Articles Tagged: Time Machine

The Gazette’s page 1 headline on Jan. 2, 1917, said: ‘New Year Gift to Cedar Rapids.” The ‘gift” was that …

Getting across the Fourth Street tracks in Cedar Rapids is easier now than it was when there were a half …

It was in 1904 that the St. Wenceslaus Catholic parish, established in 1874 in Cedar Rapids, decided to build a …

Two University of Iowa professors, both of them medical doctors, mounted an effort in 1957 to learn more about the …

The wading pool at Shawnee Park in northwest Cedar Rapids was filled for the last time in 2000. Its spray …

Cornell College was founded in 1853. In 1882, a large stone chapel was opened on the Mount Vernon campus, with …

Duane J. Arnold, who would become the namesake for a nuclear power plant in Eastern Iowa, grew up liking to …

Kate Daum – who has a University of Iowa residence hall named in her honor – was 9 years old …

Deer in Iowa were hunted almost to extinction in the 1800s, and Iowa lawmakers in 1898 banned the hunting of …

The Los Angeles school district owns more than 50,000 works of art. Philadelphia’s school district has 1,200. And the Cedar …

Midget racing started in California in the 1930s, but it was most popular in the decades after World War II. …

We weren’t supposed to be there. The old Fourth Avenue Bridge walkway was marked with warnings that it was unsafe. …

Josef Prusek had lived in Cedar Rapids since 1890. He built a two-story family home at 1601 N St. SW, …

Holiday parades marched along Cedar Rapids streets as early as 1916, when a Mother Goose parade sponsored by Killian’s department …

Can anyone prove that the famous Rudolph with the bright, shiny red nose has ever been in Iowa? Probably not. …