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Mark Loizeau with his father, John, set and detonated dynamite charges that dropped the last span of the Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge Saturday. He was pleased with the demolition which went off with a loud boom and few hitches. -- Nonpareil photos

The 79-year-old remains of the Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge, blasted into the water last Saturday, were being cut up for scrap Wednesday by workmen for Allied Structured Steel of Hammond, Ind. The 100,000 tons of steel will be sliced into smaller sections for…

Baptist Church
Trinity
22nd St. & Ave B
Formerly Second Baptist

This Brick Structure...will always be known by a number of families as Trinity Baptist Church's educational Unit. However, the church's senior members have disbanded, and the denomination has sold the facility to a Council Bluffs couple who plan to…

Miss Lola Thompson, 2419 Avenue E. talks about new construction on Trinity Baptist Church with worker Larry Wooley, 912 Cathy Lane. Miss Thompson, a long-time church member, is the former organist for the church.

The construction of the new front…

Trinity Baptist Church...which was moved to this corner of 22nd Street and Avenue B a few years after 1890, is to be torn down and replaced as off-street parking for its worshippers.

New Education Unit...at Trinity Baptist Church has been completed and will be dedicated at special services Sunday. The addition will house classrooms and a pastor's study.

Education Unit...at Trinity Baptist Church, facing Twenty-second St. and Avenue B, is now half completed.

Recently-purchased Parsonage...of Trinity Baptist Church is located at 2623 Avenue A. This is the first time since the church was started here in the late 1880s that it has had a parsonage.

The Second Baptist Church, Avenue B and Twenty-second street, began as a mission in 1889...
[Photo retouched]

The Rev. Francis Hitch...places book on altar in Fellowship Hall. Junior workshop services will be conducted in this area each Sunday.

South View Baptist Church 1979
8th St. & 21st Ave.
3/2/88 New pastor: Dwight Oswald

Arranging pews...in the auditorium of their new South View Baptist Chapel are Mr. and Mrs. Bill Waters. They are one of three couples from Valley View Baptist Church who have been given the outreach responsibility for another gospel preaching church…

Prospect Park Baptist Church
1100 Harrison St.
Rev. Leo Young, pastor from 1979--
See: Young, Rev. Leo (2)

Admiring Mountain Scene...behind the baptistry in the pulpit area of his new sanctuary is the Rev. Michael Scott

The Rev. Michael Scott...looks over spacious area of the new educational unit's fellowship hall. All of the new area features parchment beige decorations.

Exterior work of the Educational addition to Prospect Park Baptist Church is now completed, all but hanging one door, its pastor, the Rev. Robert Fry said Saturday. The vertical wood siding matches the church proper. With the new addition, Prospect…

exterior of Prospect Park Baptist Church

interior of Prospect Park Baptist Church, with Rev. Robert Fry

exterior of new Prospect Park Baptist Church
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