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( K i n g s P i n e s o f I d a h o , b y G r a c e J o r d a n ) I n A p r i l o f 1 9 4 2 , t h e Y a c h t C l u b b u r n e d , l e a v i n g
a d i s m a l g a p i n t h e m a i n p a r t o f t o w n . T h e l u m b e r t o r e b u i l d c a l l e d f o r t o o g r e a t a s t r e t c h
o f i m a g i n a t i o n f o r t h e p r i o r i t i e s o f t h e t o w n s p e o p l e d u r i n g t h e W o r l d W a r e f f o r t .
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b o a t s m o o r e d a t t h e d o c k s b u r n e d . T h e r e w a s d e t e r m i n a t i o n t o r e b u i l d . I t w a s r e b u i l t i n
1 9 4 5 , w h e n b u i l d i n g m a t e r i a l s w e r e a g a i n a v a i l a b l e . O f b r i c k i t w a s b u i l t t h i s t i m e , s o
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f o r t h e o p e n i n g . B e s i d e s l o d g i n g s , t h e C l u b h a d a d i n i n g r o o m t h a t r e a c h e d t o t h e l a k e ' s
e d g e a n d a d a n c e f l o o r .
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t h e 1 9 2 0 s a s a r o o m i n g h o u s e . T h e P e a b o d y H o t e l a n d t h e B r u n d a g e H o t e l , o w n e d b y
W i l l i a m D e i n h a r d , w e r e t h e h o t e l s t h a t h a d b e e n b u i l t a f e w y e a r s b e f o r e t h e Y a c h t C l u b .
M o s t o f t h e M c C a l l 2 n d A d d i t i o n w a s o p e n l a n d . T h e Y a c h t C l u b w a s b u i l t a g a i n i n 1 9 4 5
( a f t e r t h e f i r e o f 1 9 4 2 ) b y a m a n f r o m L e w i s t o n , n a m e d C l i f f H i n k l e y . H e h a d a b a r a n d
r e s t a u r a n t a n d a f e w r o o m s . A l s o a f e w g i r l s . I n 1 9 9 6 , a l o c a l c o n t r a c t o r , C h r i s K i r k ,
" c o m p l e t e l y r e b u i l t t h e Y a c h t C l u b t h a t h a d b e e n b u i l t i n 1 9 4 5 . H e r e p l u m b e d i t w i t h
c o m p l e t e l y n e w p l u m b i n g , a n d i n d o i n g s o , f o u n d s e v e r a l d i a m o n d a n d g o l d r i n g s i n t h e
t r a p s o f t h e p l u m b i n g l o s t i n t h e o l d d a y s .
T h e r e w a s g a m b l i n g a t t h e Y a c h t C l u b a n d t h e D o g H o u s e . Y o u c o u l d p l a y r o u l e t t e f o r
f i v e c e n t s . T h e r e w e r e a l s o s l o t m a c h i n e s . T h e f i r s t Y a c h t C l u b b u r n e d a l o n g w i t h t h e
W i l l i a m s - M a y S t o r e , t h e B r u n d a g e H o t e l , t h e b a n k , P a g e ' s t h e a t e r a n d M a r y A n n ' s
B a k e r y n e x t t o L a k e S t r e e t S t a t i o n .
( S t a r N e w s a r t i c l e o f A p r i l 2 , 1 9 4 2 ) D i s c o v e r e d a t 5 : O O a m b y M a r t h a P e a b o d y , t h e
o w n e r , t h e s i r e n b e g a n b l o w i n g t o c a l l o u t a l l a v a i l a b l e p e r s o n n e l . T h e I d a h o Y a c h t C l u b
b u i l d i n g w h i c h h o u s e d s e v e r a l b u s i n e s s e s w a s a ( r a i l r o a d ) t i e s t r u c t u r e w i t h s t u c c o
e x t e r i o r . T h e f i r e b e g a n i n t h e b a s e m e n t a n d b u r n e d t h e w h o l e b u i l d i n g t o t h e g r o u n d .
A l l c o n t e n t s w e r e d e s t r o y e d . T h e b a s e m e n t h a d b e e n a s t o r a g e p l a c e f o r m o t o r b o a t s . A
( s o d a ) f o u n t a i n o n t h e m a i n f l o o r w a s a l s o d e s t r o y e d .
O n e s i d e o f t h e Y a c h t C l u b w a s o c c u p i e d b y a b o w l i n g a l l e y o w n e d b y R a l p h P a r i s .
M a r g a r e t ' s B e a u t y S a l o n o n t h e o t h e r s i d e w a s a c o m p l e t e l o s s . T h e t o p f l o o r o f t h e
b u i l d i n g h o u s e d a d a n c e p a v i l i o n . P a r t o f t h e b a s e m e n t w a s a c a r p e n t r y s h o p . T h e
b u i l d i n g w a s s t u r d i l y b u i l t o f t i e s w i t h a s t u c c o f i n i s h . I t w a s a v e r y a t t r a c t i v e b u i l d i n g
v a l u e d a t $ 8 0 0 0 . 0 0 w i t h n o i n s u r a n c e . M r . S m y t h e , w h o o w n e d t h e b o a t s , s t i l l h a s t h e
f i l l i n g s t a t i o n n e x t d o o r , t h e b o a t d o c k s a n d t h e b e a c h . T h e y w i l l b e r e a d y f o r t h e s e a s o n
" o f b o a t i n g a n d b o a t r e n t a l s . T h e f i r e d i d n o t s p r e a d t o s u r r o u n d i n g b u i l d i n g s .
(Interview with Roy Smythe, 29595 Boynton Lane, Sun City, CA 92586) From 1938-
• 1942, Roy's father, also Roy Smythe, owned the business of the Yacht Club boat
concession and the Sportland on the first floor. Mrs. Peabody owned the Yacht Club
building. The Sportland included a soda fountain, pool tables, game machines and, back
towards the lake, a dance floor. This was in 1938 -1942. The family had owned a boat
business in Seattle featuring "classy" inboard racing boats. They brought to McCall
some of these same brands of boats for his concession's use. They also had smaller boats
for rent. His father gave scenic boat rides, both short ones and long ones as part of his
business. He also owned a fuel depot on the lake. Under the Yacht Club was boat
storage for his boats and privately owned boats that he stored. The boats were brought
from the building across the sand to the lake on a cog rail. There was not a channel or
slip. Mr. Smythe was planning a multi- storey hotel where the McCall Mall is currently,
that would have included a boat channel from the lake to the boat works and repair
facility under the hotel. However, he did not have insurance for his business. When the
fire occurred, his finances were "wiped out" and, with that, his dreams for the new hotel.
Under the Yacht Club within the boat concession, there was the woodworking shop of a
Norwegian craftsman. Roy could not remember the carpenter's name, but Roy's father
and this Norwegian not only made repairs to boats, but built a fairly large cruiser in that
shop. The fire was ignited in the boat storage and quickly spread to this carpentry shop
and then engulfed the building.
The Yacht Club's top floor rotunda had a bar and Las Vegas -type gambling. Idaho had
• "county rule" gambling: if a county approved of having gambling by vote, it was legal.
There were a number of bars with gambling in McCall at this time. As a teenager, Roy
was forbidden to go up to the top floor rotunda. His job as a boy at that time was to go
before school to start the furnace fire. It was wood -fired at that time. Ducting took the
heat throughout the building and was used year round.
The Yacht Club in McCall was crowded on 4th of July and all summer weekends. As the
snow came about six weeks earlier in McCall than Sun Valley, the expert skiers came to
stay in McCall for those weeks. They would stay in private homes or hotels, skiing
during the day but partying a night. The Yacht Club's bar and gambling was always an
attraction.
The third floor had a cupola or rounded room. The front had glass windows all across.
Margaret's Beauty Shop was to the left in the front across from the soda fountain and
game room. This Shop was operated by Margaret Carrey, Brad Carrey's daughter. There
was no front entrance to the lower area; that entrance was from the west. From the lake,
the repair area had open access.
(Interview with Keith Holloway, the current Yacht Club owner; 800 367 6406.) He is
the owner of Western Health Care based in Boise, Idaho. He and his wife bought the
Yacht Club in 1996 after it had been remodeled by Chris Kirk. It was a sentimental
• investment for them as their first honeymoon dinner had been in the Yacht Club
restaurant. There were fond memories associated with the building. In 2004, Bob Hunt,
• owner of the Hunt Lodge hotel in McCall and David Eaton, owner of the radio station,
KMCL, came to him and proposed a purchase of the property. They planned at that time
to build a hotel and convention center on the lot to the west of the Yacht Club, then
owned by Thomas Kalange. Mr. Hunt had an option to buy Mr. Kalange's property and
proposed an option on the Yacht Club property if his designs were approved by the city.
The Holloways finally agreed to a purchase option extending to March of 2008. The
Holloways thought that the Yacht Club building would be included within the planned
hotel /convention center. Initial plans and conversations have shown that Mr. Hunt's
intent is to raze the Yacht Club building and to build new structures over both lots. The
Holloways have voiced their concern to Mr. Hunt. The only memorabilia they would
want would be the sailboat in Romano's restaurant on the lower level. It would help their
feelings is some of the structural materials could be used in the new buildings.
(Conversation with Robert Hunt, owner of the Hunt Lodge in McCall) He has now
purchased Thomas Kalange's lot and is working with his architects on plans for a hotel,
restaurant and retail shops that would encompass both that lot and the Yacht Club
property. The new city code makes this a difficult project, but he hopes to exercise the
option on the Yacht Club property. I informed him that the Carl Brown house to the west
of Mr. Kalange's lot has been nominated as a historic property and that care should be
taken with the height of roofline and setback from that property. I also told him that this
nomination for the Yacht Club site was being made. If it were approved, he would like to
• have a plaque noting the historic site placed on the hotel. I asked if any part of the Yacht
Club would be incorporated in the new building, such as timbers or bricks. He would
consider that.
(Interview with Marie Blackwell Strode, a longtime resident of McCall) Her cousin,
Tom Carrey married Mrs. Peabody when his first wife, Jenny, died. Mrs. Peabody was a
widow, who owned the Peabody Hotel and Lola's restaurant across Lake Street from the
Yacht Club. She bought the Yacht Club building in 1939. After the fire in 1942, she
sold the property to Mary Mende, Tom Carrey's granddaughter, and her husband Roy.
They in turn sold it to Clifford Hinkley, the husband of George Strode's sister, Clara,
from Lewiston. Brad Carrey, Tom's son, was a silent partner in this transaction. They
built the second Yacht Club in 1945 -6. Mary and Roy Mende managed the whole Yacht
Club building, which included a hotel with its lobby in the front east corner, a bar, lunch
room and a large restaurant overlooking the lake. This was beautifully furnished with
white linen and an elegant menu. Mary and Roy had no children, but they hired family
members to work in the restaurant. Marie's son, Kenneth, worked there as a boy,
standing on a box to wash dishes. Her daughter, Georgina, was the "salad girl ". Evelyn
Gehrig had a beauty salon on the front west corner. Brad Carrey's other daughter,
Margaret, had a beauty shop in Mrs. Peabody's hotel and later came to have the one in
the Yacht Club. Behind the beauty shop, there were two rooms and upstairs there were
rooms. The Yacht Club was the nicest place to dine in McCall and had many social
• occasions. Mary Mende served as the very welcoming restaurant hostess.
The first Yacht Club had a flat roof with a cupola on top, so a similar design was
used for the second building. The first was built of railroad ties and was surfaced
with off -white stucco. Marie remembered hearing that the first Yacht Club
building had been built as a rooming house. Mr. Bates also housed his newspaper
there. The brick facing of the second building was used to prevent another fire
from spreading to that building.
(Interview with Chris Kirk, who had remodeled the Yacht Club building in 1996.)
The second Yacht Club building has had many changes, some were cosmetic and
two were extensive. The Chase family added many nautical treatments when they
owned the building. Jeff Stoddard extensively remodeled and added the many
exterior nautical touches in 1989. Mr. Kirk found a dingy, rundown bar with no
access to the second floor. There were eleven abandoned apartments.
They removed four ceilings from earlier remodelings and gutted most of the
building. In doing so they found old newspapers and mill -ends used for
insulation. A new electrical system, new plumbing system, and new forced air
heating system were installed. The original furnace in that second Yacht Club
was coal- fired; coal was delivered to the front of the building and was loaded into
a coal room under the front sidewalk. The coal was then accessed from the
furnace room.
• The old Chinese restaurant in the basement was not touched. A light well was
added to the roof with a cupola. The split stairway to upstairs and the offices
were added. The front sidewalk was raised more to make a ramp for wheelchair
use. An entry on the west side into the downstairs was added and the alley paved
on the old water and sewer right -of -way. There was no undercroft for boat
storage facing the lake. The existing dock was built by the Gilberts in the summer
of 1989. The Lake Street fagade was changed to have the center entry doors and
the doors to the east and west of the center doors. A concrete fagade trim was
added to give the brick exterior a more finished design. Existing windows on the
east side were walled in and covered with matching brick. Mr. Kirk estimates that
about 2/3 of the building was remodeled.
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Scotch Whiskies
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The crew at Romano's Restaurant, located in the Yacht Club Building, include, from left, Management
Assistant Diane Bub, new owner Sue Goodell - Poulson and chefs Dennis Babineau and Lisa Davis.
b; Yacht Club sells
new owner takes Romano's
The Yacht Club Building in down-
town McCall has been sold, as has
Romano's Restaurant inside the build-
ing.
The Yacht Club building was origi-
nally purchased and remodeled by
Jeff Stoddard in 1989 and currently
houses Romano's Restaurant, the
Yacht Club Lounge and various other
retail, service and office facilities.
Stoddard has a home on Payette Lake
in McCall and will maintain that resi-
dence.
The new owners, Keith and Delta
Holloway, are Idaho natives who now
live in Boise and have recently pur-
chased a lakefront home in McCall.
The Holloways are excited about be-
coming a part of this community,
building manager Hal Sager said.
No major changes are planned for
the Yacht Club Building. One retail
space and two office spaces are cur-
rently available to rent for anyone
who would like a prime downtown
location to have an office or a shop.
Call Sager at 634 -2728.
Sager and his wife, Jane, have had
a good working relationship with
Stoddard and look forward to work-
ing with the Holloways as they begin
their new venture in the McCall com-
munity.
Ownership of Romano's has trans-
ferred from the Sagers, the previous
owners, to Sue Goodell - Poulson, who
has been manager since the restaurant
opened in 1991. In the past five years,
Romano's (formerly The Yacht Club
Restaurant) has become one of
McCall' s most popular dinner houses,
particularly when the deck is open for
lakeside dining in the summer.
No immediate changes are planned
for the restaurant which features a
fine Italian menu including chicken,
veal, fish and a wide variety of pasta
dishes. Prices will remain the same,
from $6.95 to $15.95, and, as always,
all meals are cooked fresh to order.
Romano's also has an extensive
American menu. There is also a full
lounge and bar. The atmosphere is
casual, but appealing with many un-
usual decor items.
The Sagers have been pleased with
Goodell - Poulson's management in the
past and feel she has earned the op-
portunity to own the restaurant. They
are also confident she will maintain
the high standards that have been es-
tablished since the restaurant opened.
The Romano's team, including
Management Assistant Diane Bub,
and chefs Lisa Davis and Dennis
Babineau, will continue to offer the
same fine service always provided by
this successful restaurant.
The Sagers will remain involved
with the restaurant for a while to as-
sure the changeover is accomplished
while keeping its high standards.
Hunt settles Yacht Club lawsuit;
lakeside hotel still on hold
BY MICHAEL WELLS
The Star-News
Local hotel owner and
developer Bob Hunt is the
new owner of The Yacht
Club property along Payette
Lake in downtown McCall
after a lawsuit settlement
agreement between Hunt
and previous Yacht Club
property owner Keith Hol-
loway.
Hunt had sued Holloway
in July 2009 after Holloway
refused to allow Hunt to
exercise an option to buy the
proHunt hadlplans t ebuild
the Grand Payette Hotel on
the property and an adjacent
property to the west of The
Yacht Club by 2014.
The settlement terms
were not disclosed by Hunt.
Holloway did not respond to
requests by The Star -New
for an interview.
The leases held by the
Yacht Club Bar and Roma -
no's Italian restaurant have
three years remaining and
Hunt said he will honor the
lease agreements.
"I have to honor those and
Twill," he said.
The settlement lifted all
constraints that were pre-
viously on Hunt from the
original option agreement.
However, with today's
economy, construction of
the hotel is "wait and see,"
Hunt said.
"We have everything
in place," he said. "I have
not decided when I can
break ground due to the
economy."
Former plans for a con-
vention center at his Hunt
Lodge property on South
Third Street have also been
put on hold due to the econ-
omy, he said.
Star-News
Hunt also owns the Super
8 Motel and Western Moun-
tain Lodge in McCall.
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IDAHO HISTORIC SITES INVENTORY FORM - ATTACHMENT
PROPERTY NAME IMCCALL YACHT CLUB 1 IHSI# 1009
FIELD# 1009 1 COMMENTS: COUNTY NAME Ivalley
IDAHO HISTORIC SITES INVENTORY FORM —ATTACHMENT
I(Kings Pines of Idaho, by Grace Jordan) In April of 1942, the Yacht Club burned, leaving a dismal gap in the main part of
town. The lumber to rebuild called for too great a stretch of imagination for the priorities of the townspeople during the
World War effort.
IIt was a $50,000.00 loss for the building, but in addition $10,000.00 of privately owned boats moored at the docks burned.
There was determination to rebuild. It was rebuilt in 1945, when building materials were again available. Of brick it was
built this tirne, so that fire would not destroy it again.
In spring of 1946, newly opened, there was a theft from it and the Annex Club of $8,500.00 in merchandise. Of this,
$6,000.00 was of slot machines bought in preparation for the opening. Besides lodgings, the Club had a dining room that
reached to the lake's edge and a dance floor.
(It's Fun to Remember, by Warren Harrington Brown) The first Yacht Club was built in the 1920s as a rooming house.
The Peabody Hotel and the Brundage Hotel, owned by William Deinhard, were the hotels that had been built a few years
before the Yacht Club. Most of the McCall 2nd Addition was open land. The Yacht Club was built again in 1945 (after the
fire of 1942) by a man from Lewiston, named Cliff Hinkley. He had a bar and restaurant and a few rooms. Also a few
girls. In 1996, a local contractor, Chris Kirk, completely rebuilt the Yacht Club that had been built in 1945. He replumbed it
with completely new plumbing, and in doing so, found several diamond and gold rings in the traps of the plumbing lost in
the old days.
e was gambling at the Yacht Club and the Dog House. You could play roulette for five cents. There were also slot
hines. The first Yacht Club burned along with the Williams -May Store, the Brundage Hotel, the bank, Page's theater
Mary Ann's Bakery next to Lake Street Station.
u News article of April 2, 1942) Discovered at 5:00am by Martha Peabody, the owner, the siren began blowing to call
all available personnel. The Idaho Yacht Club building which housed several businesses was a (railroad) tie structure
stucco exterior. The fire began in the basement and burned the whole building to the ground. All contents were
troyed. The basement had been a storage place for motor boats. A (soda) fountain on the main floor was also
me side of the Yacht Club was occupied by a bowling alley owned by Ralph Paris. Margaret's Beauty Salon on the other
ide was a complete loss. The top floor of the building housed a dance pavilion. Part of the basement was a carpentry
hop. The building was sturdily built of ties with a stucco finish. It was a very attractive building valued at $8000.00 with
o insurance. Mr. Smythe, who owned the boats, still has the filling station next door, the boat docks and the beach. They
,ill be ready for the season of boating and boat rentals. The fire did not spread to surrounding buildings.
nterview, , vith Roy Smythe, 29595 Boynton Lane, Sun City, CA 92586) From 1938 -1942, Roy's father, also Roy Smythe,
wned the ousiness of the Yacht Club boat concession and the Sportland on the first floor. Mrs. Peabody owned the Yacht
:lub building. The Sportland included a soda fountain, pool tables, game machines and, back towards the lake, a dance
oor. This was in 1938 -1942. The family had owned a boat business in Seattle featuring "classy" inboard racing boats.
hey brought to McCall some of these same brands of boats for his concession's use. They also had smaller boats for
ant. His father gave scenic boat rides, both short ones and long ones as part of his business. He also owned a fuel depot
n the lake. Under the Yacht Club was boat storage for his boats and privately owned boats that he stored. The boats
Fere brought from the building across the sand to the lake on a cog rail. There was not a channel or slip. Mr. Smythe was
lanning a multi- storey hotel where the McCall Mall is currently, that would have included a boat channel from the lake to
ie boat works and repair facility under the hotel. However, he did not have insurance for his business. When the fire
ccurred, his finances were "wiped out" and, with that, his dreams for the new hotel.
Under the Yacht Club within the boat concession, there was the woodworking shop of a Norwegian craftsman. Roy could
(not remember the carpenter's name, but Roy's father and this Norwegian not only made repairs to boats, but built a fairly
large cruiser in that shop. The fire was ignited in the boat storage and quickly spread to this carpentry shop and then
engulfed the building.
The Yacht Club's top floor rotunda had a bar and Las Vegas -type gambling. Idaho had "county rule" gambling: if a county
approved of having gambling by vote, it was legal. There were a number of bars with gambling in McCall at this time. As
a teenager, Roy was forbidden to go up to the top floor rotunda. His job as a boy at that time was to go before school to
start the furnace fire. It was wood -fired at that time. Ducting took the heat throughout the building and was used year
round.
The Yacht Club in McCall was crowded on 4th of July and all summer weekends. As the snow came about six weeks
earlier in McCall than Sun Valley, the expert skiers came to stay in McCall for those weeks. They would stay in private
homes or hotels, skiing during the day but partying a night. The Yacht Club's bar and gambling was always an attraction.
The third floor had a cupola or rounded room. The front had glass windows all across. Margaret's Beauty Shop was to the
left in the font across from the soda fountain and game room. This Shop was operated by Margaret Carrey, Brad Carrey's
daughter. rhere was no front entrance to the lower area; that entrance was from the west. From the lake, the repair area
had open access.
(Interview with Keith Holloway, the current Yacht Club owner; 800 367 6406.) He is the owner of Western Health Care
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Neighbors Flying die Pizza and the
Yacht Club .join forces to bring you sit
down dining in fine style. Order your pizza
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Visitors to The Yacht Club Restaurant in downtown
McCall enjoy the newly remodeled Fireside Lounge
_
located inside the restaurant. The new lounge fea-
tures new, comfortable oak chairs and benches plus a
gas- powered fireplace made with river rock. "M2 the
summer, we have the lake and the patio to draw
customers, and we realized we needed a cozy, warm
place for the winter," restaurant owner Hal Sager
said. The Fireside Lounge is the perfect place to spend
sometime before heading into The Yacht Club Restau-
rant to sample its famous Italian - American menu. Or,
the lounge can- serve as. a meeting place after skiing,
snowmobiling or other winter recreation. The lounge
also features its own music system to set just the right
mood. The Fireside Lounge and Yacht Club Restau-
rant are open at-5:30 p.m.- daily except Sundays.
G Payette Grand Pa Hotel developer sues Yacht Club Building owner
1 for the destroyed then it needs to be for April.
Bob Hunt says
owner reneged on
promise to sell
BY MICHAEL WELLS
The Star -News
The developer of the pro-
posed Grand Payette Hotel in
downtown McCall has sued
the owner of The Yacht Club
Building, claiming the owner
reneged on a deal to sell the
building for the hotel site.
Develope�$,Bob Hunt has
sued Yac, Club Building
owner Keith Holloway for
fraud, breach of contract and
$1.5 million for not selling
the building to Hunt as a part
of the condo -hotel develop-
ment planned for the city's
lakefront.
No trial date has been set
on the lawsuit.
Holloway entered into an
option agreement in March
2004 with Hunt, who planned
to buy the Yacht Club property
and its liquor license as part of
Hunt's plans to build the hotel
on the property and a lot to the
west of the Yacht Club.
Hunt tried to buy the Yacht
Club building from Holloway
in April, but was rejected.
Negotiations between the two
went on for several months
without success, which led to
the lawsuit filing this summer,
Hunt said.
Hunt paid $10,000 per year
to keep his option to buy the
building as he made plans for
a hotel at the location. He also
spent more than $1 million on
design work and planning.
The lawsuit seeks to retrieve
the option agreement payments
of $50,000, costs associated with
preliminary approva s
planned hotel and convention
center, interest and other costs
associated with the purchase
of the adjacent property to the
Yacht Club, time spenton obtain-
ing approvals and lost profits.
The Grand Payette Hotel,
approved last November, would
include a 41 -unit condomini-
um -hotel with underground
parking.
"The condohotel, inmymind,
does not, in my mind, meet the
hotel /motel concept," Holloway,
of Boise, said in an interview.
"If the Yacht Club is going to be
something of a reasonable value
to the community."
Holloway would have ex-
ercised the option if Hunt's
original plan for a 50 -foot hotel
with more rooms was approved
bythe city, he said. Thatplan was
rejected by the council in 2006.
"I honestly believe that
McCall would benefit from a
convention center," Holloway
said.
The lawsuit says Holloway
committed fraud by renewing
leases to tenant businesses in
the Yacht Club building after
"(Holloway) knowingly and
intentionally failed to disclose
to (Hunt) that (Holloway) had
granted the two said commercial
lessees the right to extend their
leases for an additional five
years," court documents said.
Romano's Italian Restaurant
and The Yacht Club Bar each
received extensions to their
leases, which caused Huntto ask
the city for an extended approval
before he began building Grand
Payette Hotel.
While Hunt has received
preliminary approvals from
the city, Holloway said he has
not received all necessary local,
state and federal approvals for
the project.
"At the time of the attempted
exercise of the option, no federal
or state preliminary approvals
had been received by (Holloway)
at or before the exercise of the
option," Holloway's response to
the lawsuit said.
There are nopreliminaryfed
eral or state approvals required,
Hunt said.
"Similarly, no preliminary
approvals had been received
from the city of McCall regard-
ing a parkingplan, underground
parking, landscaping, public
access amenities, lighting,
storm /water and erosion con-
trol," the response said.
Hunt's preliminary approval
with the city allows him to pay a
feeforparkingif hecannotbuild
the necessary spaces
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ADDRESS 11090 BELLFLOWER PLACE BOX 2026
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Is Pines of Idaho, by Grace Jordan) In April of 1942, the Yacht Club burned, leaving a dismal gap in the main part of
. The lumber to rebuild called for too great a stretch of imagination for the priorities of the townspeople during the World
effort.
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Lardo's team wins Yacht Club snowshoe golf tournament
The team from Lardo's won the eighth annual Yacht Club Challenge snowshoe golf tournament held
last week at McCall Golf Course.
The team of Louie Howard, Jared Howard, Jarred Elliot, and Tom Hom posted
a five -under par score to win the nine -hole scramble tournament and take
possession of the traveling trophy.
Monica Tway, owner of The Yacht Club, said she will continue to sponsor the
annual event as a fun outing for people who come off working long hours during
the McCall Winter Carnival.
A total of 55 golfers played snowshoe golf during the individual open -play
portion, including players from Atlanta, Montgomery, Texas, and Los Angeles.
Golf bags were awarded to Zack Zukeena from Nampa and Josh Alvarado from
Fruitland for low scores on weekends, and Shem White from Pinehurst won a gift
basket for the women's low score
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