A Hy-Vee store at 2540 E. Euclid Ave. after its construction was finished on Dec. 17, 1961. It was the 47th Hy-Vee store built. The Des Moines Register

Hormel representative Lee Eggers (left) supplies canned meat for a taste test by Hy-Vee buyer Harold Stange, President Dwight Vredenburg and buyer Bernard Frazier in 1964. Hy-Vee

Hy-Vee's produce department in November of 1979. The Des Moines Register

Hy-Vee at 2559 E. Euclid Ave. with its 16 checkout lanes in September of 1980. The Des Moines Register

A Hy-Vee store in Des Moines at 3330 Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. The Des Moines Register

An armored car was robbed at an Euclid Avenue Hy-Vee store on Dec. 11, 1981. The Des Moines Register

Margie Coats, pushes a shopping cart while her granddaughter Jennie Parks, 7, rides in

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