Time Machine: The Bachman building goes from Cedar Rapids saloon to bank to Hawaiian music ...
(World News USA)

In 1893, the Mittvalsky and Bachman building stood near the northwest corner of First Street and Third Avenue SE where CRST International’s parking garage now sits in Cedar Rapids. It was a two-story, two-business brick structure backing up to the Cedar River. The north half belonged to the estate of an esteemed butcher, Frank Mittvalsky; the south part was owned by Charles C. Bachman. It housed H.H. Euken’s grocery and the Zalesky saloon on the ground floor; the upper floor held a dressmaking shop, a law office and some rented rooms. The roof of the building was shiplap overlaid by tin, fastened to 1-by-12 joists with wire shingle nails. A violent windstorm in July 1893 caught...