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New Shopping Image Seen For Garage
Colorful improvements are proposed to give the city-owned Midlands Mall parking garage a less institutional image and make it more inviting to shoppers. New owners propose staining the upper level and support columns reddish-brown, addition of red…
Theaters To Open Tonight
Midlands Four, the new family movie center under the southwest corner of Midlands Mall, will open this Friday at 7 p.m. Among the opening fare will be "Rocky" and "A Star Is Born," both nominated for academy awards. This view looks at the theaters…
Housing Complex C.B. First
(1) The Townhouse Styling . . . of Midtowne Place depicts the front entrances of units facing Pierce Street. Each unit has its own gas lamp post. The 20-unit complex covers a square block.
Midlands Corporation is the developer.
(2) The…
Midlands Corporation is the developer.
(2) The…
Walnut Co. Rolls Out Lots Of Logs In C.B. - Uses Midwestern Timber . . .
(top) Rolling Logs . . . with a cant hook in the Midwest Walnut Company yards is George Bacon. Each log is measured and graded.
(bottom) Guiding A Log . . . into the 60-inch mill saw, are Gene Sorensen and Robert Lewis, chief sawyer. Some logs…
(bottom) Guiding A Log . . . into the 60-inch mill saw, are Gene Sorensen and Robert Lewis, chief sawyer. Some logs…
Firm Cuts Pollution Sources - Noise, Smoke Reduced
(top) The Green And White Striped Box . . . structure adds some color to the planing operation at Midwest Walnut. But it also serves a useful purpose - suppressing sound from the company's planer machine. David Miller, Midwest employee, removes…
No More Burning At Midwest Walnut
The Familiar Sight . . . of the cone-shaped scrap burner at the Midwest Walnut Co. plant will make way for three shavers and a drier to convert waste materials.
Midwestern College Opening Sat Oct. 6 -- Will They Make It?
(top) Administration Building . . . on Midwestern College campus will house offices, auditorium, library, classrooms and dining hall.
(bottom) Dormitories . . . take shape on "College Hill" overlooking Denison and the Boyer River Valley.
(bottom) Dormitories . . . take shape on "College Hill" overlooking Denison and the Boyer River Valley.
Bluffs Man In Broadway Comedy - Millhollin Attended Tee Jay High
Playing A Scene . . . in new comedy "The Girls In 509," are King Donovan, Imogene Coca, James Millhollin and Peggy Wood. -- Friedman-Abeles Photo.
Life Pretty Good For Kids Of Council Bluffs Leaders
City Manager Michael Miller . . . treats his children, Carrie and Tony, like individuals, they said. That makes having a prominent father much easier, Carrie said.
Let's Chat . . . With Jan Miller
Jan Miller
Miller One Of Eight Finalists For D.M. Post
Michael Miller: Council Bluffs city manager said "Des Moines is a career opportunity for me."
Mills County Residents To Vote On Courthouse - For Third Time In Recent Years . . .
Fate . . . of Mills County's 100-year-old courthouse may be decided in a special election Tuesday.
Dedication Address:
Whitney Gilliland, Washington D.C., former Glenwood resident, delivers the dedication address at the new Mills County Courthouse in ceremonies there Saturday. The new structure replaces the 102-year-old courthouse which stood in the same square.
Mills Landmark Being Razed - Old County Home, State School Building
Mill's County's . . . poor house is being razed after 50 years of housing the county's needy and ailing.
Council Bluffs Lost Union Pacific Headquarters in a Fight Over Railroad Bridge
Here is an early day view of a Union Pacific train crossing the Missouri river between Council Bluffs and Omaha on tracks laid on the ice. In the spring the flood waters from the Missouri would seep the temporary ties away, and the trains returned…
Dodge, Gen Grenville
portrait of Cadet Grenville M. Dodge [on revers of photo: "Grenville Mellon Dodge as a Norwich Cadet"]
Dodge, Gen. Grenville
[on reverse of photo: Gen. Grenville Dodge on his 82nd birthday in his office in Co. Bluffs Savings Bank at Pearl & Broadway."]
Dodge, Gen. Grenville
Note with photo: "This is a reproduction of a life-sized painting of General G. M. Dodge as Grand Marshal of Gen. Grant's memorial dedication in NYC April 27, 1897.
This approximately 8 x 12 foot painting hung in the lobby of the Waldorf Hotel in …
This approximately 8 x 12 foot painting hung in the lobby of the Waldorf Hotel in …
Dodge, Gen. Grenville
[on reverse of photo: "Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, State Capitol grounds, Des Moines, Iowa. Looking northly, with capitol in background. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge of CB is astride a horse (one persons on each of four corners) on the northeast side…