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Sign Comes Down
The old sign designating the former Hotel Chieftain has been taken down, making way for the new Bluffs Towers in the renovated building. The 60-foot sign was taken down Tuesday. Riding a wooden box on an 85-foot dragline boom, iron workers Don and…
Big Boom
A 130-foot-high boom was needed Thursday morning to lift new elevator machinery to the roof of the Hotel Chieftain, which is being remodeled into apartments for the elderly. The big move required the closing of most of Pearl Street between Broadway…
Hotel Chieftain Is Remodeled
Former Lobby And Hotel Desk . . . resemble a disaster area, with stacks of hotel furniture being moved out by the former owner. The desk now serves as a control center for the contractor, Audino Construction Co. of Sioux City. The conversion is being…
Hotel Chieftain Is Remodeled
The former Hotel Chieftain, a landmark in Council Bluffs for more than 40 years, is being converted to a downtown residence for the elderly. In the meantime, the plaster, concrete and other debris comes tumbling down the oversize drainpipe attached…
Latest Delay In Remodeling Of Hotel Is 'Hot' Water
Water Fills Basement . . . in the Hotel Chieftain and the presence of electrical wires near the water may cause another delay in the building's remodeling.
What Will Happen To Murals?
In The Corn Room . . . of Hotel Chieftain the Iowa cornfield scene, also done by Grant Wood, covers four walls and is familiar to most residents of Council Bluffs. Corn shocks decorate wall behind Helen Burns, dial chief operator for the Northwestern…
What Will Happen To Murals?
Now That The Hotel Is To Be Sold . . . further effort on part of Sam Brown, president of Bluffs Homes Inc., purchasers of the hotel, will be made to place the paintings in responsible hands such as a museum. "We have had several requests for the…
What Will Happen To Murals?
Paintings by artist Grant Wood on the mezzanine floor of Hotel Chieftain have been offered to any organization that will remove and preserve them. Hotel owner Harry A. Wise Jr. is shown here with one mural titled "Entrance To Kanesville" done in 1927…
Plan Conversion Of Chieftain Into Retirement Home
Hotel Chieftain . . . would be purchased by a non-profit local corporation and renovated to provide 70 apartments for the low-income elderly.
Chieftain To Reopen Coffee Ship As Its Java Room
Furnished with indirectly-lighted leather booths and composition-top tables, the coffee shop at Hotel Chieftain will be opened Tuesday as the Java room. The cashier's booth is illuminated by fluorescent tubing.
Back On Its Feet
The Park Department's antique horse watering trough at the junction of Main and Pearl Streets has been set up again after being knocked down by an automobile recently. Neighborhood resident Phil Danselmo examines the king-sized horse bite from the…
Reincarnate Bluffs History - Trough Back In Place
An Early 1900s Street Scene . . . shows the original location of the horse watering trough at Broadway and Fourth Street. Horse-drawn buggies drove alongside the street cars on the cobblestone roadway. "I remember going into the old Woolworth store…
Reincarnate Bluffs History - Trough Back In Place
After Several Moves . . . about the city, the old horse watering trough that was presented to the city by the National Humane Alliance, founded by Hermon Lee Ensign in 1907, is re-erected Tuesday at Main and Pearl streets by the City Parks…
Horse Trough May Reappear - On South Main Street
This Horse-Watering Trough . . . in Burlington, VT, is an exact replica of the one the Council Bluffs Parks Board hopes to install at Main and Pearl Streets.
Building Saved, But Trophies Lost
Firefighters battle a blaze that destroyed the Hong Kong Restaurant east of Council Bluffs Monday.
Let's Chat . . . with Shui Huey
Shui Huey
Exotic Foods For Midwest - Far East Flavors Please
Uniform Slices . . . of bok choy, a Chinese green vegetable, are made with the speedy use of a cleaver as Yen Huey manipulates the razor-sharp instrument cutting the vegetable in a matter of seconds.
Exotic Foods For Midwest - Far East Flavors Please
Welcoming Guests . . . is hostess Shui Huey, who seats all patrons of the Hong Kong Restaurant.
Exotic Foods For Midwest - Far East Flavors Please
Only Two Days . . . is needed to sprout beans to make the ingredients for many Chinese foods. Yen Huey inspects the beans in an incubator especially designed for this purpose. These beans have been in the machine only a matter of hours.
Exotic Foods For Midwest - Far East Flavors Please
A Team Effort . . . results in a dish of chop suey in only 2 1/2 minutes. Wai Huey and Wai Pong Huey work over the woks that are heated by a symbolic five ring fire that produces tremendous heat. Constant stirring keeps the foods from burning before…