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Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is Broadway as it appeared in 1969, according to a penciled note on the original stereo view card. Shown is the section between Market and Madison Streets, now N. Second and N. First Streets. A check of old city…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Bloomer School building at the corner of Willow Ave. and South Seventh St., is shown as it appeared on the original dedication program of August 26, 1881. Accompanying this picture of the new school was the program and,…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--About 70 years ago at 529 South Main St. was the first of Holst & Appel, a combination grocery store and bar room, with Jacob Appel, proprietor. Jacob was the father of Bernie Appel, 223 Stutsman St., who turned up in…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--"Big Mary," as the old time horse drawn ladder wagon of the Council Bluffs Fire Department was known among firemen, posed in front of the old Number 4 fire station at First St. and Broadway in 1888.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is Bechtele's European Hotel as it stood at 336-338 W. Broadway, around 1885. A hand card on the hotel reads "Streetcars pass the door to and from all trains." Broadway was a dirt road. This old picture belongs…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Back in 1898, this building at No. 6 Pearl St. was occupied by the Morris Railroad Shoe House. The operator, William C. Morris, is in the doorway. Note the window reflection of the old Council Bluffs Savings Bank,…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--In 1884 when carriage factories were common business in Council Bluffs, E.T. Waterman operated this one at 45 N. Main St. here Waterman, with his crew, and two of his fancy models are pictured in front of the factory.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--In 1881, at the head of Glen Ave., and just under the Glendale reservoir, stood the "gate house." The small brick building housed the valve control that took care of water from the reservoir of the City Water Works.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Another carriage factory is shown at 129 West Broadway back in 1886. This plant was the first carriage factory of E.T. Waterman, who later moved to N. Main St. The picture comes from Mrs. Edna Holst, 202 Stutsman St.,…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--On De. 15, 1908, it was Omaha Day at the National Horticultural Congress being held at the Council Bluffs Auditorium. Note the autos of those day, the wooden bridge across Indian Creek, at right, and fancy trim on the…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is the Glendale water reservoir and caretaker's house as they appeared before 1900. The original residence had two stories. Water for the house was drawn by bucket from the reservoir, according to Harry Pfeiffer,…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This was the oldest house west of Fourteenth Street as it appeared in the early 1900s. At 131 S. 15th St., the house was built in 1869 by John Morris, a Union Pacific employe [sic]. Miss Nellie Morris, daughter of the…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Between 1873 and 1880, this building at 144 West Broadway was the harness and saddle factory as well as the home of Frank Riaski, shown here in the doorway.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This was Broadway Pumping Station in 1882 when West Broadway as little more than a trail through corn fields. Center is the original steam pump house, at left the operator's residence and right the reservoir. This…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This frame building at 546-548 West Broadway was a popular spot here in 1883, with the M. Marcus Clothing Store at right, and Mrs. Metcalf's [sic] Millinery Store at left.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Only five years ago Broadway, west from Ninth St., looked like this, with business buildings, brick paving and lots of railroad tracks to cross. In the foreground are the rails of the street car company.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--The E.T. Waterman home at 17 Voorhis St. is shown in about 1893. The one-story brick house was the scene of the wedding of Mrs. Edna Holst, daughter of the Watermans, who now lives at 202 Stutsman St.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Back in 1873, this section of Broadway--the south side extending east from Main Street--was a busy part of Council Bluffs. The large building on the right was occupied by the Bluff City Printing House, J. Mueller music…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--The Quaker Baking Company at Scott and Mynster Sts, on the northeast corner, in 1935, with a large fleet of delivery trucks was the city's largest bakery.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--The old Twentieth Avenue School as it appeared just a few years before the new building was built at Twentieth Avenue and S. 10th St. Started out as a four room building before 1900, the old building was built in…