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Jun
23
License Plate Countdown — ZMF
On a miscellaneous note, were there any KD’s through KX’s? It seems odd that I would never see one on any of my trips.
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Jun
22
Corn Carnival
We really love our corn! July 16, 2004.
It’s been a few years since it was moved up, but it still feels very wrong to have Corn Carnival in June. (Especially this year, being the fourth of five Fridays.) Tonight is the big parade in Gladbrook, and it’s an election year, so candidates and surrogates will be plentiful at all levels of government.
Tama County government has had some particularly patriotic names in office, including former auditor John Adams and former supervisor Patrick Henry.
With a name like that, how can you lose? Also July 16, 2004.
The only hangup seems to be that Gladbrook’s city website domain name has lapsed. The pages from Matchstick Marvels still work, but gladbrookiowa.com has been captured by a foreign domain squatter.
Posted in Iowa Miscellaneous, Tama County
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Jun
21
NBC Sports’ blogs need a copy editor
“A sneak peak at Maryland’s new basketball uniforms?”
Peak? Really? (Also note: Mismatched socks are a thing now, at least if you’re Maryland. It could be worse.)
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Jun
20
ISU, BCS loner
CBS Sports adds up the BCS finishes by conference from the past five years based on 2014 conference memberships and “Iowa State is the only [Big 12] member without a Top 25 BCS finish since 2007.” However, that status is due to Texas A&M storming off in a huff going to the SEC. Kansas may be back to doormat status, but at least they have 2007.
To add insult to injury, the auto-formatted link in that sentence on the original page is tagged for the Iowa Hawkeyes. (Oregon State’s link works.)
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Jun
19
Minor page updates
Photos taken in the past year have been added to IA 38, 186, 234, 273, and 359. The US 18 page now has the plaque that stands where the old suspension bridge crossed the Mississippi River. (Somehow I never added that earlier.)
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Jun
17
Gazette articles on railroads
Informative articles from the Cedar Rapids Gazette about the importance of the railroads in Iowa’s history and the network “representing arms of urban economic imperialism of Chicago”.
Iowa’s past, future converge with railroads
Union Station was hub of downtown Cedar Rapids
This is a timed post.
Posted in Iowa Miscellaneous
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Jun
17
License plate countdown — ZKQ
I saw that one right after a ZKN with a “for sale” in the windshield. (Then why did they get the plate?)
Posted in License Plates
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Jun
16
Chief Wapello is down
December 18, 2006
Thunderstorms in Wapello County knocked down the statue on the courthouse in Ottumwa. The rain came the same week that the county was declared to be in a moderate drought.
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Jun
16
Don Bosco gets its own football field
That reminds me, I still have a school district directory to update…
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