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  • Collection: Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil Archives

Broadway United Methodist Church
11 S. 1st St.
Parsonage: 255 Zenith Drive--Built 1964

aerial view of Broadway viaduct, looking west, ca 1955

aerial view, looking west, of Broadway from about 7th Street.
"Air view of Council Bluffs, Oct. 21, 1950" [typed on back of photo]

view of the side of the Broadway viaduct, showing concrete support tiers and structural steel.

aerial photo of Broadway Viaduct, with concrete at 8th Street yet to be poured.

photo of train on tracks running underneath the Broadway viaduct.

Photo from street level, beside (below) the Broadway viaduct from next to Nav's Tavern at 1013 West Broadway.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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…

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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