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Bridges I584.tif
Photograph of Interstate 480 Bridge during construction, May 1966. Connects Broadway (Council Bluffs) to Douglas Street (Omaha).

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Work on the Interstate 80 bridge at Spring Street is now centered near the Nebraska end, with less than 400 feet of deck to be paved. This picture shows the section of the bridge between a paving machine and the Nebraska abutment, which is partially…

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An earth fill, towering 30 to 40 feet above the floor of this valley in Rockford Township about three miles east of Loveland, will carry Interstate Highway 80 across the valley and over the concrete drainage chute shown under construction. Looking…

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Hills Are Leveled . . . by workmen and equipment of the S.E. Gustafson Construction Co. of Sioux Falls, S.D. The huge dirt movers will move over 2 million cubic yards of earth from the hills in construction of the two-and one-half-mile strip of…

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Construction on Interstate 80 diagonal from northwest of Neola to the proposed intersection with I-29 at the old Council Bluffs airport is on schedule. Two-thirds of the grading work was completed before winter weather halted that phase. Work on the…

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Three Million Cubic Yards . . . of dirt will be moved in the 20-odd mile diagonal. Cuts through hills, such as this about 1.5 miles south of Weston, will provide fairly level driving. This bridge will carry county road traffic over the four-lane…

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Three Levels Of Traffic . . . will use these two bridges and the east-west Interstate 80 route east of the intersection of the Interstate and Highway 64 north of Neola. Top bridge will channel traffic from the westbound Interstate 80 route south over…

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A gap of about 200 feet remains to be closed for completion of the steel frame for the new Interstate Highway 80 bridge, said Gerald Rainwater, superintendent for John F. Beasley Company of Texas, erection contractor. "We hope to close the gap by…

Interstate_Hwy_29_09_01_1968_001.jpg
These steel pilings - resembling the bony structure of a huge fish stuck in a sand dune - will provide support for a bridge on Interstate 29-80. Work shown here is one of the many phases in the highway project. This span west of Highway 192 on…

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Paving machinery dots the panorama of the Interstate 80 diagonal intersection with the east-west I-80 route north of Neola as workmen complete the project. Paving between the intersection and Council Bluffs is now complete according to…

Interstate_Hwy_System_05_29_1957_001.jpg
This aerial photograph of Council Bluffs shows the route of the Interstate Highway System (heavy black lines) as it affects the area west of Sixteenth Street. In the center of the picture is the major interchange that will carry traffic between…

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By Christmas, Concrete Pavement . . . will have inched its way along Interstate 80 (2) from Highway 375 (1) onto the approaches (3) to twin spans across the Rock Island Railroad piggy-back yards. The overpasses will link I-80 to I-29.

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Symbolic Linking...of the two states is performed by Nebraska Gov. J.J. Exon, William Gray, chairman of the Iowa Highway Commission, and Council Bluffs Mayor Joseph B. Katelman.

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Nadine Rey, a youth life educator from France, plays backgammon with a client at the Christian Home. Rey is at CHA under an exchange program. Nonpareil photo by Steve Glowacki.

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Atlantic Police, Iowa State Patrol and Cass County Sheriff's officers escort Dennis Edward Elliott, 28, of Red Oak from Cappel's Ace Hardware Store in Atlantic after and eight-hour standoff Tuesday morning. Elliott and Morgan Lee Jensen, 21, of…
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