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Title: General Telephone Building on 5th Avenue
Description: View of the General Telephone company building in Grinnell, Iowa. Taken looking north and west from the corner of 5th Avenue and Broad Street in 1965. Eyestone Insurance company and an ice cream store are on the corner.
Date Created: 1965
PID: grinnell:6391

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

Title: Grinnell Federal Savings
Description: Grinnell Federal Savings and Loan building in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1965. It was located at 1025 Main Street. No longer standing. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Chamber of Commerce Slides, p.9, slide 7.
Date Created: 1965
PID: grinnell:19325

Title: Hartwick Bankers
Description: Hartwick State Bank founder, Ben Roudabush (center), poses with former Hartwick bankers, Lucille and W.N. Shellenbarger. The photo was taken at the time of the bank's 35th anniversary celebration in 1962.
Date Created: 1962
PID: grinnell:20635

Title: Hartwick State Bank Board of Directors
Description: The Hartwick State Bank Board of Directors taken in 1962 during the bank's 35th anniversary celebration. From left to right: Ken Benda, Ben Roudabush, Clarence Possehl, Godfrey Veight, Wayne Ryan, and Howard Olson.
Date Created: 1962
PID: grinnell:20636

Title: Hartwick State Bank Customers 1962
Description: Customers line up at the Hartwick State Bank in Hartwick, Iowa, during the bank's 35th anniversary celebration in 1962. Behind the counter are: Howard Olson, Ken Benda and Ruth O'Halloran. The customers in line are: Chet Simpson, Sr.; Everette Williamson; Grace Ketterling; Adolph Chvala; Marge Rhinehart; and Mildred Bees.
Date Created: 1962
PID: grinnell:20633

Title: Isadore Berman Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Isadore Berman was born February 22, 1924. He graduated from Grinnell High School in 1941, served in WW II, earned a BA from Grinnell College in 1949 and, later, an MBA from Columbia University. He is continuing in the family scrap metal business. He and his wife, Ida, have a son and a daughter.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23300

Title: Jim George Interview, American Beliefs and Cultural Values
Description: Jim George was born and raised in Iowa receiving a degree in journalism from Coe College. He spent four years in the United States Air Force in World War II. Returning to Iowa after the war he was the editor of newspapers in Eldora, Grinnell, and Montezuma, and then worked for four years as sports information director at Grinnell College. He then took a position at Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company where he spent 25 years as public relations director. After retiring from GMRC he continued to work for them part time for another eight years. In 1985 he returned to Grinnell College and served as sports information director until 1999. He and his wife, Isabel, had three daughters. Interview conducted as part of American Beliefs and Cultural Values, an American Studies class taught by Hanna Griff at Grinnell College in 1993.
Date Created: 1993
PID: grinnell:26719

Title: Leo Flanagan Interview, Voices from the Past
Description: Leo was born in Sully, Iowa, on January 19, 1908. He farmed, worked in service stations for 21 years, and in automobile sales and management for 20 years. He and his wife, Blanche, had three children.
Date Created: 1992
PID: grinnell:23302

Title: Local Businessmen on Fire Engine
Description: Photograph of local businessmen in Grinnell, Iowa, taking a ride on the fire engine. The photo is taken in front of the Grinnell Herald Register building and the I.T.C. building on Fourth Avenue. The text of an attached news clipping reads: Amateur firemen take a ride. As part of National Fire Safety Week observance, businessmen were taken for rides on Grinnell's fire trucks on Thursday. In this "crew", left to right, are L.S. Sieberth, secretary-treasurer of the local firemen's association, Keith Gregory, Jim McNally and Chris McNally, in the seat, Herb Waltersdorf, John Queen, Francis Walling, M.F. Zimmerman, Bill Ritter, the Rev. Wm. Overhulser, Herb Greve, G.L. Duke, and Frank Lynch.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:11909