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Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: Taken about 1920, just a few years before the structure burned down, this picture shows the roller coaster which thrilled thousands of people every year in the old Manawa amusement park. It stood at the northwest…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: From a postal card dated 1910 comes this view of St. John's Lutheran Church at Seventh St. and Willow Ave. The photo was furnished by Don Jones of 2422 Avenue F.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: Ready to deliver a new kitchen stove in his wagon is Sherman Sellers. This old picture was made at the intersection of Main St. and First Ave. in 1898 and came from L.R. Sellers of Route 1, a brother of Sherman. In…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: The third annual National Horticultural Congress was in full swing here back in 1909, when this picture was taken. The building, which later became known as the City Auditorium, was especially erected for the show. …
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: After a cloudburst in the 1920s this was the view near the intersection of Harrison and Hall Streets. Paving bricks were washed down the hill and the subgrade melted as shown in the photo taken from the south by Lou…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: Pottawattamie County's second Courthouse--replacing one constructed of logs--was built in 1866 at a cost of $42,000. It had a short life of 18 years. In 1883 a grand jury declared the basement jail unfit for…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: Just last November this was the west side of Fourth Street between First Ave. and Broadway. Building wreckers were moving in to clear the block for a city parking garage. Most of the structures dated well back into…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: This is the south side of Broadway looking west from Main Street as it appeared in 1903. In the foreground is the First National Bank Building and behind it the four-story Council Bluffs Savings Bank. The…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: In the early 1900s, this building at 612-18 S. Main St. housed the local warehouse of the Minneapolis Threshing Machine Comp. At that time it was one of many farm implement companies housed along South Main Street. …
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: The return of the 51st Regiment of Iowa Volunteers in November 1899, was photographed at the corner of Willow Avenue and Pearl Street. Residences in the background, from left to right, were the homes of W.H.M. Pusey,…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: Activities of prohibitionists on Willow Avenue, between Seventh and Eighth Streets, are shown on this postcard picture published in 1919. The demonstration against the sale of liquor was made in front of Bloomer…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: This was the residence of Conrad Geise, some 73 years ago. The picture appeared in the Illustrated Atlas of Pottawattamie County, published in 1885. Geise, a bottler and brewer, lived on Frank Street, near Harmony. …
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: In 1887 the booklet, "Council Bluffs Illustrated," carried this view of the residence, left, owned by G. H. Champ. And the city directory for that year listed the address as 246 Fletcher Ave. Champ was an investment…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: A look at Pearl Street south from Broadway in the early 1900s shows that the horse and buggy and the high-wheeled street car were the principal means of transportation. And women were wearing dresses which practically…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: This is how Glen Avenue looked from Broadway in 1888. On the Broadway corner, left, is the home of Ira Platner. Other homes are barely visible on up the hill. This fine old picture was loaned by Mrs. V. P. Laustrup,…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: Back in the 1920's, Gilbert's pond at Big Lake was used as a municipal swimming pool. This was one of the city's most popular play areas. Note the high bluffs, east of the North Eighth Street road, in the background. …
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
There was snow on the ground when this picture was taken during the funeral procession of Dr. Donald Macrae Jr. in January of 1932. This is Broadway, looking west from Oak Street. Only commercial buildings along this section of Broadway were the…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: This panoramic view at Main St. and Broadway (right) appears on a double postal card, published about 1900. The photo obviously was made with an old-fashioned camera that revolved to cover more than the 90-degree…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: The is the Grape Growers Assn. plant as it appeared in 1912 at the southwest corner of Ninth Ave. and Seventh St. The association dates back to 1893. This picture appeared in a Southwestern Iowa booklet entitled "The…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: Sanitary hairdressing Parlors, at 122 South Main, and its proprietor, Mrs. Sarah Pierce, at left, is reported to have been one of the first hair dressing shops in the city. The old picture is from Mrs. Helen Sherman…