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Today...the floating docks of the Council Bluffs Fish and Game Club are partly lying on the bottom of Lake Manawa, due to the low water level. The lake, which has been rising this last month, is still several feet below normal. When the lake has…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Streetcars played an important role in everyday life here when this photo of Broadway--looking west from the Masonic Temple--was taken in 1908. There are three trams in the photo. The only other visible means of…
Today
Today...the same stretch of Broadway has a modernized appearance. The buses, at lower left, have replaced the streetcars. And automobiles are everywhere. Few buildings remain that can be compared with those in the old picture. Missing are the…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--A 1912 post card rom the collection of Art Rogers, 130 Park Ave., shows the entrance and pavilion at Fairmount Park. Easy access to the park at that time was by open streetcar, shown at left. Flower planters, brick…
Today
Today...the scene has changed considerably. Streetcars no longer rumble into the park and the refreshment stand and brick sidewalks have disappeared. In their place, park officials have established a beautiful flower garden and lawn, which catch…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Back 36 years ago, the row boat dock at Lake Manawa looked like this. The amusement park was in full swing on the north shore of the lake, which was a prominent recreation center for Southwest Iowa. This picture is…
Today
Today...the frontage site of the once-popular amusement park has been built up entirely of private dwellings. Private docks, at right, extend into the dry part of the lake bed, where the large boat docks of the streetcar company once stood.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Just 26 years ago this month Pearl Street, along the east side of Bayliss Park, looked like this following a storm that brought wind, hail, and rain. Broken branches littered the street, while hail whitened the ground.…
Today
Today...the same section of Pearl Street, with many noticeable changes during the past 26 years. At left, The Nonpareil building replaces the old one following a fire. Trees in the older picture have since grown up and been removed.
The Harmons Are Here
The population of Council Bluffs increased by nine this week with the arrival of M. Don Harmon, his wife Mary and their seven children. The family, posing at their new home at 269 Elmwood Drive, includes James, 15; Kris, 16; Mrs. Harmon holding…
Harmon, Don and Mary
Council Bluffs City Manager
Don Harmon
City Manager - December 11, 1970
City Manager - December 11, 1970
City Manager Makes Things Happen Here
Staff Meetings . . . each Monday morning is how City Manager Don Harmon starts off the week. Harmon, at head of table in top center, feels that inflation is one of the biggest problems facing Council Bluffs city government. Some needed services have…
Harmon Says Job Completed; Resigns
Reflecting On . . . his 10 years as Council Bluffs city manager is Don Harmon only minutes after the council accepted his resignation Wednesday night. Harmon said he bore no grudges or bitterness. He plans to continue public works but definitely…
Coffee Honors City Manager
City employees sponsored a coffee at the Community Hall this morning to give City Manager Don Harmon a warm send-off as he prepares to spend his last day on the job Tuesday. Shown here at the coffee, attended by several hundred, are Gordon Abel, city…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is how the 100 block on West Broadway looked in 1935. At left is the old No. 4 fire barn. Center buildings are garages. At right is a used car lot.
Today
Today...the same block has changed considerably within the last 21 years. overhead trolley wires and brick paving have disappeared. The old fire station was removed for a grocery store, the garages have new fronts, and a laundry service building…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Just 20 years ago, when this photo was taken, the Quaker Baking Co. was operating at Scott and Mynster Streets. At that time the bakery was an old establishment in Council Bluffs--and the building an oldtimer, too. In…
Today
Today...the city's newest offstreet parking lot is ready for operation on the site of the former Quaker Baking Co. at Scott and Mynster Streets. Parking meters will be installed on the posts. The First Christian Church as at the left.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Built around 1850, this was the first meeting place of Council Bluffs Lodge 49 of the Oddfellows. It was on the southeast corner of Stutsman and Pierce Streets. The date of the photo is not known, but it is from the…
Today
Today...the southeast corner of Pierce and Stutsman Streets is a residential area. The IOOF lodge is in much larger quarters at 400 W. Broadway. This is another of the many changes that are constantly taking place in Council Bluffs.