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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: Come Back Cafe
Description: Come Back Cafe in Grinnell, Iowa. It was located on Commercial Street in what is currently (2014) the parking lot to the south of Grinnell State Bank. The window advertises "Regular Dinner" for 25 cents and "Hot Cakes" for 15 cents. Coca-Cola sign under window.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:6194

Title: Condominium Construction on Spring Street
Description: Photograph identified as "Beginning of the condominium on north Spring St" which is just south of 16th Avenue in Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1981
PID: grinnell:3381

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: Customer at the Hartwick State Bank
Description: Taken in 1952 at the time of the 25th anniversary of the Hartwick State Bank, Vertner Gabriel is the customer and Ken Benda and Lucille Shellenbarger are behind the counter.
Date Created: 1952
PID: grinnell:20628

Title: Customers at the Cash Registers in McNally's
Description: View of customers in line at the cash registers in McNally's Foods, probably in the 1950s. The cash registers have signs which read, "Watch these figures for change due you! Your change figured automatically!" Cigarette displays are prominent in the checkout lanes.
Date Created: 1955
PID: grinnell:11919

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: Dorothy Tarleton outside Ben's Tire Shop
Description: Dorothy Tarleton sits inside of a Sieberling Cord tire outside of her father's tire shop, Ben's Tire Shop, in Grinnell, Iowa, in 1923 or 1924. Dorothy later married Philip Palmer.
Date Created: 1923
PID: grinnell:12033

Title: Ed and Jim McNally
Description: Ed and Jim McNally pictured inside their grocery store in Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:11914