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A good place to catch fish
The arched wooden footbridge sretching over Carter Lake provices an ideal resting spot for fishermne's poles on a nippy fall day. The men were pulling in a number of fish with hardly any effort. The roar of jets from nearby Eppley Airfield didn't…
Tags: Bridges, Carter Lake, fishing, footbridges
A Good Sign
Highway commission employees erect signs proclaiming the good news of the completion of a segment of Interstate 29 from the I-480 bridge to North Sixteenth Street. The new section, to open Friday, will allow I-29 and U.S. 75 traffic to bypass busy…
A Home For Santa Claus?
The 111-year-old log cabin in Atlantic City Park has been turned over to the city of Atlantic and will probably be used to house Santa Claus during the holiday season. The cabin, a gift from Charles Gipples, was originally built by a John Gingery and…
Tags: Atlantic IA, Atlantic Iowa
A Little Out of the Way
The old Union Pacific 8444 rolled into Council Bluffs Friday morning on its way from Cheyenne, Wyo., to Omaha. A little out of the way? Well, the 451-ton engine is one of the world's largest operating steam locomotives and had to be turned around in…
A New Church Congregation
Calvary Assembly
This Modest Church . . . is again opening its doors to worshipers. The Rev. G.E. Fogelman dismantled a weather-worn sign designating it as a Church of Christ, its former tenants. A new sign will soon identify it as Calvary Assembly.
Tags: Assembly of God Church
A New Look For The Library - Renovation At Glenwood
Glenwood Children . . . wait to enter the newly-renovated Glenwood Public Library, part of the downtown beautification project. Vari-colored bricks have been painted red, and windows, ledges and the entryway are painted white.
A pictorial look at a political rally
Members of the crowd at Abraham Lincoln High School often stood to applaud and wave flags during Vice President Bush's speech.
Tags: George Bush, George H. W. Bush
A Sans Suit Solo
The May sun was hot, the temperature almost 90 when one-year-old Martin McMurray hit the beach at Lake Manawa. Mustering up his courage for a quick dip he promptly lost his dinner. Nobody seemed to mind, he thought, so with the help of his mom,…
A shift in the Missouri and, voilà, Carter Lake
The 118-acre Carter Lake provides fishing and recreational opportunities--and a scenic backdrop--for Carter Lake and area residents. Paved walkways and wooden bridges facilitate pedestrian traffic around the lake which was formed as an ox-bow of the…
Tags: Bridges, Carter Lake
A shift in the Missouri and, voilá, Carter Lake
What is now a large pile of dirt on the outskirts of Carter Lake is the first phase of a major commercial development. In September, Edward Owen, chairman of the board of Paxton & Vierling Steel Co. in Carter Lake, announced construction plans fora…
A shift in the Missouri and, voilá, Carter Lake
At right is the architects', How/Nelson Associates of Omaha, drawing of the planned brick, steel, and glass building. [headquarters of Owen Industries] Groundbreaking for the project is scheduled fro early October. [Photo by Steve Glowacki]
A Shot In The Arm
Kindergartener Richard Cox, of Sunnydale School, braces for a shot of red measles vaccine administered by Dean Rich of the state department of health. The "gun" he used Thursday at a vaccination clinic at Hoover School is painless. Assisting him…
A Spaceship?
A 30-ton upper stack, part of the wet scrubber system being installed at Griffin Pipe Co., was raised to the upper cupola of the building Monday afternoon. The upper stack was raised by a crane shipped from Lawrence, Kan., for just that purpose. The…
A Watery Grave
A Watery Grave...is again the resting place of the Steamboat Bertrand. Work on the artifacts from the ship will be increasing this summer at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge. A new staff member will arrive at DeSoto Monday to work with preservation…
A Weed Transformed
Jack Frost does strange things. When you're in a hurry, he can obliterate the windshield of your car so that only five minutes of elbow grease and a shapr scraper clears the view. And, he can transform things so common they are unnoticed into a…
Tags: Best Pictures 1967-1970, frost
A Welcome Kiss
Mrs. Gertude Bahnsen of Denison plants a big kiss on the cheek of her grandson, Stan, after he arrived at Eppley Airfield via bus late Sunday night. Stan, the American Baseball League's Rookie of the Year, was grounded in Des Moines and was forced…
A. M. Jackson & Co.
Photograph of A. M. Jackson & Co. with horse drawn wagon & group of unidentified men in front.
Tags: 1880, A.M. Jackson & Co., buildings, Business, photograph