• Joel BaderNeighbor

  • West Des Moines, IA

I'm a photographer, PR person and blogger-for now. One of these days, I hope to learn how to do websites and actually making my computer setup work, not to mention remembering the passwords and usernames.

I've lived in the Des Moines area for all of my life-Cornell, Windsor, Merrill, Roosevelt, Drake. I recall when Southwoods Park was in the middle of farmland and the Des Moines Golf and Country Club was actually in the country. I even recall silver-bullet passenger trains operated by the old Rock Island railroad which more than lived up to their nickname of "The Rocket". And I recall visiting the Riverview amusement park, film cameras (with negatives which were two inches by two inches--my father had a twin-lens Ikoflex) and visiting the Iowa State Fair during that time when many of the buildings should have been called "Condemned". (Fortunately, in the last case, many stepped to save them.)

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