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Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This photo was taken before 1900 by the late Dr. F.W. Dean. It looks north from the top of Gibraltar, a high cliff just east of Abraham Lincoln High School. Dr. Dean lived in the house at lower left, which faced…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--These brick buildings at First St. and Broadway, erected about 100 years ago, were the first of their type in Council Bluffs. This photo was reproduced from "Early Days At Council Bluffs" by Babbitt, a book at the Free…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--About 1900 when 33 S. Main St. was a storage warehouse for the Wm. Welch storage and transfer line, and all the drays were horse drawn, the Fryer printing house and Long wallpaper shop occupied the neighboring…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Back in 1900, some 50 horses and a large amount of hay were kept in the Welch transfer barn on South Tenth St., between Fourth and Fifth Aves. One of the transfers [sic] four-horse teams is hitched to a load of lumber. …
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is how the north side of Broadway, east of Sixth Street, looked some 37 years ago. This photo was taken by the late H.W. Hansen during a World War I parade. It belongs to a son, Ray W. Hansen of Route 2. In the…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Around the turn of the century South Main Street was quite an industrial center for the city. This is a sketch of the old Deere Wells Implement Co. building at 1495 and 1601 S. Main St. It was painted by Gail…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Thirty-three years ago a garage at Fourth St. and Fifth Ave. was operated by Ed and Jess Brockman, with the frame building, center right, housing the stables for the Express company, and with the Continental-Keller…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--A firehouse scene believed to be at No. 1 station on South Main Street before 1900, finds three typical firefighters playing three handed cribbage. This photo comes from retired fireman Bud Cheyne, 412 Oakland Ave.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--For variety we have the "back yard" of business block at Broadway and Scott St. as seen from the rear of buildings at First Ave. and Pearl St. Just what had burned is not certain, but the date was April, 1910.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--At least 50 years ago, the No. 22 Fire Station at Twentieth St. and Broadway looked like this. We're not just sure what the occasion was for the decorations, but even the horses and fire wagons were shined up. …
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--The first St. Paul's Episcopal Church as it appeared after completion in 1862. According to the church records, this building stood on the site of the present Pottawattamie County jail, facing north on the alley…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--South Main Street, looking south from Willow Avenue, was decorated for a parade when this picture was taken about 50 years ago. At the extreme right is the old Merriam Block, the Grand Livery Stable is at center; the…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--A "taxi" of 75 years ago, more commonly known as a hack or one-seated coupe, was pictured alongside the Ogden Hotel. The hack was owned and operated by the Wm. Welch Transfer Company with offices in the Ogden. The…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Broadway west from Scott St. took on a drab look the first week of April 1952. The city threatened by Missouri River flooding, sandbags wallowed hog-like in the center of the business district. Nearly all business…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--a popular spot in the late 1800s was the Tremont House, at Ninth St. and Broadway, on the northwest corner. Sign on the front reads "Meals 25 cents." This old print was found by Fred Brunow in the attic of a home he…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--About 50 years ago, the old wooden bridge across an open Indian Creek at Frank St. was being replaced with a "modern" concrete bridge. Here is an old photo that's been in the Jeff Brunow family for many years.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--In the 1880s, Broadway and Pearl Street looked like this copy of an old picture in the files of the City Water Works. On the corner was the Burlington Railroad ticket office in the Everett building. Real Estate…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--An illustration appearing in the Historical Atlas of Iowa, printed in 1875, indicated this was the residence of C.R. Scott, Esq., of Council Bluffs. The old book belongs to Mrs. K.R. Magarrell, 1751 Canning St.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--The Conrad Geise and Son's Brewery occupied some 20 acres between Frank and Oak Streets on Broadway when this picture was taken in 1898. From a Trans-Mississippi Exposition booklet on Council Bluffs, the picture…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--In 1898, The Council Bluffs High School Cadets were a crack drill team. They are lined up for a picture on Willow Avenue, just west of Pearl St. This old photograph comes from Ed Welch of 331N. [sic] 7th St.