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City Manager Makes Things Happen Here
Staff Meetings . . . each Monday morning is how City Manager Don Harmon starts off the week. Harmon, at head of table in top center, feels that inflation is one of the biggest problems facing Council Bluffs city government. Some needed services have…
Harmon Says Job Completed; Resigns
Reflecting On . . . his 10 years as Council Bluffs city manager is Don Harmon only minutes after the council accepted his resignation Wednesday night. Harmon said he bore no grudges or bitterness. He plans to continue public works but definitely…
Coffee Honors City Manager
City employees sponsored a coffee at the Community Hall this morning to give City Manager Don Harmon a warm send-off as he prepares to spend his last day on the job Tuesday. Shown here at the coffee, attended by several hundred, are Gordon Abel, city…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--This is how the 100 block on West Broadway looked in 1935. At left is the old No. 4 fire barn. Center buildings are garages. At right is a used car lot.
Today
Today...the same block has changed considerably within the last 21 years. overhead trolley wires and brick paving have disappeared. The old fire station was removed for a grocery store, the garages have new fronts, and a laundry service building…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Just 20 years ago, when this photo was taken, the Quaker Baking Co. was operating at Scott and Mynster Streets. At that time the bakery was an old establishment in Council Bluffs--and the building an oldtimer, too. In…
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Today...the city's newest offstreet parking lot is ready for operation on the site of the former Quaker Baking Co. at Scott and Mynster Streets. Parking meters will be installed on the posts. The First Christian Church as at the left.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Built around 1850, this was the first meeting place of Council Bluffs Lodge 49 of the Oddfellows. It was on the southeast corner of Stutsman and Pierce Streets. The date of the photo is not known, but it is from the…
Today
Today...the southeast corner of Pierce and Stutsman Streets is a residential area. The IOOF lodge is in much larger quarters at 400 W. Broadway. This is another of the many changes that are constantly taking place in Council Bluffs.
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Today...on the historic site of the old Clawsen property--and one of Council Bluffs' oldest building spots--stands a bowling alley, used car lot and ice cream store. This picture looks southeast at the intersection of Broadway and State Street.…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--The Kursal at Lake Manawa in 1904 was a popular spot about the turn of the century. it was reached only by boat on the south shore of the lake, and it offered bathing, eating and entertainment. About 1907 there was a…
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Today...The South shore of Lake Manawa furnishes only fishing and picnicking facilities. It is kept up by the state conservation commission and is without buildings of any sort. Here, looking toward the lake from the state park area, are some of…
Friendliness Is Shared By Hastings Divided By Ocean
Only Church . . . now active in Hastings, Iowa, the tree-shaded Methodist Church is a center of much of the town's activity.
. . . How It Was Named
Hastings, Iowa road sign
'Flight Of Black Cutworm' One Reason For Trap - Never Know What Will Drop In On Bug-Catcher
Big Bug-Catcher . . . near Hastings is tended by Dick Hyde.
Lots Of Interest In The Fate Of 4 White Pillars - Problem: Getting Them Down Intact
Contemplating Columns . . . at the old Hastings School are Kenneth Grindle, Hastings, and Lowell Mooney, Shenandoah.
Revision Of Ordinances Puts Hastings Up To Date - Several Ancient Laws Are Scraped
Checking New Ordinances . . . are Mayor Elmo Hites and councilman George Clark in front of Hastings' town building.
Hastings, Iowa
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad depot at Hastings, Iowa, October 20, 1968
Hastings Is Planning To Whoop It Up - Centennial Event Set June 20-22
Waiting At The Station . . . along the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad during a dress rehearsal for the Hastings Centennial are Jim Burrington, Miss Connie Hall, Paul Taylor, Mrs. Marcia Vanderpool and Dan Vanderpool.
Hastings Notes Its History - Past Recounted For Centennial
Teaming Up For A Celebration . . . are four Hastings citizens in front of the Post Office building - once the town's drug store. Looking over on e of the pint-sized ponies is Wayne Crawford and others are Gerald Brazeal, owner of the wagon and team,…