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Golden Spike/Golden Spike Days
A major attraction of UP's Golden Spike Centennial Expo Train that will visit Council Bluffs Sept. 26-27-28 is the colorful Expo car. It houses 19 displays telling the story of the building of the railroad from the earliest surveys right up to the…
Golden Spike/Golden Spike Days
Expo Train Coming to Bluffs...Union Pacific Railroad's Golden Spike Centennial Expo train will visit Council Bluffs this Friday, Saturday and Sunday and will be on display in the U.P. yards south of the Golden Spike monument, Ninth Avenue and…
Golden Spike/Golden Spike Days
The Golden Spike Monument, Council Bluffs, IA
April 1939
April 1939
The Wedding Of The Rails
On May 10th, 1869, the last spike . . a Golden Spike . . was driven and America was united by the transcontinental Pacific Railway. The Union Pacific's locomotive No. 119 and the Central Pacific's "Jupiter" inched together, finally touching nose to…
Action Group Would Like To Move The Golden Spike - To 'More Suitable' Location
Golden Spike . . . Ninth Avenue and Twenty-first Street
Seek $2000 to Renovate Golden Spike
Sketch Of Plans . . . for the Golden Spike monument. The drawing at left shows how the Junior Chamber of Commerce will beautify the grounds. The sketch at right is a perspective of the monument.
In Council Bluffs, You May Stand In Abe's Footprints
Golden Spike Monument . . . commemorates completion of the first transcontinental railroad.
Beauties And History
In preparation for the "Union Pacific" motion picture, Cecil De Mille did a great deal of research work, necessarily. His delving into history took him into the old Harper magazine, and he is shown here with the star of the picture, Barbara Stanwyck,…
Golden Spike/Golden Spike Days
Residents in old fashioned clothing in celebration of Golden Spike Days in Council Bluffs.
Judge: Witness Not Credible
Roger Goff
New Electronics Firm Grows Fast; To Expand - Top Executives Tour Bluffs Plant
Reviewing The "Success" . . . of their ventures are Leo I. Meyerson, L.A. Caster and George William Miller.
Globe Electronics To Produce Tiny, 2-way Radio - 'Pocketphones' Will Go On Market In June
Tightening Case . . . on a test model of "Pocketphone" is roger Mace, vice president in charge of engineering for Globe Electronics.
Globe Electronics To Double Production Capacity In C.B. - Purchased By Rhode Island Corp.
On The Assembly Line . . . at Globe Electronics, Owen Meyerson and Leo Meyerson show George William Miller a new-type radio broadcasting set which can be used by untrained operations.
Today...at the Bryant-Main-Washington intersection
Today...at the Bryant-Main-Washington intersection is the fire department's Central Station. The old bell has been transplanted to the roof of the new building. The old sign lies in the attic. Indian Creek is underground. The Post Office has…
Glenwood State Hospital School File #2 1/29/1986-
A residence building at Glenwood State Hospital School
June 6, 1976
June 6, 1976
Glenwood State Hospital School File #1 to 01/28/1986
Glenwood State Hospital School February 18, 1973