Back Alley, Paullina, Iowa, by Jim Hamann
MEN WANTED for construction work on Concrete Grain Elevator, 90¢ per hour, 10 hours a day, 6 and 7 days a week. Time and ½ over 40 hours.
Tillotson Const Co. at Paullina, Ia.
The Alton, Iowa Democrat, Thursday, May 5, 1949
Editor’s note: In 2008, an explosion and fire injured a customer at the new elevator in Alton.
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Our Grandfathers' Grain Elevators 
My maternal grandfather, Peter P. Salzbrunn, died in a grain elevator construction accident in 1947 in Clinton, Iowa. According to my father, concrete was being poured for the head house and the scaffolding collapsed, sending several men plunging to their deaths.
Does that grain elevator still exist? I dimly remember seeing photos of it, but don’t remember anything distinctive about it–it was an ordinary-looking series of concrete elevators along the river.
Any information would be greatly appreciated.