Articles Tagged: Time Machine

After six weeks in steerage and a bout of measles, Carl Sjorstrand arrived in the United States from Sweden in …

A New Year’s Day item in the 1926 Gazette announced the formation of the ‘newest denomination of Cedar Rapids churches,” …

At the turn of the 20th century, small, independent bakeries dotted Cedar Rapids. One stood on what is now the …

Scientists from Iowa State College in Ames appeared before the Cedar Rapids City Council in June 1955 with a dire …

Famed illustrator Norman Rockwell visited Cedar Rapids in June 1944, looking for inspiration on how he could portray Americans voting. …

Iowa City industrialist Chalmer D. Close built a showplace home on the corner of Gilbert and Bowery streets in 1874. …

Six veterans from Iowa’s Company D, 1st Iowa Infantry, were still alive and able to attend the 50th anniversary of …

On the eve of city elections, let’s look back at how Cedar Rapids has been governed in the past century-and-a-half. …

‘Hundreds of Cedar Rapids Elks Club members were left to forage for their lunch and noontime nap in new pastures …

What was once an open field – out beyond Cedar Rapids’ first drive-in theater on the outskirts of southwest Cedar …

Edna Dieman and Julia Bennett were an institution in Cedar Rapids, where they taught dance to thousands of students for …

With white supremacist rallies in the news and the recent picture of five teens in Creston wearing white hoods in …

George A. Ohler manufactured furniture – and caskets – at a factory at Washington and Benton streets on the east …

The Oneota Indians were the ancestors of the Ioway, Oto, Winnebago and Missouri tribes in Iowa. Little is known of …

In 1890, a fast-growing Indiana company, Flint & Walling, opened a distribution center for its popular Star Wind Mills in …