Diane Fannon-Langton

Two couples owned and operated the famed supper club for more than 40 years. It was destroyed in a fire on Dec. 4, 2000.

Time Machine: University of Iowa football player, wrestler, attended the first practice drill for the Hawkeyes every fall for 65 years, starting in 1912.

While bank robberies were common in smaller towns in the early 1900s, it wasn’t until 1933 that a bank was robbed in Cedar Rapids.

Family jewelers have kept 1918 clock running for more than a century.

Time Machine: In 1953, Gazette Sports Editor Gus Schraeder and University of Iowa head football coach Forest Evashevski switched roles for the Black & Gold game in “Operation Big Switch.”

Iowa football star was first Black lineman in the NFL before becoming a lawyer and judge in Chicago.

Time Machine: After Herbert Richard Wright became a lawyer, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed him as U.S. consul to Honduras and later to Venezuela.

TIME MACHINE: Refused use of a hall by the DAR in 1939, Anderson sang from steps of Lincoln Memorial before 75,000 people.

Cedar Rapids company specialized in printing rare, limited edition books after 1905 founding.

Edgar Bergen dropped into a meeting in Cedar Rapids in1963 and used his hand to demonstrate his ventriloquism talent. Donations spiked 23 percent after his talk.

Ada Van Vechten pushed to open a free, public library in Cedar Rapids 125 years ago.

TIME MACHINE: Members gathered in Eighth Avenue building for more than a century

Figures still on display in Algona every December

State went slightly bonkers in 1956 after bowl invite

Charles Hollenbeck sold the land -- a popular picnicking spot -- to two men, who created a modern “park-like” cemetery, Cedar Memorial Cemetery.