The congregation at Broadway United Methodist Church in Council Bluffs is raising money to get its historic clock tower working again by hosting a 1950s-themed sock hop. I went 120 feet above the 100 Block in Council Bluffs to get a look inside the clock tower for myself.
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Council Bluffs church hosts sock hop to fix historic clock tower
The church building has been on Broadway since the 1890s and the current clock was added in the 1950s. The congregation itself is 175 years old — almost as old as Iowa.
Pastor Brian Kemp-Schlemmer said the church recently restored power to the tower: “We finally got electricity run up there again last year and the lights are on and it’s backlit again and everybody can see that it’s not working.”…