Grocery Stores of Council Bluffs

One type of store virtually everyone has patronized is the grocery store. Council Bluffs has had over 150 of them, from Mom and Pop shops to the largest supermarket in the state of Iowa. This short video is a very brief overview of a few for which the Historical Society had information in the archives. We hope this to be just a starting point in a project to create a historical record of the retailers that have fed Council Bluffs over years. If you have memories or photos to share of local grocery stores and markets please contact us at [e-mail]. or read and share comments on the Facebook discussion at fb.watch/6w0ed...
There is also a history of grocery stores on the Historical Society website at: www.thehistori...

[@patricktinley6545]

Rog & Scott's on East Broadway was the grocery store of my childhood and my first employer.

[@garymorris1856]

I grew up in Omaha, but I know Council Bluffs very well. This is interesting to watch. Thank you for posting this.

[@councilbluffsrevealed4429]

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for taking the time to comment!

[@garymorris1856]

@@councilbluffsrevealed4429 I remember many of these stores, such as Rog and Scotty's

[@ghostofmanitou6864]

For many years my father worked at the Safeway bread plant that was on the North side of what was Jobbers Canyon in downtown Omaha. A Union job with good wages and we always had fresh bread and lots of other baked products around the house.

[@richardwarner4719]

I do remember a wonderful baking bread smell down in that area sometimes; it must have been from that plant!

[@davidyoung8521]

Used to shop at Rog & was a spring feed horse wateringScotty's at Broadway and Frank I remember when they started the construction of the addition . The excavation filled with spring warer. Many years earlier, there was a spring feed horse watering trough in the area,

[@troyteager4435]

Bubbs market

[@melindaharris1882]

Thank you so much the pictures and video. Born, raised, and live in CB. My childhood grocery store was Jim and Dean's, my dad was close friend with the owner Jim, who many people never knew actually lived with his wife underneath the grocery store! I know because I went down there ( the home) many times with my dad and made Jim laugh when I was finding it so amusing that he never ever had to leave because his home, job, and his grocery store all in one place!

[@councilbluffsrevealed4429]

Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for taking the time to share your comments; never heard that about the home under store before!

[@finalvoyage35]

Very good! I heard the Lakeside Country Store/Cenex Gas used to be a grocery store on the site.

[@councilbluffsrevealed4429]

Thanks for the kind words; we appreciate the feedback! The video loosely follows an article from the Nonpareil's 175th Anniversary special; if you didn't see it we reprinted the article on our website: www.thehistoricalsociety.org/h/grocery-stores.html

[@PatrickTarr-g6v]

Loved this video. I remember as a kid that we went to many of these, particularly Shavers, Safeway, Hinky Dinky. And when I was younger I worked at Rog & Scotty's (both West and East Broadway). Does anyone remember Warehouse Market out by K-Mart?

[@councilbluffsrevealed4429]

Glad you enjoyed the video! Where was Warehouse Market? In the same shopping area as K-Mart?

[@PatrickTarr-g6v]

@@councilbluffsrevealed4429 Yes, I think there is a Bomgaars there now. I haven't been out that way in a while, so not sure. But the Warehouse Market was at the other end of that plaza from K-Mart.

[@councilbluffsrevealed4429]

Thanks!

[@lynnwilliamson1650]

Did I miss jubilee?

[@MegaDeadhead69]

Jubilee is just Hinky Dinky same store different name.