Quad Cities - Postcard Past / Present Photo

Merged image of the 1940s postcard with a 2024 photo

Nov 18, 2024 Quad Cities Iowa From the archive

Municipal Stadium, Davenport, Iowa

Davenport, Iowa is home to one of the prettiest ballparks in the country, the Quad Cities River Bandits’ Modern Woodmen Park wedged between a rail line and the Mississippi River with a bridge looming over right field. Not that you’d necessarily know it from this postcard.

Oct 3, 2023 Quad Cities Illinois

Second Avenue, Rock Island, Illinois

A once-stately hotel demolished and replaced by a steel-and-glass office building, an Italianate survivor still chugging along nearly 150 years later after a recent rehab, and between them a 1970s pedestrian mall intended to revitalize downtown Rock Island as commerce moved to the suburbs.

Sep 1, 2023 Iowa Illinois Quad Cities

Government Bridge between Davenport, Iowa and Rock Island, Illinois

The spiritual heir to the first railroad bridge to cross the Mississippi River, this is actually the fourth bridge connecting Davenport to Rock Island’s Arsenal Island.

Jul 10, 2023 Quad Cities Illinois

First National Bank, Rock Island, Illinois

This sucks–the last thing Rock Island needs is more parking lots. The Modern Woodmen of America demolished this handsome International style office building in 2020. Designed by Stuhr, Parkhurst & Appier and completed in 1963, it was one of only two examples of the style in Rock Island.

Jun 26, 2023 Quad Cities Illinois

Masonic Temple, Rock Island, Illinois

Rock Island’s Masonic Temple is a funny little example of the declining influence of fraternal organizations in the US.