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Council Bluffs Elevators Play Major Part In Local Railroad Industry - Furnish Employment For 224 Men With Payroll Of $154,000
Crowell Elevator Company . . . Thirtieth street and First avenue. Capacity: 1,200,000 bushels. Owned by Rock Island railroad.
Council Bluffs Firm Enters Chair Market
Finishing Touches...are administered by Harold Hiers to one of the 60 vinyl-covered models. Inspecting the job are Bob Bergstrom, and Don Pfeiffer.
Council Bluffs From 9 Miles Up
This is how Council Bluffs and part of Omaha look from nine miles up. This photo was take by Mark Hurd Aaerial [sic] Surveys, Inc., of Minneapolis, Minn, which has perfected a method of utilizing a distortion-free camera in a Lear jet plane to take…
Council Bluffs Has More Than Ample Banking Facilities
Council Bluffs Savings Bank
Council Bluffs Is Center Of Huge Floral Industry
The two-story modern office building and a portion of the Henry Meyer Greenhouse, 3142 West Broadway, are shown above.
Council Bluffs Is Center Of Huge Floral Industry
This "ocean of glass" at 1132 East Pierce street represents fifty-four of the fifty-six greenhouses operated by J.F. Wilcox and sons. The business was established in 1867.
Council Bluffs Is Center Of Huge Floral Industry
One mile east of Council Bluffs on highway No. 7 are to be found the greenhouses of George Wilcox and sons. Principal products of the plant are vegetables. There are five greenhouses.
Council Bluffs Is Center Of Huge Floral Industry
The Frank Hecht nursery is one of the beauty spots of Council Bluffs. Twenty years ago the tract on which the nursery is located consisted of brush-covered hills and trash-filled hollows. In the spring the hills about the nursery are covered with…
Council Bluffs Is Center Of Huge Floral Industry
Frank L. Lainson, wholesale and retail florist, operates two separate plants. The above is a section of the one on Canning street, which has 150,000 square feet of glass.
Council Bluffs Is Center Of Huge Floral Industry
Eighty-five thousand square feet of glass make up the greenhouses operated by John T. Walton, 500 North Twenty-sixth street. Shown above, the Walton greenhouses were formerly the Reams plant. The transfer of the property by sale was by the Harry C.…
Council Bluffs Is Center Of Huge Floral Industry
Specializing in sweet peas and snapdragons, C. E. Hinman operates four greenhouses (above) on McPherson Avenue. The plant has been in operation for four years.
Council Bluffs Is Center Of Huge Floral Industry
One of the two greenhouse plants operated by Fred L. Lainson is at Ninth Avenue and Twenty-ninth Street. It has 100,000 square feet of glass. A partial view is shown above.
Council Bluffs Is Important In Reorganized L.D.S. Church History
RLDS Church in Council Bluffs
Council Bluffs Is Plastic Bag Center - 'Gastronomical Figures" . . . . .
Printed Plastic . . . is folded and sealed into a 'tube" by Miss Ruby Obradovich of 1527 Fifteenth Ave.
Council Bluffs Is Plastic Bag Center - 'Gastronomical Figures" . . . . .
Two "Webs" Of "Film" . . . come off the press at Howard Plastics, Inc., under the watchful eye of Donald Christensen, 919 1/2 S. Main St.
Council Bluffs Jaycees Mark 50th Anniversary
Looking At Scrapbook . . . commemorating 50 years of the Council Bluffs Jaycees are, seated, John f. "Jack" Wilcox Jr., the first president, and David L. Long, 1983-84 president.