These balloons painted on the old JC Penney building at 542 W. Broadway are scheduled to be painted over with a new mural depicting Council Bluffs history.
Receiving A Southwest Iowa Welcome...is Mrs. Irene Miller Wolfe, from Warren Frye, Chamber of Commerce director, as they met at Omaha's Eppley Airfield. Mrs. Wolfe, sister of famous bandleader Glenn Miller, was going to Clarinda for this Thursday's…
Suspect (Lee Farmer) held against Mustang car outside Council Bluffs Savings Bank on Pearl St. Four uniformed police officers, two with handguns drawn, one with rifle. Two men not in uniform.
(Information from photos taken at the same scene,…
Suspect [Lee Farmer] held against Mustang car outside Savings and Loan on Pearl Street. Four police officers, two with handguns drawn, one with rifle. Two men not in uniform, one with walkie-talkie. Duplicate of Bank_Robberies_01, but with names…
Suspect [Lee Farmer] held against car; three uniformed police officers, one with handgun drawn, one with rifle; off-duty police officer [Dan Larsen]
(Information from photos taken at the same scene, reported in Nonpareil 2-23-1974)
Omaha, Neb., Feb. 15 -- HELD IN BANK HOLDUP -- John Paul Budrevich, 58, San Francisco, was being held in Omaha today under $15,000 bond in conncection with the Feb. 8 holdup of the Council Bluffs (Iowa) Savings Bank. (AP WIREPHOTO) bd31410fbi '66
Charred Remains Of The Pink Poodle Steak House...in Crescent are investigated by Crescent Fire Chief Jim Evans and volunteer fireman Bob Nortstrom. Units from McClelland, Council Bluffs and Lewis Township also fought the eraly morning blaze.
The Way It Was . . . is captured in this decades-old photograph of the second Aeroplane Inn, once a fixture on the road from Council Bluffs to Missouri Valley. When the building burned down there was some concern for the post office which was located…
Former President Dwight Eisenhower and Sen. Barry Goldwater, GOP presidential candidate, talk things over before filming of TV campaign file on Ike's Gettysburg, PA farm. - AP Wirephoto
The Kansas City Firm . . . of Bartlett and Co. Grain, is in the process of buying this 2.5 million-bushel grain elevator here, owned by the Chicago and North Western Railroad.
Snow Covers Walk...to the front door of the empty Bartlett School building. Residents want to clear the path and reopen the doors as a community building.,