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The South Bottoms is a Sioux City, Iowa, neighborhood that no longer exists. It was roughly bordered by the Stockyards on the east, the Grand Avenue (now the Gordon Drive) viaduct on the north and the river and downtown on the south and west. Most South Bottoms residents were immigrants who worked in the nearby packing houses or for the railroads. It was a unique ethnically diverse neighborhood that flourished until the 1953 Floyd River flood began to tear it apart. The relocation of the Floyd River channel and urban renewal to contruct Interstate 29 sealed the fate of "the last great neighborhood." Produced in 2009 by G.R. Lindblade & Co., 25 minutes.
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