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School Superintendent Raj Chopra and his wife Sue show off a plaque and painting presented to Chopra at Iowa Western Community College Friday. Chopra was named Educator of the Year earlier by the Chamber of Commerce. He was presented the award at a…
Tool Teaches Old Knees New Tricks
Checking Arthroscope . . . readying it for diagnostic purposes are Mrs. Minnie Thornton, operating room supervisor, and Mrs. Linda Bryson, operating room technician at Jennie Edmundson Hospital.
Too much love
Too much love...from his brother sent Eugene Adkins of Little Sioux, front, to Mercy Hospital with a fractured leg. He joined Brian Jacobsen of 39 Happy Happy Hollow Blvd., who slipped on a rug and fractured his leg.
Toni Is Only Scratched In 60 M.P.H. Car Tumble; Near Miracle On Thanksgiving
Toni Dee Fletcher...laughs at torn overalls and bandaged fingers.
Tom Hanafan Files Papers For C.B. Mayor
Tom Hanafan
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…
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Today...the bridge has dwindled in use. It is now a single track bridge used exclusively for river crossing of five or six freight trains a day. No pedestrian or auto traffic use the bridge. Only half of the bridge floor is floored with railroad…
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Today...the building, with comparatively few changes on the exterior, houses the C.A. Olmstead market. However, the street level at the intersection of Benton St. and Broadway appears to have been raised several feet. on top, the building still…
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Today...New buildings have replaced not only those burned in 1925, but all others in the entire block, with the exception of one on the west side. Now a one way street, minus car tracks, Pearl Street has a more modern lok and shows the progress of…
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Today...the same spot in Fairmount Park is the center of a beautiful flower garden, nice lawn, beside a paved roadway, but has no street cars. This spot is near the upper end of the main part of the park, on the drive between Fairmount and E. Graham…
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Today...from the same position, a full addition of houses is nearly obscured by the heavy growth of trees. But most of those trees are in the lawns of homes built since 1919 when the sites were little more than pasture land. Now the streets are…
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Today...the location with the same home, some of the same trees looks different with the addition of a garage and some renovation and remodeling. It is now the home of Mr. and Mrs. J.B. Petrus and numbered 219 Frank St. A wall and drive have also…
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Today...the location is the site of the City Hall parking lot. The location is positively identified by the tower of Pottawattamie County Jail showing in the same position in both photographs.
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Today...modern buildings, with auto parking space, are on the same corner. They are the Broadway Super Valu, at left, and Broadway Cleaners drivein. They are on the northwest corner of the intersection.
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Today...Council Bluffs City Hall, built in 1940, now occupies the same site. Changed very little in the last 14 years, the building was built by the Works Progress Administration at a cost of slightly over $300,000.
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Today...even with a face lifting of new steps, added about 10 years ago, the exterior of Holy Family is much the same as when it was built in 1908.
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Today...the brick yard has disappeared and the ground is overgrown with small trees. A grain elevator is at left and the railroad yards in the background, also present in the 1904 picture, are almost obscured by the underbrush.
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Today...Broadway has smooth concrete surfacing along this stretch. The paving was done with modern equipment in a fraction of the time it took to surface streets in the early 1900s. This picture was taken from the Thirty-first St. corner, looking…
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Today...most of the building at right, formerly World Radio Laboratories, has been burned out. The corner drugstore is being remodeled to make room for the Broadway Viaduct, which will begin at Eighth St. Far down Broadway all buildings have been…
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Today...both streets are paved. Carson Avenue can barely be seen as it takes off downhill behind picket fence. Many homes along the east side of Grace Street still sit atop the large clay bank and have only rear access. Undergrowth on the bank…