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The fountain in Bayliss park gets a new coat of paint from city park employee Robert Hemmingsen. Plans to replace the landmark with a modern centerpiece have been set aside for this season. [accessed from NewsBank search of Council Bluffs Daily…

Spring Cleaning....The Bayliss Park Fountain is undergoing its initial stages of spring cleaning Wednesday, as park employee Norman Hensley[?] works on the top level. The fountain will be given a fresh spray coat as soon as a clean up is complete. …

211 West Broadway

Bayliss Park Fountain (brick, with lions); 2 children sitting on wall near it

photo of Bayliss Park Fountain, lit, at night

Corner of Pierce St. and Park Ave

201 West Broadway - Southwest corner of Park Ave & Broadway. Danish Hall.

1923 Yearbook (Annual) of Abraham Lincoln High School.

Volume 25.

Aidex Corp. I29 & HWY370

Aidex cleanup plans detailed. No date.
EPA suggests change to speed cleanups. No date.
Many samples taken, Aidex work in full swing. No date.
Aidex completes plant south of C.B. October 3, 1974
Bluffs company pinched…

The Aidex plan in 1983 when the cleanup project began. --Nonpareil file photo.
On back of photo - 1983

Officials discuss the completed of the Aidex Corp. plant Tuesday while standing near a ground water measuring well that reads ground water contamination levels. From left, Jim O'Neil, United States Corp of Engineers of Fort Crook, Neb. ; Jean…

This is the Aidex Corp. plant site in the summer of 1983. Removal of hazardous wastes, many of which were contained in barrels on the site, began in the spring of that year. -- Nonpareil file photo.

Three people standing outside on Aidex property. Left to right, one man in a hard hat, a woman, another man in a baseball cap.

To feed machine . . . an all hydraulic gantry crane sits high above wheels and rails to keep the hungry shredder's hopper full. Big jaws on the crane easily grab an auto off the pile of thousands on hand. The bodies are fed into the Alter yard from…

Finished product . . . of big shredder is shown by Tom Hale, account executive at Alters. Old autos are reduced to clean metal more or less the size of baseballs, and read for steel mills and foundrys over the United States and abroad to be recycled…

A giant shredding machine at Alter Co., 2603 Ninth Ave. capable of tearing up more than 1,000 old automobiles a day is ready for operation. Looking into the heart of the machine workmen are installing the 22 hammers that do the shredding, each hammer…