Piles Of Rubble . . . remain after a Christmas Eve explosion leveled the First Federal Savings and Loan building at 32nd Street and Broadway. Two men died in the explosion and several people were injured.
A Scene Near Lake Tahoe . . . is the subject of the painting inspected by Mrs. Mary Ruffcorn, A First Federal employee. The painting hangs in the president's second-floor office and was created by his daughter.
A steady flow of curious Council Bluffs citizens circulated through the sparkling new First Federal Savings and Loan Association building during the first day of its open house Saturday. President Einer Juel was on hand to show people one of his new…
White Georgian Marble . . . covers the vaulted columns of the new $1.5 million plus First Federal Savings and Loan Association building that opens this weekend. Recessed lighting from the top accents gold-stainless steel fins which offset full-length…
These Three Buildings . . . will come down to make room for a building to house First Federal Savings and Loan Association. Five buildings to right of Herman's Clothes Shop will be razed and the land used for parking.
New First Federal Building . . . is a beehive of activity as workmen put finishing touches to $300,000 structure at Main St. and Broadway. Glass, brick . . . give the building a distinctive ultra modern appearance.
Making A Bid...for the Democratic nomination against Jimmy Carter and Sen. Kennedy is California Gov. Jerry Brown. The governor said in his Southwest Iowa stop that he had ideas of how to solve the nation's energy shortage, among other things.
Blasting President Carter...for his lack of leadership and "disastrous" foreign policy, California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., predicted in Council Bluffs Friday a wide open race for the Democratic nomination. Nonpareil photo by Jim Ebert.
Looking west from north side of Broadway and the viaduct, at about 8th or 9th Street. Land is cleared, with small mounds of dirt dotting the strip of land.
Newly planted trees, shrubs and flower beds decorate the city's newest and smallest park. It occupies the east edge of the Viaduct parking lot at Eighth and Broadway. The camera points toward the Eighth and Broadway intersection.