Carpenter builds basement recreation room in NE home
Naomi Doebel profiles Bill Jack Rodgers an Allis Chalmers industrial photographer who designed and built a $400 basement recreation room at 1115 Thirtieth Street NE featuring turquoise flamingo canopied bar knotty pine paneling sketchwood and a future darkroom He used celotex blocks for the ceiling and built a divider bench with turquoise rails to hide the water meter.
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Bill Jack Rodgers
Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company
Rodgers
Thirtieth Street
Summer Yard
Sketchwood
Cody
Deane K Smiths Buy New House on Skylark Lane
Mr and Mrs Deane K Smith purchased the new house at 3624 Skylark Lane NE from the Francis Friedl and Robert Waples Company. Midland Mortgage Company handled the sale. The Smiths had just returned from Ft Smith Arkansas where Mr Smith served in the army.
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Deane K. Smith
Skylark Lane
Francis Friedl
Robert Waples
Midland Mortgage Company
Smiths
Ft. Smith
Ark
Smith
John P. Mitchell
Thirtieth Street
Ronald A. Schuetz
Sioux City
Travis Real Estate Agency
Schuetz
Cedar Rapids
Picker X-ray Corporation
Urban Land Institute Elects Chas. E. Joern
Charles E. Joern of La Grange Park Illinois was chosen as the ninth president of the Urban Land Institute at the board of trustees meeting in Washington at the Mayflower hotel Other 1957 officers named include David D. Bohannon Van Holt Garrett Waverly Taylor and H Walter Graves Joern previously served as institute secretary and is noted as a developer of quality residential communities His Village Market shopping center in La Grange is cited as a top planned center
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Washington
Charles E. Joern
la Grange Park
Urban Land Institute
Mayflower Hotel
David D. Bohannon
San Mateo
Calif
van Holt Garrett
Denver
Waverly Taylor
Washington, D. C
H. Walter Graves
Philadelphia
Joern
Institute
Community Builders’ Council
la Grange
Atteys Sell House to Joe Graws Buy New One
Mr and Mrs Daniel Attey sold their house at 2112 Reynolds Avenue SW to Mr and Mrs Joe Graw of 815 G Avenue NW for possession next Thursday The Atteys will move into a new house on Blairs Ferry Road.
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Atteys
Joe Graws
Daniel Attey
Reynolds Avenue
Joe Graw
G Avenue
Blairs Ferry Road
C R Realtors To Hear Olberg On Financing
Forbes Olberg a trust officer at Merchants National Bank will speak at the Cedar Rapids Real Estate Board Monday luncheon meeting according to the notice.
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Hal Haines
Roosevelt Hotel
J. Robert Wickersham
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Washington, D. C
Cedar Rapids
John J. Wagner
National Association
R. W. McClaughry
Forbes Olberg
Merchants National Bank
Cedar Rapids Real Estate Board
Couple Purchases Home on Wisconsin Street in City
Wane L. Kolstos and wife bought the residence at 2429 Wisconsin Street SW from Lloyd J. Woods. The sale was handled by Town Securities Company. Other transfers include Clifford K. Firs house at 1145 Eighteenth Avenue SW sold to William E. Driscoll at 925 Twentieth Avenue SW with Feb. 7 possession.
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Annd
Wayne L. Kolsto
Eighth Avenue
Wisconsin Street
Lloyd J. Woods
Town Securities Company
Miller and Company
Clifford K. Firs
Eighteenth Averaie
William E. Driscoll
Ventieth Avenue
First
Norwood Drive
Clement J. Sharp
Thirteenth Avenue
First Street
Ania Shirk
Maquoketa
Sharps
Iowa Securities Company
Mary Leone Bezdek
Mrs William Tomash Buys House From Harvey R Vialls
Mrs William F Tomash of Palo farms buys the house at 1234 N Street SW from Harvey R and Mrs Viall. The Vialls moved to 8 Seventeenth Street SW. Empire Realty sold the property. The same realtors sold 2616 J Street SW to Louis W Gavitt formerly of 1932 First Avenue NE. The Skalsky home at 2720 Iowa Avenue SE was also sold.
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William F. Tomash
Palo
N Street
Harvey R. Viall
Lling
Vialls
Seventeenth Street
Empirempany
J Street
Louis W. Gavitt
First Avenue
George A. Skalsky
Iowa Avenue
Wiech To Use The Paddle
Instructions emphasize using a paint paddle instead of a brush. The guidance discourages stirring paint with a brush and promotes paddle use for mixing.
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Wiech
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John Byse
Clarence Hartgrave
Madison Street
Fifteenth Avenue
Carroll Gersh
Williamsburg
Dishong and Clymer
Naomi Doebel
Open
Deane K. Smiths
Chas. E. Joern
C.R. Realtors
Olberg
Mala
Lath
13Th Street
Empire
Home Improvement Headquarters
Sa, Ft
Insulation Board
Cedar Rapids Lumber CO. Incorporated
McKinley Street
Wane L. Kolstos Bay
Harvey R Vialls
Wm. Tomash
Rusco
Fourth Ave
Greene Square
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