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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

Money-Studded Ribbon . . . is cut by Miss Council Bluffs to open the drive-up TV banking service at City National Bank. Assisting with the ribbon cutting are Robert Turner, chairman of the board, and Roland Tornblom, president.

City National Bank, Council Bluffs, Iowa
January 1958

Since 1909, the City National Bank has encouraged the development of this community and aided by financing farmers, merchants and manufacturers in Council Bluffs and Southwestern Iowa. Each day all the facilities of this Bank have been available to…

First National Bank, Council Bluffs, Iowa
date unknown

First National Bank on Broadway, looking west from Main to Pearl Street
date unknown

First National Bank, Council Bluffs, Iowa
unknown date

Buenos Aires, Argentina
1982


Buena Vista College
C.B.
See also: Iowa Western Community College

Brown, Mrs. George J. (Donna L.)
3422 Ave.
Artist who has no hands

Nostalgic scenes...are among artist Donna Brown's favorite subjects. She photographs older sights in Council Bluffs and then paints the scenes so they will not be forgotten--even after the buildings have been torn down.

Checking A Watercolor...for display this month is Council Bluffs artist Donna Yeatman Brown. The Council Bluffs Artists Association is sponsoring an exhibit of about 40 of her artworks this month at Crafts, Etc., 555 W. Broadway.

Checking Over Paintings...Mrs. Brown decides which ones she will display at her show in August.

Finishing Touches...on painting are applied by Mrs. Brown.

Construction . . . is expected to begin in mid May on the 32nd Street and Broadway office of First Federal Savings and Loan Association. The S&L was leveled Christmas Eve when an explosion ripped through the office killing two men, including a First…

Fighting The Remnants . . . of Friday's fatal explosion, firefighters quickly contained the blaze that followed it and gas company employees checked surrounding gas lines for damage.

Taking Notes . . . on Christmas Day amidst the rubble of the First Federal building is Fire Chief Delbert Burdick. To Burdick's left is the gas meter that supplied the natural gas to the savings and loan office.

Peering Through Broken Glass . . . is Beverly Paben, restaurant manager at the Burger King just west of the decimated First Federal office. Employee Pearl Franks handed a food order to a drive-up customer seconds before the blast. Paben said Franks…
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