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Know Your Scenes:
These initials decorate a public building in Council Bluffs.
Answer: The initials - TJHS - are on the Thomas Jefferson High School Field House.
Answer: The initials - TJHS - are on the Thomas Jefferson High School Field House.
Tags: Know Your Scenes, TJHS Field House
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These ornate columns are a sample of the architecture featured on a well-known Broadway building. Inside is a business that specializes in entertainment.
Answer: The columns flank the entrance to the Strand Theater, 554 W. Broadway.
Answer: The columns flank the entrance to the Strand Theater, 554 W. Broadway.
Tags: Know Your Scenes, Strand Theater
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Fancy stonework forms an elaborate crown for a publicly owned landmark which has been lauded as a link with the past and castigated as an eyesore.
Answer: The building is the Pottawattamie County Jail on the courthouse grounds.
Answer: The building is the Pottawattamie County Jail on the courthouse grounds.
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Thirsty citizens are making this spot one of the most popular attractions at a park on the south side this summer. It is part of an improvement constructed last fall.
Answer: Drinking fountain at the Sunset Park shelter.
Answer: Drinking fountain at the Sunset Park shelter.
Tags: Know Your Scenes, Sunset Park
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Grille work in the light and airy style caps the entrance to an apartment building near the central business district just off Broadway. Recognize it?
Answer: The grille decorates the entrance to Ja-Ru-Ka Court, 30 N. 6th St.
Answer: The grille decorates the entrance to Ja-Ru-Ka Court, 30 N. 6th St.
Tags: Ja-Ru-Ka Court, Know Your Scenes
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This fancy architecture, which doubles as a pigeon roost, is atop a well-known building in Council Bluffs.
Answer: The fancy work is on the Strand Theater Building, 554 W. Broadway.
Answer: The fancy work is on the Strand Theater Building, 554 W. Broadway.
Tags: Know Your Scenes, Strand Theater
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Wine is a product of Council Bluffs, as can be seen by this sign framed in vines.
Answer: The sign is on the building of the Council Bluffs Grape Growers Association, 900 S. 7th St.
Answer: The sign is on the building of the Council Bluffs Grape Growers Association, 900 S. 7th St.
Know Your Scenes:
Tower on an old and prominent transportation building in Council Bluffs.
Answer: The tower is trackside of the Chicago Rock Island depot at Sixteenth Avenue and Main Street.
Answer: The tower is trackside of the Chicago Rock Island depot at Sixteenth Avenue and Main Street.
KOIL Radio, Fairmount Park
Photograph of the KOIL Radio station looking from the operator's booth into the studio.
Tags: Fairmount Park, KOIL, photograph, radio
KOIL Radio, Fairmount Park
Photograph of the KOIL Radio studio with orchestra and performers.
Tags: Fairmount Park, KOIL, music, photograph, radio
KOIL Radio, Fairmount Park
Photograph of two women in the KOIL Radio studio - Fairmount Park, Council Bluffs (Iowa).
Tags: Fairmount Park, KOIL, music, musician, photograph
KOIL Radio, Fairmount Park
Photograph of people waiting in the foyer of the KOIL Radio station in Council Bluffs (Iowa).
Tags: Fairmount Park, KOIL, photograph, radio
Koreans Seek New Life - In Irwin Community
Chatting On The Steps . . . of the Meng Ho Choe family of Irwin are Mrs. Goldie McGee, Meng Ho, his wife, Honyup Ho, and their three children, Kwan Soo, 10, Kwoung San, 7, and You Kyoung, 3. Meng Ho's family arrived from South Korea just a few weeks…
Labor Day Parade
Photograph of a Labor Day Parade taken from the corner of Scott and Broadway in Council Bluffs, Iowa
Tags: 1902, Labor Day, parades, photograph
Labor Day Parade
Photograph of a Labor Day Parade, corner of Scott and Broadway - Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Tags: 1902, Labor Day, parades, photograph
Labor Day Parade
Photograph of a Labor Day Parade, corner of Scott and Broadway - Council Bluffs, Iowa.
Tags: 1902, Labor Day, parades, photograph
Labor On To Hold The Water
Omaha, NE, April 18 . . . Night falls on a chain of volunteers as they pass sandbags in an effort to contain the water in several sand boils which uprooted the pavement on Pershing Boulevard in the north section of the city. Floodlights light the…
Tags: CB Floods, Flood of 1952, Missouri River
Lace Trimming
Lace Trimming...furnished by the cold weather gave a touch of beauty to a lowly drainage ditch at Twenty-third Avenue and Twenty-fourth Street Friday. The effect was created by hoarfrost on the dead weeds. Nonpareil Photo by Jack Kennedy.
Tags: Best Pictures 1967-1970, frost, Jack Kennedy
Lad Kicks Cousin--And Possibly Saves His Life; 'Educated' Two Years Ago
Raising His "Dukes"...to show his cousin Terry Hansen his bandages is Richard Turpen.