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Broad Street Parking to End

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Photograph of cars parked in the middle of Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1961. A news clipping attached to the photo reads, "Broad Street parking to end. Grinnell City Council voted Monday night to end center street parking on a 2-block stretch of Broad Street between Fifth Avenue and Commercial. The center of the 2-block stretch of Broad Street has been used for parking for about 12 years." A handwritten date of April 14, 1961, has been added. George and Rolf Hardware Store and the New Home Bakery are visible in the background.
Title Broad Street Parking to End
Index Date 1961
Publisher Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Provenance William E. McNally
Topic Central business districts
Topic Automobile parking
Geographic Grinnell (Iowa)
Keyword 1960s
Keyword Grinnell
Keyword Business
Keyword Transportation
Related Item Poweshiek History Preservation Project
Related Item Digital Grinnell
Genre photograph
Extent 1 sheet
Media Type image/tiff
Digital Origin digitized other analog
Language English
Identifier (local) grinnell:11904
Identifier (hdl) http://hdl.handle.net/11084/11904
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