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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.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Just 26 years ago this month Pearl Street, along the east side of Bayliss Park, looked like this following a storm that brought wind, hail, and rain. Broken branches littered the street, while hail whitened the ground.…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Back 36 years ago, the row boat dock at Lake Manawa looked like this. The amusement park was in full swing on the north shore of the lake, which was a prominent recreation center for Southwest Iowa. This picture is…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--A 1912 post card rom the collection of Art Rogers, 130 Park Ave., shows the entrance and pavilion at Fairmount Park. Easy access to the park at that time was by open streetcar, shown at left. Flower planters, brick…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Streetcars played an important role in everyday life here when this photo of Broadway--looking west from the Masonic Temple--was taken in 1908. There are three trams in the photo. The only other visible means of…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Back in 10--, when this picture was taken, Lake Manawa contained plenty of water. original quarters of the Fish and Game Club were on the top floor of this building. The first floor contained a saloon and gambling…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Following World War I, when the business section was decorated for the return of Unit K, the Liberty Theater and adjoining buildings on Broadway between Scott and Sixth Streets looked like this. Admissions to the…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--About 1892 the Omaha and Council Bluffs Railway and Bridge Co. barns at Twenty-eighth St. and Avenue A, were little more than a shelter constructed of corrugated metal over a wood frame. This old photo comes from A.J.…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--In 1912 when automobiles were still somewhat of a hobby instead of a necessity, this garage at 45 N. Main St. was being operated by John A. Franks. Next door was the machine shop run by Fred Duerr, with the tower of…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Near the end of the 1800's, this picture was taken on Main Street, looking south from First Avenue. The occasion was the parade of the Gentry Dog and Pany Show. posters noted the price at 15 and 25 cents. At top left…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--About the turn of the century, 615 and 617 S. Main St. looked this way. the buildings housed the William Welch coal and wood yard, left, and the Brown and Wesner drug store. Rough paving covered Main Street, , as…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Kimball Bros. Elevator Works at Ninth St. and Eleventh Ave., appeared like this in 1897, according to an illustration in The Trans-Mississippian publication. The business moved to Council Bluffs from Anamosa in 1892,…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--From a high cliff above Pierce Street, this is how Council Bluffs looked in 1897. At center is the Masonic Temple. To its right is the Oddfellows building and at extreme right is the steeple of St. Peter's Church. …
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--In 1898, The Council Bluffs High School Cadets were a crack drill team. They are lined up for a picture on Willow Avenue, just west of Pearl St. This old photograph comes from Ed Welch of 331N. [sic] 7th St.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--The Conrad Geise and Son's Brewery occupied some 20 acres between Frank and Oak Streets on Broadway when this picture was taken in 1898. From a Trans-Mississippi Exposition booklet on Council Bluffs, the picture…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--An illustration appearing in the Historical Atlas of Iowa, printed in 1875, indicated this was the residence of C.R. Scott, Esq., of Council Bluffs. The old book belongs to Mrs. K.R. Magarrell, 1751 Canning St.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--In the 1880s, Broadway and Pearl Street looked like this copy of an old picture in the files of the City Water Works. On the corner was the Burlington Railroad ticket office in the Everett building. Real Estate…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--About 50 years ago, the old wooden bridge across an open Indian Creek at Frank St. was being replaced with a "modern" concrete bridge. Here is an old photo that's been in the Jeff Brunow family for many years.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--a popular spot in the late 1800s was the Tremont House, at Ninth St. and Broadway, on the northwest corner. Sign on the front reads "Meals 25 cents." This old print was found by Fred Brunow in the attic of a home he…
Council Bluffs Changing Scene
Council Bluffs Changing Scene--Broadway west from Scott St. took on a drab look the first week of April 1952. The city threatened by Missouri River flooding, sandbags wallowed hog-like in the center of the business district. Nearly all business…