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Council Bluffs Changing Scene: This is the south side of Broadway looking west from Main Street as it appeared in 1903. In the foreground is the First National Bank Building and behind it the four-story Council Bluffs Savings Bank. The…

Citizens in derby hats and high button shoes stood stiffly in front of the old First National Bank in this 1887 picture. The Kimball and Champ Building stood at the corner of Main St. and Broadway. The First National was one of the earliest city…

Money-Studded Ribbon . . . is cut by Miss Council Bluffs to open the drive-up TV banking service at City National Bank. Assisting with the ribbon cutting are Robert Turner, chairman of the board, and Roland Tornblom, president.

Broadway, looking west from Fourth street, in 1936

The common wall joining the First National Bank and the Beno building on West Broadway has become a $13,000 stumbling block in proposed demolition of the long-vacant Beno, Wickham, and Kresge buildings. Mayor Tom Hanafan said he would veto a…

Tony Payne, President, First National Bank, Council Bluffs, Iowa

Ball, Dale and Sylvia
Midlands Corp.

Discussing the robbery...is Lorance White who shows reporters a pair of shears he intended to throw at the suspect if he got close enough.

Loading Over $61,000 In Bills . . . are deputy U.S. Marshals Jesse Lathrum and Mark Hayes of Des Moines, who transported the money to the First National Bank. The money was stolen in the June 30, 1971 holdup of the bank's westside office.