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A Drug Abuse Center . . . serving nine counties in Southwest Iowa may be housed in the old Hamburg Community Hospital at Hamburg. The 26-bed hospital has been vacant since the new hospital, Grape Memorial, was occupied.

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Proposed Hospital . . . and extended treatment center at Hamburg as seen by the architect. The facility initially will include 40 beds in the hospital wing and 40 beds in the treatment center.

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Going Up In Hamburg . . . is a combination Legion Hall and bowling lanes. And gathered on this Main Street corner are some of the men responsible for Hamburg's growth - Jack Douglas, Dick Dugan, John Gottsche and Miller Payne.

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Filling Gas Tank . . . at "peacetime" prices is Simon Barrett, who has been selling gasoline at the edge of Hamburg for 16 years.

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In Hamburg Home . . . are Mrs. Charles Doiel and two of her seven children - Debby and Mary.

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Good Cold Spring Water . . . flows from this pipe year around at Hamburg.

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This Pioneer Home . . . in Hamburg has been purchased by the Methodist Church.

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Only Remaining Evidence . . . of the early French settlement which preceded Hamburg is this headstone from a cemetery long since farmed over.

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The Name Of Gottsche . . . has run through the history of Hamburg for 98 of its 100 years. Pioneer head of the clan was John, in the picture, and more recently William, right, his son John, and presently, Steve and Karen.

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Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Back in 1900, some 50 horses and a large amount of hay were kept in the Welch transfer barn on South Tenth St., between Fourth and Fifth Aves. One of the transfers [sic] four-horse teams is hitched to a load of lumber. …

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Today...the Dahl Battery and Tire Co. is now located at 337 W. Broadway, which is a new building since the older picture was made. The Dahl building is flanked on one side by a cleaning business and the other by a youngsters [sic] clothing shop.…

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Today...the Iowa Liquor Store has been transformed from the old three-story building to a modern face two-story affair. To the left is the Council Bluffs Gas Co. building. And instead of hitching posts along the sidewalk, parking meters dot the way.

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Council Bluffs Changing Scene--About 1900 when 33 S. Main St. was a storage warehouse for the Wm. Welch storage and transfer line, and all the drays were horse drawn, the Fryer printing house and Long wallpaper shop occupied the neighboring…

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Today...the same buildings have kept up with the times, with a series of renovations and remodeling. The most recent remodeling was that of the building at the extreme right, following a fire several years agao.

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Council Bluffs Changing Scene--These brick buildings at First St. and Broadway, erected about 100 years ago, were the first of their type in Council Bluffs. This photo was reproduced from "Early Days At Council Bluffs" by Babbitt, a book at the Free…

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Today...the area appears like this from atop the hill at the end of Clark Avenue, the nearest high spot left in the district. About the only identifying feature that can be compared to the old photo is the portion of the clay bank, upper right, on…

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Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This photo was taken before 1900 by the late Dr. F.W. Dean. It looks north from the top of Gibraltar, a high cliff just east of Abraham Lincoln High School. Dr. Dean lived in the house at lower left, which faced…

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Packing To Move . . . back to the farm is the Lester Hamann family. Patricia is in the wheelchair. The others are Mrs. Hamann, Karen and Sharen, and Mr. Hamann.
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