IDAHO FALLS — EastIdahoNews.com is looking back at what life was like during the week of Sept. 8 to Sept. 14 in east Idaho history.

1900-1925

BLACKFOOT — A skylight fell in a local hardware store, but nobody was standing under it when it came crashing down, The Bingham County News reported on Sept. 9, 1921.

The skylight fell inside the Neil F. Boyle Hardware store and damaged washing machines and cream separators.

“As luck would have it, none of the employees or customers were standing or walking beneath the skylight at the time it fell,” the paper mentioned. “If it had fallen on anyone, there is little doubt that there would have been fatalities as a result.”

The glass was almost a half-inch thick. It’s not clear how much it weighed, but it was heavy enough to crush the wooden parts

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