the public, proceeds from food vender sales, and raffle ticket sales, went to help SAC.  Just to let you know how much the help is needed, in 2022 the Pocatello SAC served more than 22-thousand meals to local old people.

Here is a sampling of the vehicles that were there (click on each image to make them bigger):

Walk around video of the show, which was supported by many local business sponsors, most of the video has no audio as they were blaring copyrighted music at the event:

For more SAC show videos, check-out my YouTube channel.

Apparently, the first Oldies Rod & Custom Car Show to benefit Pocatello SAC was on 10JUN2018.

For information about upcoming auto-shows around Idaho, visit United Street Rods of Idaho.

Chubbuck Days in Cotant Park, August 2016:

Helicopter ride forced down in neighboring Chase Park, due to too many passengers for the little ‘copter! (note the dejected riders walking away from their ride)

CAR SHOW & HELICOPTER FORCED LANDING

Pocatello Airport, August 2014: FREE CAR SHOW TO GO WITH THE FREE AIRSHOW!

Busiest Chubbuck Days ever, August 2012:

Things got too hot for this portable toilet.

DOGS, CARS, FIRE TRUCKS, HAMMERS AND POLES BEING THROWN AROUND, PLUS FOOD, MUSIC & VANDALISM CHUBBUCK STYLE!

Chubbuck Days, 2010:

Free Car Show!

Planed-emic, 2020: SOUTHEAST IDAHO PANDEMIC ROAD-TRIP

Housing Boom Insanity: Despite impending crash, Idaho’s housing construction set to explode!

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It has been established that there are not many good paying, steady, long term jobs spread across The Gem State, and that there isn’t a lot of available land for private ownership, resulting in a low population, and that there has been plenty of house construction since the end  of the 1990s.  In other words, sparse population due to lack of decent long term jobs (90% of the population growth has been in the Boise Metro Area), and decades of house building actually resulting in a glut of houses.  Yet, housing rental prices and purchase prices are too high.   This is the excuse that local municipalities and property developers are using to justify the approval, and acceleration, of massive residential construction projects.

For proof here is a list of links to articles (just the tip of the iceberg) proclaiming new housing projects, and reporting on housing cost problems, across Idaho, from the past month:

Yet another huge housing development project for tiny Southeastern Idaho city of Chubbuck!  The U.S. Census says Chubbuck’s population is just under 16-thousand!  Over the decades, the poverty rate has been consistently between 10% and 15%, in other words, all the actions of the local leaders have done nothing to drop the poverty rate!

Utah property developer to build massive 40 acres (16 hectares) housing rental operation in Caldwell, news media says it is “much needed”!  U.S. Census says Caldwell’s population is under 57-thousand!

Nearly 3-thousand house development announced, next to golf course near Kuna!  The U.S. Census says the population of Kuna is just under 21-thousand!

Sparsely populated Elmore County approves development that promises to build enough homes for more than 5-thousand people!  The U.S. Census says the population of Elmore County is only about 27-thousand!

Announced; three more massive apartment complexes for the Boise Metro Area, and yes, another promise of low income housing!

Revealed; despite promises of constructing affordable houses, in the Boise Metro Area, the data proves that property developers actually build more expensive houses!

Despite the decades of promises of affordable housing by developers, the National Low Income Housing Coalition says Idaho still needs more than 20-thousand low income residences, lists more than 42-thousand Idahoans as being “extremely low income renters”!  Mirroring a problem across the United States.  The entire population of Idaho is about 1.9-million!

Federal government expanding low income housing vouchers for poor people in the Boise Metro Area.

Revealed; more than 4-hundred Boise Metro Area homes are actually owned by California speculators/investors!

Naïve Christian church in Nampa gives away, yes gives away, more than 3-thousand square feet of land so that one affordable house can be built!  U.S. Census says the population of Nampa is under 97-thousand!

Coeur d’Alene considering annexing county land for massive housing project, which will build more than 4-thousand homes over the next 20 years!  The U.S. Census says the city of Coeur d’Alene has a population of about 51-thousand!

Idaho State Rural Development and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Development took part in the first ever Idaho Rural Success Summit in Twin Falls.  U.S. Census says population of Twin Falls is under 50-thousand!

“Boise in full fledged housing crash”

Boise first in the U.S. to see housing price bust?

The Land Trust of the Treasure Valley is trying to to raise enough money to buy-out hundreds of acres of “prime real estate” for the express purpose of halting any future development!

Idaho Housing & Finance injects $7.2-million in additional mortgage back securities into the General Indenture of Trust, because the asset to debt ratio of the Trust has been declining!

Ada County area real estate agent says the number of actual available units are flat despite all the construction, and predicts inventory will actually go down, which means rents and prices will stay high.  Reveals a disturbing trend that was insignificant before 2008 and is also the cause of high prices; residential Institutional Buyers, aka Investors/Speculators, who outbid families trying to buy a home:

Proof that your government wants a revolving door housing market, the Idaho Department of Labor blames high prices on home owners/renters staying in their homes longer than previous generations: “The recent decline in Idaho’s existing housing inventory has been driven by a decline in homeowner and renter mobility. This means that the supply of existing housing is declining as a result of households owning or renting longer than they did in the past.”

Does this imply that the government will find ways to force people out of their homes to facilitate ‘development’? It has happened before!

U.S. Housing Collapse:  NO MORE ‘MY IMMIGRANT IDAHO’, MASS EXODUS BEGINS!