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Old Mystery Is Solved
Home Executive Director David Lemen...found the cornerstone included a hand-written letter from his great-great-grandfather revealing E.C. Clapp, president of the Bank of Shelby, donated $25,000 of his parents' money for the building. Other contents…
Old Modale Bank To Be Dissolved
The Modale Savings Bank . . . built in the early 1900s, may soon become a bank office of the State Bank and Trust of Council Bluffs. Papers have been filed with the state of Iowa and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to dissolve the Modale…
Old McMillen School May Be Completely Remodeled; Depending On Bond Issue
Sketch of McMillen School...shows one-story unit for kindergarten and first grade with separate entrance. Entrance to other classrooms is shown at the side. Sketch by Architect B.G. Larson
Old McMillen School District
One of Council Bluffs older landmarks, the McMillen School built in 1878, will be razed in a few weeks. The School Board is accepting bids on the demolition contract until Aug. 6. The building located at eighth [sic] Avenue and Fifteenth Street has…
Old Landmark Evacuated By Burlington Railroad; Dates Back To Civil War Era
Vacated By The Railroad...this section of the Burlington Freight Depot will be leased to a local concern for warehouse storage.
Old Lake and Harrison schools may be razed
A Proposal To Raze...old Lake School on North Broadway will be presented to the School Board. The Council Bluffs schools facilities committee Tuesday approved plans to recommend razing the structure.
Old Howard Plastics Plant Gutted By Fire - Financial Loss Unknown
Firemen With Hose . . . battle their way into the burning building as heavy black smoke pours skyward.
Old Howard Plastics Plant Gutted By Fire - Financial Loss Unknown
Smoke Pours From Openings . . . in the building at 1401 S. Main St. This is the east side of the structure.
Old Hospital Facilities To Be Demolished
Demolition Of Old Mercy Hospital Facilities . . . will begin soon. Cost of maintaining the building plus the failure of several interested groups to find practical use for the complex of buildings has led hospital officials to decide to tear down the…
Old Home To Become an Inn Thing
Harry Wendt and Lawrence "Babe" Kohlscheen prepare to paint the exterior of a house which will become a Victorian Bed and Breakfast Inn that will offer antique-furnished rooms in the restored turn-of-the-century house in Avoca.
Old Fire Alarm System Rests On Historic Laurels
Alarm's Brain . . . was this copper, brass, glass and white marble beauty known as a repeater. All 40 street fire alarm boxes were monitored through the device. Ticker tape punched out code to correspond to alarm box number.
Old Fire Alarm System Rests On Historic Laurels
Button Box . . . on the right is demonstrated by Asst. Fire Chief Norman Elgan. Disks inserted in the box would cause the other station's gongs, like one on left, to ring out the fire's location.
Old Farm Machinery In Glenwood Museum
Raymond Lintell . . . president of the Mills County Historical Society, leans against a 1929 Ford pickup once used by the Glenwood Transit Lines Inc., as he surveys the collection of agricultural equipment and machinery in the latest addition to the…
Old Crescent School Will Go On The Auction Block
To Be Sold Saturday...this old school building at Crescent holds a host of memories for many of the citizens of the community who attended school here. It is nearly 60 years old.
Old Couple Evacuated
Watching The Water . . . as it slowly rises in their front yard at Oakland are Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Smith.
Old Church Coming Down
First United Presbyterian Church, 634 Willow Ave. is doomed for destruction. The Rev. David McCalmont, pastor of the church is standing at its front entrance which has not been used for the past month. The congregation voted unanimously Sunday to…
Old Chance Has Had A Full Life
Ol' Chance...may be a senior citizen in the canine world but to his master, Charles Thacjer, he's still top dog. The two met "by chance" 15 years ago.
Old Car Bones Are Picked Clean
End Of The Line . . . for autos that have been stripped of useable parts is in the burner where fumes and smoke are washed into a filter basin while the car is torched of all but the metal. The metals are then delivered to a junk yard.
Old Car Bones Are Picked Clean
On The Hot Line . . . Darrell Schoening talks to other members of the Omaha and Council Bluffs Auto and Truck Recyclers Association, all 25 of whom are connected to "hot line" service. He's in search for a part that's not in stock in his yard.…
Old Car Bones Are Picked Clean
Keeping up to date on auto salvage parts for late model autos is a big job. Darrell Schoening, operator of the Hi-Way 92 Auto Salvage, is quick to explain that his business is not a "junk yard." Even current models are found in the yard. Purchased…