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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

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Broadway Viaduct...has already carried thousands of vehicles over the railroad tracks.
[looking west from 8th Street]

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Looking west from north side of Broadway and the viaduct, at about 8th or 9th Street. Land is cleared, with small mounds of dirt dotting the strip of land.

Broadway Viaduct
(Includes one clip/pic on "Viaduct Park"
Officially opened 8/17/55

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Cracked cement and for sale signs...spell a gloomy picture on vacant buildings like this one at Pearl Street and Broadway. The handsome building has been vacant for years.

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Scattered weeds...peak[sic] through the sidewalks near 28th Street and Broadway as well as other spots along the strip. Weeds are not unique to any one spot along the strip.

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Less than optimistic in appearance...lots up for sale seem to be havens for weeds.

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Road and business signs...welcome eastbound visitors to Council Bluffs. Wedged in between the Second Avenue sign and the noise ordinance sign is a notice that this site will someday hold a "municipal recognition sculpture." Putting up a sign for…

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Historic Spot In Western Iowa . . . is this brown sandstone house near Lewis, which once sheltered runaway Negro slaves.

Brown, Jr, Edmund G. "Jerry"
Governor
California

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

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A Rosy Apple...appears on a china plate through a brush held in the hand of Kay Godschalk, china painting instructor. Looking on are Mrs. Albert Cleveland, Mrs. C.C. Pennock and Mrs. Eldon Griffin, members of Brush and Palette China Painting…

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

Buenos Aires, Argentina
1982


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Top - Clearing Excess Rock . . . from a Missouri River levee near the Water Works intake station is this barge-based Army Engineers drag line. Rock was dumped on foot of levee during last year's flood fight.

Bottom - New Dike Piling . . . being…

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"The Dog"...is the most popular dance in the lounge and dance floor on the main level of the building. Tables are formica-topped, chairs are durable plastic in multi-colors. The stone around portions of the exterior and interior is California…

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Thompson Rogers (center), great-grandson of J. Schuyler Long, was one of many family members who attended ceremonies Saturday to dedicate ISD's high school building in Long's memory. Long was a pioneer in deaf education and was a member of the…

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Christian Home Chapel...on Avenue E between Seventh and Eighth streets is example of non-residential construction that helped make 1951 a record year.

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The proposed Knudson-Morgan downtown office building (center) is triangular and features a plaza area (left) and parking lot (far left). The dark area to the right is the shadow of the building. Cars would exit from the parking lot to the alley…

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Firefighters battle a blaze that destroyed the Hong Kong Restaurant east of Council Bluffs Monday.
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