Articles Tagged: Time Machine

From 1950 to 1952, as the United States ramped up military spending for the Korean War and President Harry Truman …

When Army Col. George Frederick Ney Dailey was assigned to the University of Iowa’s Department of Military Science and Tactics …

In 1953, there were two places in the country where wooden bowling pins could be reconditioned and repaired. One was …

January is marked by post-holiday ennui, but January 1923 was livened up a bit in Cedar Rapids by the arrival …

James Lorenzo ‘Ren’ Bever Jr. was born in 1874 in the family home at Iowa Avenue and Madison Street in …

Carl Sandburg had already published two volumes of poetry — ‘Chicago Poems’ in 1916 and ‘Cornhuskers’ in 1918 — when …

Verna and Walter Davidson opened the Sewing Machine Exchange at 325 First St. SW in 1920. They offered new and …

‘GE College Bowl” was a popular TV game show that aired Sunday afternoons from 1958 to 1970 on CBS and …

While President Dwight Eisenhower was attending talks in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1955 with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and Soviet Communist …

Less than 800 automobiles were registered in Iowa in 1905. Ten years later, that number was more than 147,000. With …

William W. Walker arrived in Cedar Rapids in 1855 from New York City. He and his wife, Mary Hitchcock Walker, …

In 1917, a Valentine’s Day ball was scheduled on Feb. 14 as the last big social event before the Lenten …

Grace Episcopal Church, commonly called Grace Church, was organized in 1850. The church’s first vestry officers were William Greene, N.B. …

Henry Carter, a sawmill operator, was one of the earliest settlers in the northeast Iowa town of Hopkinton in Delaware …

Among The Gazette’s archives are hundreds of negatives from the 1940s-60s, some marked with a minimal amount of information, but …