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Plant Is A Family Operation - Furniture Is Big In Tiny Knox
Placing Springs . . . into a chair frame are Donald Johnson , Loren From Sr. and Loren From Jr., at their furniture factory in Knox. From Jr. and Johnson began the manufacturing and reupholstering plant about a year ago and are already planning an…
Plant And Manager Of Grape Growers - Grape "Co-op" One Of Oldest
Plant and offices of the Council Bluffs Grape Growers' Association, one of the nation's oldest co-operatives.
Plans For Bertrand Museum Revived, Now On Even Keel
Examining Sleigh Bells...recovered from the cargo of the sunken steamboat Bertrand are Jim Salyer of the Federal Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Sen. John Culver, D-Iowa. They and other interested parties met Friday in DeSoto Bend to plan the…
Plans For $350,000 Plant Okayed By First Christian - Groundbreaking In April
Architect's Drawing . . . of new educational unit and present First Christian Church at Scott and Mynster Streets.
Plan Dredging Of Big Lake; Now A Slough
Just A Puddle...with a lot of weeds is the view of Big Lake north of Council Bluffs. It used to be a favorite fishing spot for Bluffs' residents.
Plan Conversion Of Chieftain Into Retirement Home
Hotel Chieftain . . . would be purchased by a non-profit local corporation and renovated to provide 70 apartments for the low-income elderly.
Plan 25-room Grade School at the Second Avenue Site
The Proposed Second Avenue School...would face Third avenue on the present Second Avenue school site. The 25-room brick structure would connect with the present cottage, shown at right, which would be remodeled and used as a primary unit. The…
Plan 25-room Grade School at the Second Avenue Site
The First Floor Plan...calls for 12 classrooms. In addition to the manual training, domestic science and lunch rooms in the east wing. This wing would be constructed in a semi-basement fashion to provide for a boiler room and ease construction…
Plan 25-Room Grade School at the Second Avenue Site
The Second Floor Plan...calls for 12 classrooms and a large library. The combination gymnasium-auditorium at the east end would be a half=story below the second floor of the rest of the building because of the semi-basement rooms below it.
Pit bull's owner glad dog is home from pound
Cindy and Amanda Biggs with pit bull, Shooter
Pint-Size Park
Newly planted trees, shrubs and flower beds decorate the city's newest and smallest park. It occupies the east edge of the Viaduct parking lot at Eighth and Broadway. The camera points toward the Eighth and Broadway intersection.
Pinochle Players Have Own 'Home" At Elliott
This "Pinochle Palace" . . . in Elliott may well be the only building of its kind. Built by public subscription expressly for the use of the pinochle players, it is maintained by donations.
Piledrivers at Lake Manawa
Photograph of men installing dock at Lake Manawa.
Pierce Street School
Photograph of the exterior of Pierce School.
Pierce Scool [sic]
Pierce Scool [sic]...long a Council Bluffs landmark, is schedule for demolition sometime in the near future. The 70-year old structure may make way for a modern steel cottage-type school building.
Picket IC Railroad
Henry Watkins, 3437 Eighth Ave., a switchman, and K.J. Buhman, 310 Park Ave., engineer, Friday stand picket duty at Thirteenth Street and Avenue G. About 26 members of United Transportation Union Local 520 have joined some 4,000 workers in 14 states…
Physics Students Learnin [sic] By Doing
St. Albert Physics Students...construct a geodesic dome which will be used like a dome in a planetarium. Their first attempt, to which they used only metal fasteners, collapsed half-way through construction. The second time around hope string will…
Photograph of William Ward
Portrait of William Ward, Early Citizens of Council Bluffs.
Photograph of William Knox
Photograph of William Knox, mayor of Council Bluffs in in 1955.
Photograph of William H. M. Pusey
Portrait of William H. M. Pusey, Early Citizens of Council Bluffs.