When the Armstrong’s department store moved into its new 149,000-square-foot building at Third Street and Third Avenue SE in 1959, it was the largest building in downtown Cedar Rapids. The $2.5 ...
And now a page from our "Sunday Morning" Almanac: August 9th, 1859, 156 years ago today ... the day the patent for a prototype escalator, called "revolving stairs ...
Guinness World Records claims that the world’s first working escalator was made by Jesse W. Reno of Kansas Nathan Ames of Massachusetts was the first to patent the first escalator-like machine in 1859 ...
A recent visit to Boscov’s with my wife brought back memories of walking through the building when it was Fowler, Dick & Walker’s Department Store. Most of us know it as Fowler’s, and it originally ...
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