This picturesque entrance should be quickly recognized by members of a number of lodges in town. Nonmembers may find it easy to spot because of its prominent location. Can you identify it?
Answer: Entrance to the Masonic Temple auditorium, Fourth…
Someday, these bulky sections of pipe will be draining rural roads. Right now, trimmed in snowy frosting, they're doing a balancing act. Recognize the location?
Answer: The 5-foot metal culverts are stored in the Pottawattamie County equipment…
A document about railway transportation in Iowa published as a reference aid for teachers and students in conjunction with the Iowa Centennial in 1946.
A wintry park scene forms a background for this unusual bit of architecture. The crisscrossing metal rods flank the patio at a popular picnic spot. Can you identify it?
Answer: The north walkway alongside the Roberts Park shelter.
Stone carvings give an attractive, and appropriately Old World, appearance to this well used doorway in downtown Council Bluffs. The rooms beyond the door have been the scene of countless club meetings, dances and other social programs. Can you…
On a cold December day, this mechanical installation appears to be a long way from necessary. But it is a vital part of an important industry. Recognize it?
Answer: Ice loading machinery at the Pacific Fruit Express dock, 3300 Fourteenth Ave.
This handsome plaque is fastened to the brick wall near the doorway of one of the newer buildings in Council Bluffs. Several hundred persons pass it daily during their regular business trips to the building. Can you identify the location?
A new 36-car, coast-to-coast mail train departed 10 minutes early as it passed westward through Council Bluffs Saturday night. The train was to leave here at 7:15 but pulled out at 7:05. The train stopped at the former mail terminal on South…
The fine bronze buffalo head which looks down from the east portal as all trains pass over the Union Pacific railroad bridge here.--Nonpareil Engraving.