Things Have Changed...since large brick home [of George A. Keeline ] was torn down. Now standing on the site is the home of City Building Inspector Oscar Biesendorfer. The tree has grown.
The A.B. Walker home stood at 705 Sixth Ave. in 1887. Building had an iron pipe fence around it. Streets were unpaved. Walker was a real estate dealer.
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Today...the same residence is owned by Mrs. Mary Loper. The projection in the rear has become a separate building, occupied by Mr. and Mrs. J.C. Budatz.
This is the Council Bluffs Mail Terminal as it appear in 1887, when it was known as the Union Pacific Transfer. A hotel, one of the finest in the nation, was housed in the three-story brick building. It was patronized largely by railroad workers and travelers. Many antiques from the hotel may be found in local homes today. Three old type steam engines are pulled up outside the terminal. Mail was carted from the cars by hand.
Today...a modern building, remodeled in 1938, has replaced the old brick terminal. The hotel is gone. Diesel trains from eight of the nations leading railroads pull into the unloading sheds where the mail is thrown into automatic converyers[sic]. The bulk of mail handled here is for western states.
Looking up Main Street toward Broadway this was the picture in 1887. Groneweg and Schoentgen were wholesale grocers. other businesses occupied the two buildings immediately north of the grocery warehouse. The wooden building with the horse tied in front was a blacksmith shop. A sign in the lower right corner advertised the 'Chicago Restaurant With the Best Meals in the City." [photo print captioned: East Side Main Street]
Today...there have been additions and deletions. The grocery warehouse has become the Morphy Drug Co. and a parking lot occupies the spot where the other two brick buildings were located. Magarrell and Co., heating contractors, fill the spots used by the blacksmith shop and the lot with the dilapidated fence. Up the street is the Breeders Supply Co.
Looking west from side of bluff between 10th and 11th Avenue (back of 3rd Street School House). Flood of April 25, 1881.
View of Council Bluffs during the Missouri River flood of 1881
View of the Missouri River west of Council Bluffs during the flood of 1881
Make Much Progress on 3 Missouri River Dams Earth-moving Ceases . . .
Invading the Missouri River . . . near Pierre, S.D., is Oahe Dam, now 5 percent complete. Pyramid of earth in upper center is completed 1,500-foot section of dam. Sheet pile cut-off wall shown being driven in trench to right of square embankment section.
First Harnessing of Missouri River . . . in South Dakota was completed this year at Fort Randall Dam. All Missouri River water is now flowing through tubes in main embankment at left. Closure section built this year is at center. - Army Photo
Proposed Missouri River development plan, 1971
Mosquito Creek in foreground, showing levee break into gasoline tanks farm.
The Poudre in flood, looking west from the Oak Street Bridge, May 21, 1904
Looking East on Broadway from Eleventh Street, Council Bluffs, IA
Railroad switch engine pulling off stuck truck on west side of North Western RR city depot, about 4 p.m.