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Hilt Breaks Ground
Hilt Truck Lines officially broke ground for its new terminal on 6.7 acres of ground near Thirty-fifth Street and Fourteenth Avenue Thursday afternoon. Participating in the ceremony are LeRoy Hilt, president, Robert Hilt, vice president, Ronald…
Things Are Happening
With the steel structure completed and the masonry work under way, workmen continue construction on what is to be the Hilt Truck Line Co. from Lincoln. The building is being built on South 35th Street. The general contractor is Dale Steufer.
Three Omaha Trucking Firms Move To Bluffs - Meat Is Main Attraction
In Charge Of Establishing . . . new bases in Council Bluffs for their respective transportation firms are Robert Hilt of Freeman Transfer, John Hornung of Watkins Motor Lines and Jay Trannell of Nebraska Coast Express. They will headquarter at Hilt…
Hinky Dinky Supermarkets
Hinky Dinky Supermarket at Glen Avenue and West Broadway in Council Bluffs, 1939
Hinky-Dinky Stores Plan Fly-In Supermarket Here - Will Be First In America . . .
Fly-In Supermarket . . . planned by Hinky-Dinky at Glen Ave. and Broadway will look like this. The cars will enter the rooftop parking lot from Pierce St. Sketch by G.B. Larson, architect.
Supermarket Design
The plans for this new supermarket at Twenty-eighth St. and West Broadway were revealed Saturday by Hinky-Dinky Stores of Omaha. Grading for the $300,000 structure has been started. The store will open late in the spring of 1957 and employ 100…
Huge New Store Ready To Open - Public Preview Is Slated For Sunday
New Supermarket . . . and 300-car parking lot built by Hinky Dinky Food Stores occupy a full square block at Twenty-eighth St. and West Broadway. It is the largest grocery store in Iowa and will employ about 100 persons.
Hinky Dinky Readies Store
Getting ready for opening of Hinky Dinky's new store at Oak Street and Broadway in the new Bluff Plaza is a big job. A whole troop of employees have been working for several weeks to stock the shelves in preparation for the grand opening.
Hinky Dinky Readies Store
From The Manager's Office . . . the new Hinky Dinky store looks like this. Workers arrange the last items on the long row of shelves that are nearly completed. To operate the store requires 55 employees under Manager Ed Brown who has been in charge…
Hinky Dinky Readies Store
Frozen Foods In New Style Cases . . . some 75 feet long and well lighted are one of the features of the new store. Another feature is the "on premise" bakery section. The store contains 20,000 square feet, 15,000 feet of display and sales, and was…
Store Opens Doors
Cutting The Ribbon . . . formally opening the new Hinky Dinky Supermarket at Bluff Plaza Wednesday is Mayor John Pogge, center. Present for the opening are C.A. Monasee, president of Hinky Dinky; J.M. Newman, chairman of the board; Ed Brown, store…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: Back in 1889, the Council Bluffs Union Ticket office--and various express firms--occupied this building at 507 W. Broadway. Note how the men who ran the office are clothed. This old photo came from Bud Bascom of 1911…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: Back in 1898, the Council Bluffs Coal and Ice Co. at 911 W. Broadway was a going business. It handled more than 1,000 car loads of coal a season, according to the Trans-Mississippi and International exposition booklet…
Today
Today...a vast change has been made in the 900 block of West Broadway. While some buildings remain, they lay in the shadow of the new Broadway Viaduct. The rail of the viaduct can be seen in the foreground. New buildings have been added and the…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: At the turn of the century an ornate bathhouse known as the Kursal [sic], was the center of activities at Lake Manawa. Built in 1896 on the south shore it doubled as a recreation and dining hall. The platform…
Today
Today...a vast change has taken place--the type of beach improvements as well as in the kind of garb worn by bathers. Sunshine seekers sit on the sand in front of a bathhouse. And the beach is on the west side of the lake.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene: From an old postal card dated 1908 comes this fine picture of the "Lincoln Highway between Council Bluffs and Omaha." The picture is the approach to Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge, paved with granite stones. The card came from…
Today
Today...a wider Broadway connects the cities of Council Bluffs and Omaha, and even then it is frequently congested with traffic near Playland Park at right, and a fast building south side of the street, at left.