CEDAR RAPIDS – A group of businessmen formed the West Side Civic Club in May 1959 as a way to …
Articles Tagged: Time Machine
History Sep. 28, 2014 1:00 am4045d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The United Nations’ 10th anniversary was cause for celebration in 1955. Cedar Rapids Mayor Milo Sedlacek appointed …
News Sep. 21, 2014 1:00 am4052d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — In the middle of May 1910, a train pulled into Cedar Rapids’s Union Station on Fourth Avenue …
News Sep. 14, 2014 1:00 am4059d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – The interurban circus grounds on Sixth Street West in Cedar Rapids were used on a weekly basis …
History Sep. 7, 2014 1:00 am4066d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS – ‘Just as little boys sometimes dream about becoming the next Pete Rose or O.J. Simpson, here in …
History Aug. 31, 2014 1:00 am4073d ago
CEDAR RAPIDS — It began with a joke. When asked what souvenir a friend could send to him from Florida, …
Living Aug. 24, 2014 1:00 am4080d ago
Was it haunted or not? The house, whose address was ‘End of Skip Level Road,’ stood three miles west of …
History Jul. 20, 2014 12:58 pm4115d ago
Iowa Code 523I.102 – ‘Pioneer cemetery” means a cemetery where there were twelve or fewer burials in the preceding fifty …
History Jul. 6, 2014 1:00 am4129d ago
The United States’ diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union and China were in tatters, the Soviet Union had tested its …
History Jun. 29, 2014 8:25 am4136d ago
Even as the million-dollar Veterans Memorial Building was rising from the municipal island in the middle of the Cedar River, …
History Jun. 22, 2014 9:11 am4143d ago
Our deep red car was an unrecognizable gray. Clouds of dust rose each time we opened or closed a door. …
History Jun. 20, 2014 5:59 pm4145d ago
Curiosity led me to William H. Lightner. Along E Avenue NW, in the 1700 block, are two stone pillars mounted …
History Jan. 23, 2024 10:44 am641d ago
On Oct. 16, 1859, John Brown and his small band of abolitionists seized the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Va. …
News Jun. 2, 2014 11:52 am4163d ago
The Cedar Rapids School Board faced a problem finding enough classrooms for a growing student population in 1902. A committee …
History May. 25, 2014 8:53 am4171d ago
The weather was fair and the trip to make the first air delivery of The Gazette was set. Spread over …

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