Greenfield, IA: Lost/CB&Q Depot and Wood Grain Elevator

(Satellite)

Michael Emerson Avitt posted

Harry Graves: I filled in there as an "Extra relief agent/operator", in the fall of '67. By that time, that agency was "dualized" with Orient. A little old English lady ran the Orient elevator and they shipped a lot of grain, which I "billed out'! Mc Cafferty's Drug store, across from the depot, had a soda fountain where I could get a Lemon coke, whenever I wanted one. I stayed in the Hotel Greenfield and there was a really nice movie theatre in town. The blockbuster hit movie "Bonnie & Clyde" had just came out and I went to see it 2 nights in a row!

It probably was the slanted square a little west of 3rd Street and a little south of Oak Street.

1954/56 Greenfield Quad @ 62,500

There are a couple of blobs in that area by the tracks.

Apr 4, 1953 @ 23,600; AR1WY0000010014

Greenfield was on the branch from Creston to Cumberland.

1902

In fact, it is where the branch turns west. 

1954/67 Omaha Quad @ 250,000

The wood grain elevators made it into the 21st Century. All those tank wagons is a reminder that fertilizer is an important business for a co-op.

Street View, Nov 2007

The wood elevators were removed to make room for a BIG bin.

Street View, Oct 2024