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Historical Society of Pottawattamie County Member Journal
March 2003 Historical Society newsletter
Trinity Baptist To Dedicate New Education Unit
The Rev. Francis Hitch...places book on altar in Fellowship Hall. Junior workshop services will be conducted in this area each Sunday.
Second Baptist
The Second Baptist Church, Avenue B and Twenty-second street, began as a mission in 1889...
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Trinity has Parsonage For First Time in 67 Years; Hitch Family Will Occupy
Recently-purchased Parsonage...of Trinity Baptist Church is located at 2623 Avenue A. This is the first time since the church was started here in the late 1880s that it has had a parsonage.
Trinity Baptist Hopes To Begin 1959 In New Unit
Education Unit...at Trinity Baptist Church, facing Twenty-second St. and Avenue B, is now half completed.
Trinity Baptist To Dedicate New education Unit
New Education Unit...at Trinity Baptist Church has been completed and will be dedicated at special services Sunday. The addition will house classrooms and a pastor's study.
Trinity Baptist Structure Closed
Trinity Baptist Church...which was moved to this corner of 22nd Street and Avenue B a few years after 1890, is to be torn down and replaced as off-street parking for its worshippers.
New Work On Trinity Baptist
Miss Lola Thompson, 2419 Avenue E. talks about new construction on Trinity Baptist Church with worker Larry Wooley, 912 Cathy Lane. Miss Thompson, a long-time church member, is the former organist for the church.
The construction of the new front…
The construction of the new front…
Trinity Baptist closed its doors
This Brick Structure...will always be known by a number of families as Trinity Baptist Church's educational Unit. However, the church's senior members have disbanded, and the denomination has sold the facility to a Council Bluffs couple who plan to…
Old bridge is framed
The 79-year-old remains of the Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge, blasted into the water last Saturday, were being cut up for scrap Wednesday by workmen for Allied Structured Steel of Hammond, Ind. The 100,000 tons of steel will be sliced into smaller sections for…
Winding up his work
Mark Loizeau with his father, John, set and detonated dynamite charges that dropped the last span of the Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge Saturday. He was pleased with the demolition which went off with a loud boom and few hitches. -- Nonpareil photos
Bridge demolition
Some trusses of the old Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge between Council Bluffs and Omaha on the Missouri Rive were cut loose Friday and lowered to barges moored below. On the other side of the bridge a truss was lowered by the crane mounted on one of the barges.…
Setting the sand
About 8,500 of sand was packed around the six dynamite charges on the bridge as a precaution against destructive concussion. Workmen were hoisted to the top of the west end of the span to complete the packing shortly before the detonation.
It's just about gone
Truman Furgeson, superintendent for Allied Structural Steel Co., Hammond, Ind. watches as crews continue whittling away at the bones of the Ak-Sar_Ben Bridge on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River. Bridge portions in the water were fished out…
Before reopening
Before reopening . . . of Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge, Mayor Joseph Katelman and Manager Pete Pakey view barrel barricades at Douglas Street approach to the old span. At left, autos climb the Interstate-480 Bridge ramp. -- Nonpareil Photo.
Scrap span plan junked, coup de grace delayed
Superstructure . . . of the Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge has gained a short reprieve from destruction due to weak members. -- Nonpareil Photo.
Birds lose nesting places as . . . Ak span fades away
Roller nest . . . inspected by Robert Hoenig allowed old Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge to exercise its joints once in awhile. -- Nonpareil Photo.
Flu halts Ak Bridge demolition
The steel skeleton . . . of the late Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge backs up floating ice in the Missouri River as it lies in state on the Nebraska bank. --Nonpareil Photo.
Steel patternwork
Steel patternwork . . .in the main span of Ak-Sar-Ben Bridge will be partially dismantled and partially floated away late this summer. Robert Hoenig, job superintendent for Industrial Construction Division of Allied Structured Steel Co., surveys the…