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Title: Colonial Theater
Description: The Colonial Theater in Grinnell, Iowa, with its windows boarded up.
Date Created: 1965
PID: grinnell:11906

Title: Counter Checks from Poweshiek County Banks
Description: Counter checks from a variety of Poweshiek County (Iowa) banks. Counter checks were kept at the cash register of a business. Customers could write in their bank account number and use the checks as they would a personal check. These checks have MICR (Magnetic Ink Character Recognition) codes on them which the Federal Reserve began requiring in 1967.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:12824

Title: Dinner Celebrating 35th Anniversary of Hartwick State Bank
Description: At the time of the 35th anniversary of the Hartwick State Bank (Hartwick, Iowa) there was a dinner for customers held in the basement of the Hartwick Congregational Church.
Date Created: 1962
PID: grinnell:20631

Title: Dorothy Lannom Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Born in Cedar Rapids on November 3, 1912, Dorothy Williams came to Grinnell in 1934 as a graduate of Coe College. She taught home economics until her marriage in 1936 to G. Sharp Lannom III. She was interested in politics, and went to the Far East with the Iowa Development Commission and Iowa Governor Harold Hughes. Three of her four sons carried on the family manufacturing business.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23308

Title: Edwards Family
Description: Photograph of Howard, Hazel and Marie Edwards posing in front of their grocery store, the Edwards Grocery Co., which was located at 809 Fourth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Edwards Grocery offered home delivery of groceries and allowed charge accounts for your groceries. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-6, People.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:13016

Title: Fourth Street -- Grinnell, Iowa
Description: Color postcard view of Fourth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, looking east. Postcard by Es-N-Len Photos, Aurora, Illinois. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-5, Views of Grinnell.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:12336

Title: Frosty Mitchell Interviews Hartwick Banker
Description: Frosty Mitchell of KGRN radio station, Grinnell, Iowa, interviews Russell Gabriel upon the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the Hartwick State Bank in 1962. Ken Benda, bank president, looks on.
Date Created: 1962
PID: grinnell:20637

Title: Gene Breiting Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: A lifelong resident of Grinnell, Gene was born July 23, 1913. He graduated from Grinnell High School, and was drafted into service during World War II in 1943. He worked at various jobs in Grinnell, and in Amana for eleven years. He and his wife, Doris, had a son and two daughters.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23301

Title: General Telephone Building Construction
Description: Construction continues on the General Telephone company building at 11 11th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1967.
Date Created: 1967
PID: grinnell:6396

Title: Grinnell A&W in 1968
Description: The Grinnell A&W located at 229 6th Avenue West in 1968 after it was remodeled and added telephone ordering to replace car hops.
Date Created: 1968
PID: grinnell:27174