Review of
Postcard
History Series: Waterloo, by Brandon J. Brockway ISBN 9780738583396
Five out of stars
The books in
the postcard history series are some of the most interesting, for they tell the
history of the subject via images that people considered to be most significant
at the time. In this case the subject is Waterloo, Iowa. The pictures are of
buildings, streets, parks and other memorable features of the city, many of
which no longer exist. At one time, Waterloo was a major manufacturing center,
the John Deere plant took up acres and the Rath Packing Company slaughtered
approximately 1.5 million animals each year. Those facilities are pictured,
Rath is now but a memory, shutting down in 1985. Churches, advertisements for
the city and a few other gimmicks are also included.
A short
explanatory caption is included with each image, nothing extensive, just enough
so that the reader unfamiliar with the region will know what is being pictured.
This is a fun book to look through, there is nothing definitive about the history,
just a collection of easy to understand snippets about a city that has
undergone significant change.
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