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The new visitor's center at the DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge is taking shape, with about 80 percent of the major concrete work now completed. Jack Wilson, construction manager, said work has started on the roof and interior, and there should be no…

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

Installation of a new computer for the Area 13 Data Processing Center at the old Treynor Missile Base site is expected to be completed early next week. The computer was being installed this week. Inspecting the equipment are Ed Somer, advisory field…

Parade Autos . . . include a 1924 Model T Ford owned and displayed by a Malvern Ford man, R.W. Salyers of Salyers Auto Co., in business since 1910. Salyers has another Model T which was made in 1922.

Centennial parade on Broadway.

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Photograph of a float in the Council Bluffs Centennial Parade

Photograph of a stagecoach in the Council Bluffs Centennial Parade.

Five photographs of buildings near Playland Park. Several were from the Centennial Exhibition of 1936.
Horse and Cattle Barn
Sheep Barn
Home Show Building
Poultry and Swine Building
and 4H Girls Exhibit Building

Sprucing up a centennial bell at the Oak Street Fire Station are B Shift members Capt. Jerry Carter, Firefighter Don Owens and Engineer Larry Olson. The bell was cast for the Bluffs Fire Department in 1876 and originally hung in the old Central Fire…

(top) A Giant Banner . . . proclaiming Modale's 100th anniversary celebration is stretched across a street in preparation for hanging by Mrs. Corinne Harker, Mrs. Kath Gilgren, Richard Marshall, Mrs. Shirley Cleaver and Mrs. Beverly Dietering.…

Burnie Kirkpatrick, caretaker at Fairview Cemetery checks one of the 27 grave stones which were overturned Thursday night by vandals. It will take several days to reset the stones Kirkpatrick said. Crews are also getting the cemetery ready for…

Celebration of Life Choir
formerly: C.B. Community Chorus

This is where Iowa State University started in 1868. On paper, the University was 10 years old before a preparatory class of 72 students enrolled in the fall of 1868. Regular classes began in March, 1868. The Main Building housed the entire college,…

Four photographs of Cedar Motel

Inspecting A Case...of original Baldwin and Dodge banknotes is Ron Searcy. The 1856 notes will be among several historical exhibits displayed in the Council Bluffs Savings Bank lobby this week as part of the bank's 125th anniversary celebration.
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