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Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Pierce Street is paved for the first time in 1903 by this crew of workmen who used muscle power rather than mechanical mixers. One workmen [sic] is throwing water onto a pile of crushed stone. Cement will be added and…
Today...
Today...The Abraham Lincoln football field stands at the site of the old school. The picture was taken from Fifth Avenue bluffs. The lighted field can be seen from virtually all over the city. It is named Kirn Field, in honor of former A.L.…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is the old Council Bluffs High School as it appeared in 1887 when it served the entire city, In 1900 Abraham Lincoln was built and it was the lone high school until the addition of Thomas Jefferson in the early…
Today...
Today...fast trains use the modern steel Union Pacific Railroad Bridge at approximately the same location. The bridge is above the reach of high water and boats pass underneath as they travel both up and down the deeper Missouri River.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This was a temporary Missouri River crossing of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in 1872. The bridge was raised above ice level on pilings. During the summer months railroad cars were reportedly ferried…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--The old Citizens State Bank was one of five banks available to Southwest Iowans in 1889. It stood on the corner of Main St. and First Ave. in what was known as the Shugart-Beno block. Other offices in the building…
Today
Today...diesel locomotives like this switch engine in the Union Pacific yard move smoothly across millions of miles of U.S. tracks. Burning of oil has cut down on coal consumption to the point where cinders are becoming scarce for city streets. …
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is one of the early "Iron Horses" that chugged into Council Bluffs as the city became a leading railroad point shortly before the turn of the century. The billowing black smoke and the old fashioned "coal car"…
New Store Plans Opening
Bill Clark, manager of the new B.F. Goodrich store at Broadway and Twenty-fifth Street, said Saturday the store's grand opening will be the first week in December. The store is presently open for business.
Barry & Ike:
Former President Dwight Eisenhower and Sen. Barry Goldwater, GOP presidential candidate, talk things over before filming of TV campaign file on Ike's Gettysburg, PA farm. - AP Wirephoto
Goldwater, Barry M.
Sen. Goldwater And Wife Peggy . . . acknowledge standing ovation at the Cow Palace. - AP Wirephoto
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.