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Final Performance
Please give up your rabbit: That's the plea of Jackee Wise as Myrtle Mae and her mother, Vita, played by Ida Neary, as Elwood, portrayed by Norman Filbert Jr., grimaces at the thought of giving up his six-foot-tall invisible friend. the scene is from…
Financial Institutions weather economic storm
Part of downtown Council Bluffs...financial center is the corner of West Broadway at Main and Fourth Streets where four banks or savings and loans are located.
Find 'Remedy' From Riverboat
Rustless Hook---used by riverboat crews to move heavy freight appeared out of the hold of the ship. Kerrmit Dybsetter inspects the 16-pound, hand-forged find.
Find 'Remedy' From Riverboat
Lost Boot...was thigh-high and had a very large foot with studded sole.
Find 'Remedy' From Riverboat
Bottles Of Stomach Bitters...distributed from Pittsburgh, Pa., are brought out of the riverboat by Harry Sorensen, owner of his construction firm, and one of his workmen.
Finding A Place To Live - It's Not Always Easy
Top To Bottom: Sail Apartments, a six-plex located at 3001 Second Ave; Place 35, low-income apartments located - as the plaque indicates - at 901 N. 35th St.; and a duplex located at 2934 and 2936 Seventh Ave.
Fine Old Grand Piano Once Pride Of Malvern Opera Days
Relegated To A Dark Corner . . . is the old grand piano, all that's left of the Malvern Opera House. Roy Mansfield, whose furniture store now occupies the building, inspect the old instrument.
Finished product . . .
Finished product . . . of big shredder is shown by Tom Hale, account executive at Alters. Old autos are reduced to clean metal more or less the size of baseballs, and read for steel mills and foundrys over the United States and abroad to be recycled…
Finnish girl likes role of being 'older sister'
Showing the Lappish shoes . . . she brought from Finland is Paula Ylanne. Surrounding her are the Rev. Mr. Miars, Shelly, Mrs. Miars and Jeff. --Nonpareil Photo.
Fire At Old Lumber Yard Spreads To Ford Building - No Estimate Of Damage
Black Smoke Rolls . . . from the Hoagland Lumber yard during the height of the fire. The pall of smoke triggered telephone calls to The Nonpareil from as far away as the west side of the city. - Photo by Jack Kennedy
Fire Brings About More Efficient Plastics Plant
Arnold Plastics Co. employees operate a bottle-making machine in the firm's rebuilt facilities. A fire which destroyed the plant some months ago has led to more innovations.
Fire Damage
An estimated $250,000 damage resulted in a fire which swept through the West Heights Manor rest home under construction at Clarinda. Fire started in the center core of the structure which housed the kitchen, dining area, administrative offices and…
Fire damages legion club
Firemen check the roof of the American Legion Club, 23 1/2 Pearl St., which was damaged by fire and smoke Saturday afternoon. Remodeling and redecorating was completed last week as result of a fire last November. Story on page 1B. --Nonpareil Photo.
Fire Department & Fire Stations File #1 (to 04-30-1974)
Firemen checking out fire alarm cable at the Council Bluffs Fire Department
Fire Department & Fire Stations File #1 (to 04-30-1974)
Gentlemen checking out one of 40 street fire alarm boxes located in Council Bluffs. The boxes were monitored through a 'repeater' located at the Central Station.
Fire Department & Fire Stations File #1 (to 04-30-1974)
Central Fire Station in Council Bluffs circa 1950
Fire Department & Fire Stations File #1 (to 04-30-1974)
Council Bluffs Fire Station No. 3
Fire Department & Fire Stations File #1 (to 04-30-1974)
Firemen battling the blaze at the Elder Court Apartments in Council Bluffs