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Category Archives: Iowa Miscellaneous
Oct
28
Rotisserie corn
July 5, 2013: This ear of corn on the Coon Rapids welcome sign on Iowa Highway 141 slowly rotates. Coon Rapids is best known for being the site of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to Iowa in 1959. Farmer and … Continue reading
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Oct
18
A slightly new style on my end pages
(Shorter text: UPDATES! Finally!) Photos from July 2012 have been added to IA 3, 9 West, 10, 12, and 148. One of the issues with updating the pages for individual routes is that I have listed all the dates at … Continue reading
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Oct
13
‘A full Christmas display was up by September 22’
At the Moline Kmart. (Quad-City Business Journal) I wish boycotting retailers for doing things like this would work. But if everyone does it, there’s nowhere else to go. UPDATE: Macy’s, which doesn’t have any stores in Iowa, is opening at 8 … Continue reading
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Oct
08
945 (probably for sure this time)
Millville, the ninth-smallest town in Iowa in 2010, has lost a third of its population of 30 since the census. It’s going to disincorporate, following Mount Sterling, formerly the 14th-smallest town in Iowa. Searsboro tried but the state wouldn’t allow … Continue reading
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Sep
24
Watch your gas pumps
A change to sub-octane shipments means Iowa gas stations will no longer be selling 89 octane fuel with ethanol. Instead, the three usual choices will be 87 without ethanol, 87 with ethanol, and 91 (premium). KWWL
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Sep
20
Last Kmart in Cedar Rapids to close
Story from KCRG.
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Sep
17
Run that by me again
July 12, 2013: One of the buildings at the Harrison County Historical Village and Welcome Center northeast of Missouri Valley.
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Sep
16
Desperation
Sponsored rest areas? Is the state really that hard up for transportation money? And then only charging $2,500 a year?
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Sep
15
“Musical Memories” off WMT
I only caught the end on Sept. 1, but it sounded like the show was moving off WMT-AM 600 to KMJM-AM 1360 the following week. The last song was “May the Good Lord Bless and Keep You”, written by Iowa’s … Continue reading
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Sep
13
Happy 100th birthday, Lincoln Highway route!
July 5, 2013: Three Bridges Park on the east side of Grand Junction The name was announced in July, but the path from coast to coast wasn’t made official until Sept. 13, 1913. The New York Times article about the … Continue reading
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