Showing posts with label Riverview Park Des Moines. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Riverview Park Des Moines. Show all posts

Friday, May 2, 2008

Historic North Des Moines

To the left is the actual mallet used in the test-your-strength game at the old Riverview Park. Cool, right? Well stop in at the North Side Library for a gander at a whole collection of historic artifacts and documents from the Highland Park - Oak Park neighborhoods.

Vintage photographs, turn of the century yearbooks, menus from area restaurants, and items from Hi-Lan Dairy are just a part of the memorabilia room. In the year 2000 the North Side Library staff, Friends of the North Side Library, and numerous other individual contributors established a Millennium book collection and a Parks Area Heritage collection. Get a preview of the goods by clicking here.