Category Archives: Idaho

A Black Horse!

Video July 13, 2025 Hutchins AAron

A Chevy 3100 pickup arrived at the Oldies Rod & Custom car show (for the Pocatello Senior Activity Center), and it’s not the first time I’ve seen this dark horse from 1956.

My video:

Watch my 14th SAC Show YouTube ‘Long-Form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bObs4PL234

My ‘short-form’ YouTube pickup video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fKGKxMpkJfk

The ‘SAC show’ was held on 14JUN2025.

Two in one?: Old Timers, twins?

August 2024: Hydramatic Task Force!

Idaho

Celebrate Blackfoot, 2025!

Video July 11, 2025 Hutchins AAron

The City of Blackfoot held its Celebrate Blackfoot (aka Blackfoot Pride Days) event, 27-28JUN2025. The event has been a yearly thing for more than a decade (except during the hyperbolic ‘pland-emic’). Note that Chamber of Commerce officials estimate that between 8-thousand and 10-thousand people attend the annual event and consider the City has an official federal Census population of only 13,380!

Red Bus escaped Scotland to live as a refugee in Idaho?

Most everybody loves firetrucks:

My ‘short-form’ YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/sBFxw-TlZOw

Many, many years ago the celebration supposedly started out as a community clean-up day, then evolved into three days of various events. Sometime in the late two thousand teens (maybe in 2020? Pland-emic times) the name was changed from Blackfoot Pride Days to Celebrate Blackfoot.

Normally, the events center around the pond known as Jensen Grove and of course involves several water-sporting events, but not this year. There was so much water running high and fast in the nearby Snake River that the diversion dam, which feeds Jensen Grove, was undermined and had to be shutdown.

The only water in the pond is coming from a local canal which doesn’t provide enough to fill Jensen Grove. The City estimates it’ll cost them short of $200-thousand to fix the diversion dam.

Hungry?:

There was still a lot of vendors (especially food), a cool car show…

and of course the fireworks show!

After the fireworks the mass exodus begins.

Red Bus attempts another escape!

Watch my ‘long form’ YouTube videos:

Idaho

Old Timers, twins?

Video July 11, 2025 Hutchins AAron

A couple of old Fords showed up at the Oldies Rod & Custom car show (for the Pocatello Senior Activity Center), and they could have been twins.

The ‘SAC show’ was held on 14JUN2025.

The two Fords are owned by one family.

My quick walkaround video:

Watch my 14th SAC Show YouTube ‘Long-Form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bObs4PL234

When was the last time you paid less than $900 for a new car?

My Old-Timer ‘short-form’ YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IlMjgm-H9uQ

Muscle:

An SS in a red dress?

Idaho

Squire, fetch me horse!

Video July 10, 2025 Hutchins AAron

I must ride forth to the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, Idaho, a car show and barbeque to honor our fellow veterans.

My walkaround video:

My long YouTube car-show video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nanJagZ4CLE

My ‘short’ YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Rg6US_g7Gno

Previously observed inside a local shopping mall that is no more (it looks black but it isn’t):

Spring Auto-Fest: T-Buckets!

Dodge:

A veteran pickup in a show for Veterans.

Idaho

An SS in a red dress?

Video July 10, 2025 Hutchins AAron

1970 Chevrolet Chevelle Super Sport.

It’s called the Oldies Rod & Custom car show for the Pocatello Senior Activity Center (SAC), this year it was held on 14JUN2025.

My quick video:

Watch my 14th SAC Show YouTube ‘Long-Form’ video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bObs4PL234

My ‘short-form’ YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/t-WklQ6g9TE

From the Land of Oz?: Green (with envy) ’63 Impala!

Idaho

A veteran pickup in a show for Veterans.

Video July 10, 2025 Hutchins AAron

In 1939, Dodge created what would be known as Job Rated pickup trucks. Starting with the T series, then the V, then the W, right through the end of World War Two and beyond to 1947.

The militaries of Australia, Canada and the United States had their own versions. In Australia and Canada they were sold under the Fargo brand.

On 14JUN2025, the Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, Idaho, put on a car show and barbeque to honor veterans.

My quick video:

My long YouTube car-show video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nanJagZ4CLE

My ‘short’ YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j94LtM0ofq0

The Commander:

Studebaker Gangster!

Idaho, U.S.

When the Bold Tigers turned Idaho Falls Airport into a military base!

Video July 8, 2025 Hutchins AAron

In October 2024, the 391st ‘Bold Tigers’ Fighter Squadron (part of the larger 366th ‘Gunfighters’ Fighter Wing, based on Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho) used the Idaho Falls (IF) Regional Airport to conduct ‘combat turn’ training.

A Bold Tiger lifts-off from the Magic Valley Regional Airport in Twin Falls, Idaho, after undergoing maintenance.

The IF airport wasn’t the only place the Bold Tigers conducted their combat turns. The wargame called Raging Gunfighter takes place at various locations throughout the U.S. Mountain West, for approximately ten days.

A Bold Tiger sits on the flightline of Wendover Airfield, Utah.

The scenario is worse-case; a ‘near-peer’ war (World War Three) has started and the F-15E Strike Eagle units must be able to deploy anywhere, as well as rearm and refuel upon landing then immediately take-off, this is known as a combat turn.

On Wendover Airfield, Utah, the 366th Civil Engineer Squadron was tasked with the hasty set up of a forward operating base, with 58 tents, 32 generators, 72 HVAC units, 36 showers, 36 latrines, plus attended to 96 work orders.

Also on Wendover, the 366th Security Forces Squadron conducted medical evacuation training.

Back on the IF airport, the 366th Communications Squadron practiced with their PRC-117G satellite communicator.

Bold Tiger F-15E Strike Eagles took off from Mountain Home AFB (possibly Magic Valley Airport in Southern Idaho), in Southwestern Idaho (I edited from video released by the 366th FW):