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In , after gaining the title back from one such developer, the city facilitated the creation of a "human services campus" in the Rath Brownfields Redevelopment Area by donating land and vacating a street, allowing the Northeast Iowa Food Bank, Operation Threshold and the Women's Center for Change to co-locate there.

Judd Tunis bought the land and built a half-mile dirt track for horse racing in In , he and Ira "Speed" Chumley, who owned a used car lot in Waterloo and raced so-called "midget cars," added a quarter-mile dirt "speed oval" for automobiles inside the horse track.

Because the Black Hawk Motorcycle Club agreed to build the grandstands, Tunis agreed that the first two races on the track -- then called the Tunis Speed Bowl -- were motorcycles; one informal one in , and a sanctioned race in that drew over 3, spectators. In , the first official auto races of midget cars were run, according to a Tunis Speedway Facebook group. Full-size auto racing began in , when the Speed Bowl changed its name to Speedway. Tunis Speedway was in operation for over three decades.

In its heyday, it routinely attracted 3, to 5, spectators, according to a Courier article profiling a Tunis Speedway reunion. A sign from that era advertised "stock car races every Sunday night. In , Tunis -- by then in his 80s -- was "tired" of running the track and sinking money into it, according to Claus Stricker, the last full-time manager of the Speedway. The weekly track events ceased, and only special promotional events were held.

The last race was in , promoted by Keith Knaack. This week, Flashback Friday features a scene, taken during the early years of the Waterloo Boat Club and River Improvement Association, showing a few of the boats which made use of the club's facilities along the Cedar River.

This week, Flashback Friday features this photo from the "Waterloo: A Pictorial History" book, taken sometime between and The caption from the book reads as follows: "As Waterloo became more prosperous, its citizens took on trappings that reflected the new wealth. People kept fine carriages and horses and even little girls were transported in style such as this graceful landau. If you have more information about who is pictured in this photograph or where it was taken, please share with us at newsroom wcfcourier.

This week, Flashback Friday features an aerial photo of Commercial Street to the left and West Fifth Street in downtown Waterloo, taken in the early s. The photo was likely taken from the vantage point of the Russell-Lamson Hotel. This block was one of Waterloo's earliest bustling commercial districts on the "west side," or south of the Cedar River. In , when Waterloo was incorporated, city offices were located in a law office on Commercial Street. By , the highest concentration of businesses was along that street, in the two-and-a-half blocks between Bridge now Park Avenue and Fifth streets, according to the Waterloo City Directory from that year.

Commercial Street was the original retail and market center on that side, while East Fourth Street was similarly built up at the same time on the north side of the river. Burnham's Opera House later Brown's Opera House was completed in at West Park and Commercial streets, later burning down in , and the local Masons first gathered in rented rooms at Commercial and West Fifth streets in the mids.

Businesses there around this time included the Irving House, later called the Irving Hotel, at the northeast corner of Bridge and Commercial streets, owned by C. Kingsley; Montgomery Ward, which moved in to the two-story building at Commercial St. By the late s, automobile usage in Black Hawk County had taken off, increasing to more than 16, registered vehicles, and auto-related businesses like gas stations, garages, auto parts stores and car dealerships proliferated.

While the tall Waterloo building at top left still stands as of , at that time there were also an assortment of cafes, taverns and small shops that had been landmarks. By the s, the city blamed the downtown's decline on insufficient parking and began to provide on-street metered parking and 10 off-street parking lots, though they were on the "periphery of the main downtown area" along Sixth and Third streets. Chicago consulting firm De Leuw, Cather and Co.

The buildings seen in this photo were demolished in and the parking ramp was open in May of This week, Flashback Friday features this photo of Herberger's Fabrics upon its grand opening. The store was located at University Ave. Herberger's Fabrics was an offshoot of the popular department store Herberger's, which began in in St. Cloud, Minnesota. The company opened seven separate fabric-only stores in Iowa, Missouri and Nebraska. The fabric stores didn't last, however: The stores were sold in This week, Flashback Friday features this undated photo of Hubert E.

LaPole's newsstand on the sidewalk of the south corner of Sycamore and East Fourth streets in downtown Waterloo. LaPole was 11 years old when his father died. His mother worked and LaPole -- the oldest of five children -- got a special permit in to sell the Waterloo Morning Tribune before school, the Waterloo Courier noon edition during his lunch hour and the Evening Courier after school -- plus "extras" at all hours.

By 15, he was in charge of as many as 50 other newsboys in the area. In addition to the newsstand, LaPole had various other occupations over the years, from cutting asparagus during the Great Depression, working at the Waterloo Liquor Store for eight years, and sandwich and ice cream stands.

He said in a article they were all "sidelines to the selling of newspapers. In , a routine renewal application met with opposition from nearby property owners, including Rhey N. Cowin, upset LaPole was allowed to operate on public property and impede pedestrian traffic. In June of , attorneys for Cowin took the city to court, saying it didn't have the right to grant a license to the sidewalk and ordered LaPole's newsstand removed.

Attorneys called the newsstand "unsightly" and said it interfered with pedestrian traffic, passengers exiting from vehicles and patrons trying to enter stores.

In March , a judge agreed , ordering LaPole to remove his newsstand and prohibiting the city from licensing the newsstand on public property again. LaPole continued to operate his stand and appealed to the Iowa Supreme Court. In February of , the court ordered LaPole to remove his stand from the sidewalk, saying the city had a duty to keep its sidewalks "free from nuisances. Though LaPole took the stand down, he kept selling papers on the corner through a mobile "news wagon," according to a November article profiling his business.

By the time of that article, LaPole -- then 67 at the time -- only operated from that corner on Sundays, but delivered Chicago and other newspapers to news dealers and downtown businesses during the week.

This week, Flashback Friday features a photo of the Spiral Thriller roller coaster, an early wooden roller coaster that was at the amusement park at Electric Park. During this era, it was common practice throughout the country for railroad companies to operate amusement parks to attract passengers to their trains and provide entertainment for employees' families. The railroad only owned the electricity and lighting facilities, and the Waterloo Amusement Company assumed responsibility for the park, charging 10 cents' admission, according to a July issue of the newsletter Electric Traction.

They also charged patrons "10 cents a dance or 50 cents for the evening" at the park's dance hall at that time, as well as 10 to 30 cents to see "a four-act vaudeville show with no pictures," which the company did not make money on but made up for it in concessions. Friday night attendance at the gate ran "as high as 2,, which is good for this sized park," and patrons could come and picnic on the grounds during the day for free.

Peterson, who ran the park and bought it outright in , built two roller coasters during that time. One was "a rather ordinary, traditional figure-8" coaster, typical of amusement parks of the era, according to a history of the park. The other was Spiral Thriller, described as "a roller coaster supreme" for those thrill seekers who found the figure-8 coaster "too tame.

Peterson also added other attractions: the Carry-Us-All, a merry-go-round with three horses abreast; the Barrel of Fun, a "very popular" and "one of the largest rides of its kind ever built," which attracted children too young to try the roller coasters; and the Dodge-Em Cars, similar to bumper cars where each car was attached to a trolley connected to an electrically charged wire ceiling. The entire park was electrically powered, which was unusual for the time -- hence the name Electric Park -- and visitors entered the main gate with "Electric Park" spelled out with hundreds of glittering lights.

The exception to the electricity was a water-powered Ferris Wheel, believed to have been the only one of its kind in the Midwest. The Spiral Thriller was said to have been constructed in But on Nov. During the subsequent Great Depression and the nation's changing tastes in amusements, the park languished. Early supporters included Courtland Fowler and Frances Grout.

But the idea was planted in the city even earlier, in , according to another account. The three rented rooms on Bridge Street, now known as West Fourth Street, and hosted Sunday Vespers, social activities and afternoon "thimble teas" at which they'd sew clothing for orphanages and low-income residents. When the building was sold in , another location was opened in with educational and gymnasium classes, though funds ran out in It later moved to the block of East Fourth Street.

Mortimer Cleveland designed the building shown in this photo, still in operation as of , which opened in In addition to gym, swimming pool, club rooms, cafeteria and dormitory, the Frances Grout Memorial Convalescent Room was housed on the third floor, where any girl recovering from an illness could receive care.

During the Depression, free activities were offered and women reached out by sewing and canning fruits and vegetables for relief agencies. When World War II began, women and girls worked swing shifts at local factories and spent evenings at the Y's supper meetings and classes.

Young women could receive training and skills through education and training programs at the YWCA from the s to the s. By the s and '70s, the organization was offering programming for displaced homemakers. Girl Reserves formed in the s and s, which included more than elementary school girls organized into 18 clubs led by 41 volunteers.

High school girls participated in Friendship Clubs, later known as Y-Teens. Built on acres donated by the Rath family, it was the first integrated camp facility in the area. In the fall of , German prisoners were housed at the camp. In the s, the Live Y'ers formed, with local high school students dancing to the calls of Jesse Cosby. In later years, the Y added child care and transportation during events, as well as programs benefitting the Spanish-speaking community.

This week, Flashback Friday features this photo of The Scissor Wizards, a hairstyling center that had recently opened on the Water Street side of the three-story structure at Water and East Fourth streets in downtown Waterloo. Rodney White, left, was assistant manager, and Dick Eaves was the manager, standing in front of the newly completed building in this photo.

According to a Courier article from September of , it was the first Country Kitchen in the area. The new building, four times the size of its former location, was one of the first in the Wendell Lockard Industrial Park. Harry Grant was at the time president of the firm, employing The company, which does "branding for a variety of healthcare and dental specialties," is still in operation at that location. It was named a Courier Employers of Choice. The company, begun in Waterloo in by Leonard Powers, is as of still in operation at the same location.

It "provides athletes with superior quality, custom uniforms," according to the Powers website. As of , the company employed around 95 people, and also worked with factories in the Dominican Republic and El Salvador.

Its company president at that time was Leonard Powers' great-great-great nephew, Grant Weidner. Powers makes custom team athletic uniforms under its own Powers brand and is the North American licensee for Under Armour custom team uniforms. In , during the coronavirus pandemic and resulting shortages of medical supplies, the company retooled its operations to produce medical-grade hospital gowns for health care providers at UnityPoint Health-Waterloo, according to a May Courier article.

The street running along the bottom of the picture is East Fourth Street. Gates Park Golf Course is at the top, behind the plant. The company was founded in by Andrew Chamberlain, a "prominent butter maker" who originally started it to service the butter-separation industry.

It first evolved into the Waterloo Rope Belt Company, "producing products associated with the large separators in creameries," according to a history done by The New Waterloo Project. In , the company pivoted again to become Chamberlain Machine Works, and when World War I began a year later, the machinery used for creameries was re-adapted to manufacture artillery shells for the U.

It continued to do so through World War II, manufacturing different types of ammunition. In , the date this photo was taken, Duchossois Industries Inc. But the facility, which sat on 23 acres, also manufactured metal washer wringers, aluminum awnings and refrigerator shelves along with ammunition, according to the Environmental Protection Agency.

It closed in and the site was vacant until the city of Waterloo purchased it in The city worked with the EPA and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources to conduct environmental studies of the soil, groundwater and asbestos abatement prior to and after the 24 building structures were removed in and Because of the extensive contamination of the site, the city has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in Brownfields Cleanup Grant funding to conduct the studies and cleanup of the property.

The EPA also issued Chamberlain Manufacturing a Unilateral Administrative Order in to determine "the extent of vapor intrusion of volatile organic compounds into homes and methods to reduce it," and Chamberlain is continuing to conduct soil and groundwater investigations, according to the EPA. As of , the city was still considering its options on what to do with the site and creating a land use plan. This week, Flashback Friday features Upper Iowa University defeating Wartburg College, its "traditional northeast Iowa rival" at the time, in a football game circa The photo is from a collection of sports photos donated to The Courier by the family of Clyde A.

Artus, a former Courier sports photographer and writer. This week, Flashback Friday features this aerial photo of College Square Mall in Cedar Falls, still under construction at the time. For department stores there was Wards, at the top of this photo; Younkers, in the center; and Woolco at the bottom. This week, Flashback Friday features this photo of the Woolco Department Store that opened in , the second department store to open in what was then the new College Square Shopping Center in Cedar Falls.

The store opened with employees, and departments ranging from apparel to hardware, appliances and more, as well as the Woolco Red Grille. Woolco closed in , and the area's first Wal-Mart opened in that space in Walmart then moved to its current location on Viking Road in The showcase hotel was built in and operated by a succession of companies until it was sold in to Elders Inc.

It was converted to federally subsidized housing units for low-income and disabled residents, and the name was changed to Park Towers Apartments. At that time, the building retained 84 units of subsidized housing. The name was then changed to Hotel President. The photo shows a loaded grain truck hoisted by the massive ram hoist, capable of lifting , pounds and unloading it in minutes. A half-million dollars in new equipment was installed and it was expected that some 7 to 20 million bushels of corn, soybeans and oats would pass through the elevator that year.

The Minneapolis-based Pillsbury Co. Prior to that time driving between Waterloo and Cedar Rapids along two-lane Highways and 30 took up to two hours; the new stretch made the drive around 50 minutes. There was opposition to the project. A group of property owners between Center Point and Jesup, called the Farmland Preservation Association, fought the freeway for several years in the late s, before the Iowa Department of Transportation Commission and in the courts.

Several options were considered, including the route directly north through Independence; one more or less following existing through Vinton and La Porte City; and one following an old Waterloo-Cedar Rapids interurban railroad right of way that is the present-day location of the Cedar Valley Nature Trail.

But the Highway Commission stayed with the recommended route after numerous hearings an deliberations. A federal judge in upheld the Iowa DOT's decision on the highway location, saying the state had adequately studied alternatives and options for the road.

The opening of the interstate, and a massive metro highway system reconstruction conceived by former Waterloo Mayor Leo Rooff, opened the floodgates of economic activity in the Cedar Valley and made the area an attractive investment for companies in Cedar Rapids and beyond. The store closed in the late s since the site was part of the urban renewal project, and the U.

There was also a Hurwich Furniture Co. Fourth St. The retail store, owned by F. The store began in Cedar Rapids in and was "the largest fur manufacturing institution in Iowa," with fur originating from Germany, Russia, Belgium, France, England and what was then Czechoslovakia, according to Courier archives.

The company had a cold storage capacity of "more than 10, coats," one of the largest in the Midwest at the time. Mitvalsky's opened its Waterloo branch on July 22, , with James Kirchner and Francis Louda as managers, and the store noted in a July 24 ad they "sold three times more merchandise than we expected" during their grand opening celebration.

By February of , Petra's sold off its stock of remaining mink coats -- by then selling for thousands of dollars each -- citing it was "due to Department of Transportation taking F. Mitvalsky and Company's building and factory out of business. There is no such address in Waterloo at the moment. The store would have been located near what is now the Waterloo Building and Stifel Nicolaus. Fifth St. The facility, which featured "banking by television," opened in and included a walk-in customer lobby as well as two television remote control units and one conventional drive-up window.

This week, Flashback Friday features this photo of the Hanna Monument, a bronze tablet set in stone. The monument pays homage to the location of the first home built by Europeans who stayed permanently in Black Hawk County, George W. She married George in and died of a stroke Nov.

George was born in and died in The couple had seven children and are are buried at Elmwood Cemetery. The couple founded Waterloo township on June 19, , in what is now the west Waterloo commercial district.

The Hanna home was an foot by foot log cabin , built "on the edge of a blooming prairie," and the couple along with Mary's brother John Melrose farmed the area. They increased the land they claimed as their own until they owned "a considerable portion of the land on the west bank" of the Cedar River.

They then "freely gave" their land, in small tracts, to developers that would later construct the Stewart Blacksmith Shop on Fourth Street as well as the first schoolhouse near the corner of Jefferson Street and West Park Avenue. The Hannas moved into town in , purchasing a brick structure they made into a store, and were residents there for seven or eight years before moving back to the original farm. Mary Hanna befriended Indigenous members of the Pottawatamie, Meskwaki and Winnebago tribes that lived nearby, learned a bit of their languages and taught some of the women English, according to an early history of the Hannas.

Some of the tribes made sugar in "the immense sugar tree groves, which wooded the hills along the river to the northwest of Waterloo," which they traded with the white residents for flour, according to that history.

The Hanna home was "home, church and courthouse to suit the needs of the time," according to that history. George Hanna was the county's first justice of the peace, and religious services were held "every Sunday. The memorial site was offered by the couple's daughters, Mary Tiller and Edith Knupp, to the Early Settlers Association of Black Hawk County on the condition the grounds would be "perpetually cared for," according to a Sept.

The Early Settlers held annual reunions at the site until the middle of the 20th century, when descendant Emily Hanna George built an estate on the site known as "Texowa. Platt's Nursery later bought much of the Texowa estate for their business and kept the monument, though it was later moved when University Avenue expanded and, with no one officially in charge of it, fell into disrepair.

The towering, wooden statue, with arms reaching upward in a gesture of anguish, was carved with the intent of allowing it to decompose as a tribute to the quirkiness of Mother Nature. It was taken down after 20 years and replaced in by "Tragedy to Triumph," a foot stainless sculpture that still stands on the Lutheran Student Center's property as of Shakey's Pizza locations in both Cedar Falls and Waterloo, the latter of which opened in , were owned and operated by Arland "Axe" Haugen , who also served for 20 years on the Cedar Falls City Council.

Haugen, who was once named a Shakey's franchise dealer of the year, closed both locations in He died at the age of 90 in Shakey's Pizza was one of the first pizza chains in the United States, founded in At the height of its popularity in the s, it had locations. That address -- at the intersection of University Avenue -- is no longer being used as of It featured more than 20 stores at the opening, with expectations of an eventual total of around 60 stores on the acre site at the intersections of Highways and It was once a part of Orange Township farmland and former site of a country school.

The building was erected in by Caward Investment Co. Penney in Penney's original Waterloo location was at 95 E. The building was demolished in the early s to make room for the Ramada Hotel. Bud Rasmussen was the owner and operator of the establishment. The store had 15, square feet and 25 different lines of furniture and appliances. The airport was dedicated on June 10, In , Ben Hieber and L.

Drug at Main Street. They specialized in drugs, paint, wallpaper, hammocks and, of course, had a very fine soda fountain. Jeff Dunham's new car on the far right. It was the first motorized piece of fire equipment in Iowa. Fire companies had existed in Waterloo as early as , but all were private until the first public fire stations, staffed with all volunteer firefighters, were built on the city's east and west sides.

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