Articles Tagged: Time Machine

Hotel Montrose owner hired artist to paint 7 scenes for coffeeshop in 1932

Plane was in city to have Collins Radio equipment installed

Iconic comedian and showman Bob Hope performed in Cedar Rapids three times during his long career, which spanned more than 70 years and covered much of the 20th century.

Davenport and Iowa CIty hired first women in Iowa in 1977, with Cedar Rapids following in 1986

Dutch families began popular Pella festival in 1935

Collins Aerospace sits on early airstrip in Cedar Rapids

Plant in Vinton once produced tons of the treat

Bell from I.C. First Presbyterian was hidden, then spirited away to Utah

He visited Burlington, Council Bluffs before becoming nation’s 16th president

Iowa’s largest five-and-dime store was in C.R. before closing after Christmas 1986.

Sir Henry ‘Harry’ Lauder, a former coal miner, appeared Dec. 27, 1922

‘Happy little ear of corn’ has been entertaining children in Cedar Rapids since 1952

Plant operated on Cedar River from 1917 to 1970s Cedar Rapids Electric Light and Power began offering electricity in Eastern …

‘Gazzy,’ born in 1941, was named for The Gazette

Order of Railway Conductors operated downtown for almost a century, from 1878 to 1968