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Symbolizing The Change...in Crescent in the past few years is the Esancy Addition admired here by Crescent Mayor Mark Hunter. The streets in the addition are concrete instead of the oiled gravel that for years served as the only street surface in…

Crescent, Iowa
(Includes Crescent Ski Hills)
File #1
to 12/3/1979

Ready To Roll...for a ride in the fire engine are Ralph Pratt, Vernon Miller, Harry Watts, Jake Brummer and Mayor Jiggs Pratt behind the wheel. But they'd like to see the rig ready to fight fires.

photo of the K&K Little Corner Store and Breadeaux Pizza in Crescent Iowa

People Still Care...about Reels Cemetery in Boomer Township. The cemetery is well kept although no one has been buried there in years. However, the township clerk, Billy Walters is baffled as to what happened to the records for the cemetery.

Taking It Easy...during Saturday's Crescent Fun Days Parade is an unidentified big-wheel cycler. His ride in the back of a pickup wa part of what is called the biggest small town parade.

Local ski lovers...needn't travel far from home--Council Bluffs' own slopes, Crescent Hills, are open again, complete with man-made snow.

Lodge serves as a focal point at Mount Crescent.

Highway signs welcome motorists to Crescent.

Postal employee Erma Hanson of Honey Creek sorts through daily mail at the Crescent Post Office.

Crescent, Iowa
File #2
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See also: Arcadia Alcohol Refining Co.