Windows, doors, rivers and signs from Urban Hike thru downtown Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids Downtown Firestone

Saturday Night Alley Trash

Hach Bros Co

Cedar River I

Fieldhouse Downtown-Back entrance

Cedar River II

Dock & Door...and Benches

Area of Refuge

Lincoln Hwy

 Downtown CR

graffiti from under I-380

 Cedar Lake thru Train Cars

 Cedar Rapids Train Station

 Canada & Quaker Mills

Another Canadian Train Car

Electricity Generation....

From one of today's (11/17/12) Urban Hikes thru Cedar Rapids

Castolon Store(and original bar!)

Luna's Jacal

Here at the edge of Alamo Creek, Gilberto Luna raised a large family in this small house call a jacal. Built from rock, earth and plant fiber, the dwelling was well-adapted to desert conditions: notice a dramatic temperature difference as you step inside. Luna irrigated the land he farmed with floodwater he diverted from the nearby creek.

During the early years, Alamo Creek was the path used by raiding Comanches to attack Mexican villages and settlements. Luna managed to maintain peaceful relations with the Comanches and his fellow Mexicans before dying in 1947 at the age of 108.