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Title: Happiest Brides Float
Description: A parade float advertising a jewelry and gift shop in Grinnell. The float has a man in a white suit and a woman in a white wedding dress in Grinnell, Iowa. Behind the float you can see a section of the north side of Fourth Avenue between Main and Broad Streets. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Main Street Slides, p.25, slide 2.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:21515

Title: Hy-Vee
Description: Photograph of the Hy-Vee grocery store which was located at 120 Sixth Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:12926

Title: James Funeral Home, Grinnell Centennial Parade
Description: Staff of James Funeral Home drive an antique automobile in the Grinnell Centennial parade. James Funeral Home was located at 1702 Sixth Avenue. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous Photographs. Collection #17, Box #4.
Date Created: 1954
PID: grinnell:28735

Title: Larsen's Motel
Description: Color postcard of Larsen's Motel, which was one mile east of Grinnell, Iowa, on Highway 6, in the 1950s and 1960s. Mr. and Mrs. Don Larsen, owners and operators. Photo, art work and produced by Douglas R. Smith, Washington, D.C. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:11642

Title: Main Street between Commercial and 4th
Description: View of the west side of Main Street between Commercial Street and 4th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa, in the mid-1950s. Duffy's Tavern (829 Main St.), established 1957, is on the right; P & M Cafe (825 Main St., run by Peg and Merl Masteller) is at the left. 827A Main Street is Rawlings TB Barber Shop. 827B Main Street was F&R Used Furniture in 1959 and C.H. King Used Furniture in 1962. Grinnell Feed and Grain is in the background at the left. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6475

Title: Men's Dormitory, Grinnell, Iowa -- 23
Description: Postcard view of the men's dormitories at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa. The view looks across Ward Field to the northwest with the Gates-Rawson tower visible on the left and Cowles Hall visible to the right. Postcard published by E.C. Kropp Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-3, Grinnell College.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:11800

Title: Milk the Modern Way Float
Description: A parade float advertising "Milk the Modern Way" with a life size replica of a cow and two little girls surrounded by milk cartons in Grinnell, Iowa. Behind the float you can see a section of the north side of Fourth Avenue between Main and Broad Streets. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Main Street Slides, p.25, slide 3.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:21516

Title: OK Tire Shop, Grinnell Centennial Parade
Description: Staff of the OK Tire Shop drive an antique automobile in the Grinnell Centennial parade. Members of the band line the street behind it. 1303 Park Street is visible in the background. OK Tire was located at 804 Commercial Street. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous Photographs. Collection #17, Box #4.
Date Created: 1954
PID: grinnell:28729

Title: Outside the Strand
Description: Young man and young woman standing outside the Strand Theater in Grinnell, Iowa. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Miscellaneous photographs. Collection #17-2, Grinnell Buildings.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:6489

Title: Parade Float Selling Home Plans
Description: A parade float in Grinnell, Iowa, with two men sitting at a table. There are signs hanging on the table advertising lots for sale and part of the banner at the bottom of the float reads, "Home Plans". Behind the float you can see a section of the north side of Fourth Avenue between Main and Broad Streets. Drake Community Library (Grinnell, Iowa) Archives. Main Street Slides, p.25, slide 4.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:21517