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Boy with a Leaky Boot statue, acting as a fountain, in Centre Point Mall. May with hose kneeling by the fountain, filling it with water

artist rendering of interior of Center Point / Midlands Mall with kiosk, Orange Julius, and Crown Hallmark in foreground, Younkers in the background
On back of photo:
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Midlands Mall
renamed "Centre Point Mall"
5/10/88

New owners of Centre Point mall want to take over ownership of public walkways in the mall from the city in an effort to curb rowdyism and enhance mall security.

Datsun auto with driver's door open, blood on ground (gravel surface) and on the driver's seat

Rear view of Corvette, Mills County license plate EFJ773, angled onto gravel shoulder of paved highway (275 South); driver's door open. Datsun, with front door open, in background.

close-up of driver's side seat, blood on seat , with sunglasses on the seat

head and shoulders profile of a man, identified on the bottom of the photo as Charles Chadwich, 1981

Below, [Court bailiff Mike] Peth leads suspect John Hrbek from the courtoom. Both suspects pleaded innocent. Nonpareil photo by Steve Glowacki.

Silent Vigils . . . were kept round the clock to watch the river along the flashboard, backed with dirt and walled with rows of sandbags. Miles of wire were strung to allow night-and-day work on the hurriedly built defenses. Council Bluffs went…

Men gather in downtown Council Bluffs

Playing baseball in Bayliss Park

A Hamburg, IA evacuee loads a wagon

Hanging out of the kitchen window

Salvation Army volunteers bring food to evacuees

Photo, from the street, of the Chalet Motor Lodge. Sign says: "Quality Motor Lodge," and "Finest Food in C.B."
Date on back: 4-70

New Chamber President...Lelan Lykke presents appreciation award to Morris Miller, president of the Omaha Chamber of Commerce.

Aerial view of the flooded Missouri river between Council Bluffs and Omaha looking south

Plank roadway was being laid by volunteers on the levee near Big Lake on Monday. Later, trucks will haul dirt and sand for two miles along this stretch of levee to "beef up" against "wash waves."

Volunteers are putting up flashboard on the Council Bluffs side of the Missouri river a few days before the expected crest.

Cots fill the gymnasium at Abraham Lincoln High School, the main evacuation center set up by the Red Cross. More than 250 evacuees took refuge in this center as the Missouri river threatened their homes.
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