Grand Falls Casino Resort: art work, "Grand Falls in Magic"

Sioux City Orpheum Theatre: Chandeliers with Interior Architecture

Chandeliers nad Interior architecture of Sioux City Orpheum Theatre.

Previous articles in the series:
Sioux City Orpheum Theatre: Introduction and Timeline
Sioux City Orpheum Theatre: Interior Art 01/24/2017
Sioux City Orpheum Theatre: Peavy Grand Opera House Display

Sioux City Orpheum Theatre: Peavy Grand Opera House Display

Portrait and seat from the Peavy Grand Opera House on display at the Sioux City Orpheum Theatre.

Previous articles in the series:
Sioux City Orpheum Theatre: Introduction and Timeline
Sioux City Orpheum Theatre: Interior Art 01/24/2017

Private Collection: Orpheum Theater Grand Re-Opening Ticket

This admission ticket was issued to those who were invited to attend the grand re-opening event on September 15, 2001. It is also a collector item for the attendees. The admissions ticket is in a private collection in NW Iowa.

Previous articles in the series:
Private Collection: Kodak Partytime Instant Camera
Private Collection: Kiwi Shoe Server Kit
Private Collection: 1930's Listerine Bottle
Private Collection: The New Orpheum 80th Anniversary Commemorative Merlot Bottle
Private Collection: Fat's Inagural Great Beer Ride Across Iowa Bottle
Private Collection: Odell Brewing and Boulevard Brewing Companies Silver Anniversary Bottle
Private Collection: 2012 Model A Day Lager Bottle
Private Collection: c.1961 Motorola Record Player
Private Collection: California Raisin
Private Collection: Bedtime Bert
Private Collection: Idora Beaute Container
Private Collection: Standard Bearings Bottle Top
Private Collection: Vintage J. R. Watkins Menthol Camphor Container
Private Collection: Moosehaven, Florida Anniversary Plate
Private Collection: 1960 Coronado Dog Tax
Private Collection: Barley Dog Tag
Private Collection: Glenwood Safety Patrol Badge
Private Collection: 1964 Journeyman Plumber Coin
Private Collection: 1961 Park Forest Dog License
Private Collection: Langridge Drugs Tiny Bond
Private Collection: 1970's Baby Cloth Diaper Safety Pin
Private Collection: Midge Toy Die Cast Car
Private Collection: Cub Scouts 50th Anniversary Mug
Private Collection: Vintage Monopoly Game Piece
Private Collection: Rengo Obesity Treatment Box Lid
Private Collection: Air Way Auto Compass
Private Collection: Norlund Ice Cleat
Private Collection: 1970's Hy-Vee Sugar Free Root Beer Can
Private Collection: Outers No. 444 Gunslick Gun Cleaning Solvent
Private Collection: Taber's Floex Metal Gasket Cement Bottle
Private Collection: Matchbook, Elliott Lumber and Coal
Private Collection: Matchbook, The Tiki
Private Collection: Matchbook, The Tin Cup Restaurant, El Mirador Cocktail Lounge, and Hotel Francis
Private Collection: Matchbook, Turn Style
Private Collection: Matchbook, Baker Auto Parts
Private Collection: Matchbook, Union Bank
Private Collection: 1930's to 1940's Hamms Beer Can
Private Collection: 1930's to 1940's Stag Beer Can
Private Collection: The Great Muppet Caper Glasses
Private Collection: Smurf Glasses, Smurfette
Private Collection: A&W Dancing Bear Glass
Private Collection: Fly Fishing Reel
Private Collection: 4th Brewing Company Beer Coasters
Private Collection: Twirling Baton
Private Collection: Pipes and Pipe Stand
Private Collection: Depression era Rittenhouse Door Chime
Private Collection: 1960's Ceramic Duck

Private Collection: Vintage Air Pump

Private Collection: Auto Strop Safety Razor
Private Collection: Hemming Reloading Service Ammunition Box
Private Collection: 1984 Chicago Cubs
Private Collection: Late 1950's, Early 1960's Tonka Allied Moving Truck
Private Collection: Schwinn American Advertisement
Private Collection: 1992 Topps Micro Baseball Cards
Private Collection: 1966 Batman Pin
Private Collection: Barilla Plus Souvenir Hacky Sack
Private Collection: Brian Duffy RAGBRAI Cartoon Cube
Private Collection: RAGBRAI Playing Cards
Private Collection: RAGBRAI XXVI, 1998
Private Collection: RAGBRAI XXXVI, 2008 Souvenir
Private Collection: RAGBRAI XXXVIII, 2010 Souvenir
Private Collection: RAGBRAI XLIV, 2006 Souvenir
Private Collection: RAGBRAI XLIII, 2015 Souvenir
Private Collection: 1985 Polish Postage Stamp
Private Collection: Bicycle Poker Chip
Private Collection: Bicycle Tournament Coin
Private Collection: 1972 Munich Olympic Games Cycling Pin
Private Collection: 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games Russian Soviet Cycling Pin
Private Collection: 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games Cycling Pins, Magnet, and Coin
Private Collection: Marineland Pennant
Private Collection: Chicago Cubs 1984 N.L. East Division Champions Pennant
Private Collection: Iowa Cubs Pennant

Peavey Grand Opera House Portrait

In the Sioux City Public Skywalk is a portrait is a former historic building called the Peavey Grand Opera House:

Grand Views from Grandview Park

On Tuesday May 22, 2012 the Sioux City Public Museum conducted a walking tour at one of Sioux City's most historic parks, Grandview Park.

Timeline:

1885: The first of 2 water reservoirs are constructed on the highest hill of what was to become Grandview Park. The reservoir was a very large pool that held about 2 million gallons of water.

1906: At a time when there was no park sentiment in Sioux City 30 acres of pastureland were purchased on the city's north side by an independent park commission head by Edwin C. Peters.

Within 2 years 2,200 trees had been planted and grass seed and sod covered the grounds. Flower gardens started to bloom and winding drives meandered through the hills of the 30 acre area.

August 1908: 3,500 people gathered to watch the commission present the  new Grandview Park to the city of Sioux City.

As Sioux City grew Grandview Park provided a place people could  play, enjoy nature and listen to music.

1924: John and Elizabeth Magoun donated the Lincoln Statue located at the south entrance to the park. It is a very similar likeness of the late president that Mr. Magoun had admired in Jefferson, Iowa.

1930: The Monahan Post Band, lead by Leo Kucinski, who was Sioux City's "Mr. Music", began an earnest campaign to build a band shell. The city parks department was willing to cooperate but there were no funds available due to the Great Depression.

August 1930: Friends of the Monahan Post Band agreed to guarantee a small construction loan for a simple structure, which the band would repay. Work began on the band shell.

Neighboring property owners felt the modest structure was unworthy of the beautiful setting of the park and work on the project halted. With the plan to build the structure on hold until a more acceptable band shell could be built the band worked to secure more funds.

November 7, 1933: 2 things happened to change the scope and size of the band shell project: President Roosevelt created the Civil Works Administration, or CWA. The manager of the Monahan Post Band was shown a drawing of a music shell that had won an honorable mention at a Paris competition.

Late 1933 to early 1934: Applications were prepared asking that the development of the natural amphitheater and construction of the band shell in Grandview Park be included in the CWA projects for Sioux City. Within two weeks, nineteen civic organizations had endorsed the proposal. The requests were sent to Des Moines and Washington D.C.

February 26, 1934: The application was approved and the band pavilion project became CWA Project Number 217. Award-winning plan by local architect Henry Kamphoefner was accepted as the perfect design for the Grandview Park music pavilion. It later won the notice of designers around the world and received numerous awards.

March 5, 1934: Despite a delay in the project when the CWA was reorganized under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration work on the project began.

October 17, 1934: The last cement was poured for the band shell.

The structure required 52 tons of reinforcing steel, 4,200 bags of Portland cement, and 300 bags of white cement. Herschel Elarth designed the sculptured plaques on the front. First, he created the figures in clay. Then molds of the designs were made and brought to Sioux City. Casts of the molds were then made in white cement.

The orchestral stage was designed to accommodate 100 musicians or a chorus of 300. The building also featured two large dressing rooms, two smaller dressing rooms, a conductor's room, library, and storage room. Seating for 5,000 was constructed in the natural amphitheatre. Project costs, as approved by the CWA, included $47,436 from Federal Relief funds and $3,800 in materials from the city of Sioux City.

Spring 1935: The music pavilion was dedicate. The Monahan Post Band played there every summer. 

1937: The current Rose Garden was created where it is today. It was sponsored by the Sioux City Municipal Rose Garden Association, a partnership of the Iowa Rose Society, Sioux City Garden Club, American Association of University Women and other interested individuals. Designed by landscape architect Newell Guernsey the rose garden features: more than 100 varieties of roses and arching trellises.

February 17, 1938: Sioux City Journal described one tribute: "The Sioux City music pavilion in Grandview Park, brain child of a young, unemployed and unknown architect of the city, who drew the plans in the basement studio at his home here, is to be included in an exhibit of the American Institute of Architecture, which will be shown throughout the United States and in Europe. This latest honor will place it among ~100 representative and distinguished (structures) erected in the United States since 1918."

1948: The Monahan Post Band became the Sioux City Municipal Band. The still play their free concerts at the band shell every summer to this day.

Links to more info and source:
Grandview Park & the Band Shell
Grandview Park Water Tanks
Sioux City History & Culture by Bicycle Part 7: Grandview Park