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Photos: The Gazette building through the years
Sep. 1, 2020 4:32 pm
After 95 years, The Gazette has moved from its building at corner of Third Avenue and Fifth Street to a new location a couple of blocks away. The new spot at 116 Third St. SE is The Gazette's fifth downtown Cedar Rapids location. Here's a look at photos of The Gazette building through the years.
Chris Schamberger, make-up man, works on a page. Type in foreground sits in galleys waiting to be put into a page in this 1971 photo. March 8, 1971.
Composing room printer Russ Wolfe sets a 1971 headline on a manually operated line-casting machine. (Gazette archives)
Photo of the Associated Press wire machines on The Gazette second floor. (1960s)
Leona Shramek (center, near pillar) works in The Gazette's mailroom in 1980 at the newspaper's downtown Cedar Rapids location at Third Avenue and Fifth Street SE.
The Gazette's sign in downtown Cedar Rapids reads out the city's record temperature Monday afternoon. The previous high was 98 degrees. June 20, 1988.
GFOC Gazette Company History (Gazette press, published July 1960)
Loading rolls of newsprint on The Gazette's letterpress in 1960 were Jerry Fleming (front) and Marty Kucera.
Gazette employee Bill Stodola puts a printing plate on a Goss letterpress.
The Gazette Goss Metro Press was dismantled and publled through the alley wall of The Gazette.
The Gazette Goss Metro Press was dismantled and publled through the alley wall of The Gazette.
Time Machine author Diane Fannon-Langton stands in front of The Gazette building at 500 Third Ave. SE with her daughter Tricia as they wait for a school bus in 1981. Photo was taken by Gazette photographer Tom Merryman as he was heading into the building.
The new modern Gazette building in 1925, home of Cedar Rapids largest newspaper. Gazette History Book
Gazette editorial writer Mike Deupree (left) talks with Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) in front of a computer in Deupree's office. January 9, 1987.
Shown is The Gazette's new electrical rotating sign atop its roof at 500 Third Ave. SE. An 'Eye of the Tiger' First Place Award For Outdoor Advertising was given (5-20) for the sign which sported the centennial logo designed by Newsroom Art Director Bill Dunn. Photo June 1, 1983.
Composing room printer John McQuillen perforates a tape which will be fed into a computer. It will turn out a second tape which will produce lines of type. This one is doing a news story. The device can also be used to assemble ads. February 14, 1971.
The Gazette is checked after coming off the press (1960s).
Gazette newsroom, 1960s. First row: Marge Keyser, left, and Ellen Howrey, both in social department. Third row: Dan Hinson, reporter, who went to the Wall Street Journal Fourth row: Russ Wiley, left, and Art Heusinkveld, both reporters. Fifth row: Nadine Subotnik, entertainment editor Back left corner: Naomi Doebel, building editor Center at back: Pete Hoyt, managing editor. Back right corner, from left: believed to be Carl Kane; John Reynolds, Sunday editor and columnist; Laurie Van Dyke, writer-photographer. Left to right at right of picture: John Meyer, sports; Earl Rieke, copy desk; Jack Illian, city editor; Phyllis Fleming, state desk.
A pressroom worker reads an edition of The Gazette as papers roll off the press at Third Avenue and Fifth Street SE.
Don Giltrap, composing room printer, works on an advertisement in Ad Alley. November, 1971.
Bundles of papers going down a conveyer to bundle-typing machine and beyond that to the loading dock. November 18, 1969.
Employees of Nesper Sign Co. hoist a new panel to The Gazette's roof Tuesday. The updated look for the company's rotating sign was prepared with the assistance of Colle & McVoy Advertising, Waterloo. Visually, the sign bears similarity to The Gazette's ad campaign for classified, but in this case the front page is showcased. The phrase 'worth looking into' was chosen because it is a quick, effective reminder - both to readers and nonreaders - that the newspaper offers a valuable product. December 9, 1986.
Bob Reu makes up pages in the composing room at The Gazette.
Rolling completed, mat shows the impression it picked up from the page (1971).
The Gazette's new centennial sign sits on a flat-bed trailer in front of the building on Fifth Street SE in preparation for its installation on the roof. The sign was put in place Wednesday by Nesper Sign Advertising Inc. of Cedar Rapids. Greene Square is seen in the background at right. January 5, 1983.
Employees of Nesper Sign Company Co. place a new panel to The Gazette's roof sign Tuesday. The updated look for the company's rotating sign was prepared with the assistance of Colle and McVoy Advertising, Waterloo. Visually, the sign bears similarity to The Gazette's ad campaign for classified, but in this case the front page is showcased. The phrase 'worth looking into' was chosen because it is a quick, effective reminder - both to readers and nonreaders - that the newspaper offers a valuable product. December 9, 1986.
Hans Goodrich (Grueterich before he immigrated from Germany) looks over newspapers in The Gazette newsroom with reporter Ray C. Blackmer and an unidentified woman looking over his shoulders. Goodrich and Blackmer, who became friends in Cedar Rapids, later learned they fought on opposite sides of a battle in France during World War I. (Dave Rasdal/The Gazette)
