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Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: From a souvenir booklet about Council Bluffs, published in the early 1900s, comes this sketch of Moore's Stock Food Co. The address was listed as 27 and 29 Fourth St. At that time there were still many frame…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: In the early 1900s the Illinois Central Railroad had this passenger station at Thirteenth St. and Avenue A. Note the mail wagons waiting for an incoming train. The picture is from a post card in the collection of…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: In 1925 this property at 410 N. 6th St. had been the home of the late Mrs. Effie Poffenbarger. Judging from the "gingerbread" decorative trim it was more than 30 years old at the time. The brick sidewalks also date…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: Back in 1909, this is how the Chicago North Western Railroad Depot at 12 S. 12th St. and Broadway looked. The old picture, complete with steam engine and train in front of the platform is from an old postal card from…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
This is the old Wickham Brick Yard at the end of North Eighth Street paving as it appeared in 1904. The brick yard was at one time one of the city's leading industries, turning out millions of bricks for homes and streets. The bricks were stacked in…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene 1958
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Photo of Main Street, looking north from Broadway. City National Bank is pictured on the northwest corner.
Photo of Main Street, looking north from Broadway. City National Bank is pictured on the northwest corner.
Council Bluffs Changing Times
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: At the turn of the century an open city water reservoir at the head of Glen Avenue left, and the pumping station roof can be seen at right. Large building in the background was the old Council Bluffs high School. …
Council Bluffs Dedicates Its Viaduct
Parade of Progress...moves across the $2,000,000 Broadway Viaduct. Pretty girls, jeeps, floats, dignitaries, clown-mobiles, convertibles, National Guardsmen and horses were all included in the parade celebration here on Wednesday afternoon.
Council Bluffs Drive-in
Images of the Council Bluffs Drive-in Theater. Screening of "First Blood."
Council Bluffs Drive-In
Photographs of the Council Bluffs Drive-In theater in 1999 - celebrating its 49th anniversary.
Council Bluffs Elevators Play Major Part In Local Railroad Industry - Furnish Employment For 224 Men With Payroll Of $154,000
Archer-Daniels-Midland Company . . . Twenty-sixth avenue and Fourth street. Capacity: 2,000,000 bushels. Owned by Burlington railroad.
Council Bluffs Elevators Play Major Part In Local Railroad Industry - Furnish Employment For 224 Men With Payroll Of $154,000
Scoular-Bishop Grain Company . . . Thirty-sixth street and First avenue. Capacity: 250,000 bushels. Privately owned but on Burlington, Rock Island and North Western railroad trackage.
Council Bluffs Elevators Play Major Part In Local Railroad Industry - Furnish Employment For 224 Men With Payroll Of $154,000
Butler-Welsh Grain Company . . . Thirty-third street and First avenue. Capacity: 410,000 bushels. Owned by Burlington railroad.
Council Bluffs Elevators Play Major Part In Local Railroad Industry - Furnish Employment For 224 Men With Payroll Of $154,000
Omaha Elevator Company . . . Eighteenth avenue and Twenty-third street. Capacity: 1,500,000 bushels. Privately owned but on Union Pacific trackage.
Council Bluffs Elevators Play Major Part In Local Railroad Industry - Furnish Employment For 224 Men With Payroll Of $154,000
Butler-Welsh Grain Company . . . Twenty-fourth avenue and Fourth street. Capacity: 370,000 bushels. Owned by Milwaukee railroad.
Council Bluffs Elevators Play Major Part In Local Railroad Industry - Furnish Employment For 224 Men With Payroll Of $154,000
Updike Grain Corporation . . . Tenth street and Avenue L. Capacity: 2,750,000 bushels. Owned by North Western railroad.