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Back On Its Feet
The Park Department's antique horse watering trough at the junction of Main and Pearl Streets has been set up again after being knocked down by an automobile recently. Neighborhood resident Phil Danselmo examines the king-sized horse bite from the…
Reincarnate Bluffs History - Trough Back In Place
An Early 1900s Street Scene . . . shows the original location of the horse watering trough at Broadway and Fourth Street. Horse-drawn buggies drove alongside the street cars on the cobblestone roadway. "I remember going into the old Woolworth store…
Reincarnate Bluffs History - Trough Back In Place
After Several Moves . . . about the city, the old horse watering trough that was presented to the city by the National Humane Alliance, founded by Hermon Lee Ensign in 1907, is re-erected Tuesday at Main and Pearl streets by the City Parks…
Horse Trough May Reappear - On South Main Street
This Horse-Watering Trough . . . in Burlington, VT, is an exact replica of the one the Council Bluffs Parks Board hopes to install at Main and Pearl Streets.
Building Saved, But Trophies Lost
Firefighters battle a blaze that destroyed the Hong Kong Restaurant east of Council Bluffs Monday.
Let's Chat . . . with Shui Huey
Shui Huey
Exotic Foods For Midwest - Far East Flavors Please
Uniform Slices . . . of bok choy, a Chinese green vegetable, are made with the speedy use of a cleaver as Yen Huey manipulates the razor-sharp instrument cutting the vegetable in a matter of seconds.
Exotic Foods For Midwest - Far East Flavors Please
Welcoming Guests . . . is hostess Shui Huey, who seats all patrons of the Hong Kong Restaurant.
Exotic Foods For Midwest - Far East Flavors Please
Only Two Days . . . is needed to sprout beans to make the ingredients for many Chinese foods. Yen Huey inspects the beans in an incubator especially designed for this purpose. These beans have been in the machine only a matter of hours.
Exotic Foods For Midwest - Far East Flavors Please
A Team Effort . . . results in a dish of chop suey in only 2 1/2 minutes. Wai Huey and Wai Pong Huey work over the woks that are heated by a symbolic five ring fire that produces tremendous heat. Constant stirring keeps the foods from burning before…
Chinese Open Authentic Restaurant Near The City
Managers Of The Recently Opened Hong Kong Restaurant . . . on Highway 92 are Shui, Wai and Yen Huey, natives of mainland China who now live in Omaha. The restaurant's furnishings are from Hong Kong.
Council Bluffs Changing Scene 1958
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Photo of Main Street, looking north from Broadway. City National Bank is pictured on the northwest corner.
Photo of Main Street, looking north from Broadway. City National Bank is pictured on the northwest corner.
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Photo of Main Street, looking north from the south side of Broadway; Clark Drug Company is pictured on northwest corner of Broadway and Main, and Washington School is visible in the distance. ca 1910
Photo of Main Street, looking north from the south side of Broadway; Clark Drug Company is pictured on northwest corner of Broadway and Main, and Washington School is visible in the distance. ca 1910
Bar Keeps Town On Map - Honey Creek Keeps Identity
The Way It Was . . . is captured in this decades-old photograph of the second Aeroplane Inn, once a fixture on the road from Council Bluffs to Missouri Valley. When the building burned down there was some concern for the post office which was located…
Old Boomer Hall Has Its Own Issue
Boomer Township Hall . . . was opened to voters again Tuesday as it has been in every election for more than a century. Located northeast of Honey Creek, it was originally a two-story structure until a tornado took off the top nearly 60 years ago.
Old Boomer Hall Has Its Own Issue
Warming His Feet . . . in front of the old wood-burning stove in Boomer Township Hall during Tuesday's election is Fred George, township clerk, while Chester Driver, voting judge at the hall, stokes the stove with a walnut log.
Honey Creek, Iowa
Reels Cemetery southeast of Honey Creek, Iowa
November 4, 1962
November 4, 1962
Real Puzzler: How Old Is 'The Brick'? - Answer Sought In Boomer Township
"The Brick" . . . has been serving the people of Boomer Township for many years but no one is certain just how many years.