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That's Progress...
aerial photo of Bennett Avenue area, after development (1970)
Pencils help ex-trucker create American flag
Bob Bensley admires his flag creation. "It took 10 years to find just the right shade of colors," he said. Bensley used 901 pencils to make his creation.
He hopes 'flag' puts Bluffs on map
Bob Bensley
Beno/Wickham Building
interior of department store, ca 19th century
display counters with stools for customer seating, clerks behind counters
display counters with stools for customer seating, clerks behind counters
Beno/Wickham Building
interior of department store, ca. 19th century
Oriental rugs on floor, several men and women standing by rugs
Oriental rugs on floor, several men and women standing by rugs
Beno/Wickham Building
Detail of brick arches, and carved friezes and column caps of the Wickham Building
Beno/Wickham Building
Photo of corner of Beno/Wickham Building (looking east); windows and doors boarded up, sidwalk closed
Beno/Wickham Building
Front of Beno's Department Store, looking west; sidewalk closed, and workers putting up caution tape
Beno/Wickham Building
Corner (Scott St. and Broadway) of Beno/Wickham Building; doors and windows boarded up
The Wickham Building
The Wickham Building...at Scott Street and Broadway resembles an ear of corn if you take the round turret in the building's southwest corner into account. The site of the building was the location of Pacific House, a turn-of-the-century hotel.
Historic Wickham Building sold
The Wickham building in downtown Council Bluffs is one of three properties proposed for development by an investment group that includes real estate salesman Ted Campbell. Other properties in the project would be the Pacific House (left) and former…
Beno building ordered sold to pay off loan
Beno's Department Store building is shown during better times in the 1966 photo. The building has been ordered sold at a sheriff's auction.
Back from a study session in Europe... Miss Klok has frustrating experience with some 'hard-core reds' in Russia
Playing records . . . she brought back from Russia, Karen Klok relaxes "for the first time in 10 month." --Nonpareil Photo.
C.B. native is president of Clinique cosmetics
Karen Anderegg
Queen's dressing room never intended as such
Getting ready . . . Queen Karen's going somewhere at last. -Nonpareil Photo.
Karen's homecoming was well-kept secret
Queen in hiding . . . eats, sleeps and avoids the telephone. -Nonpareil Photo.
Anderson is critical of Branstad merger plan during campaign stop
Lt. Gov. Robert Anderson speaks at a press conference Friday in Council Bluffs, where he kicked off his Southwest Iowa campaign for governor. --Nonpareil photo by Steve Glowacki