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A curious crowd observing the floodwaters from the Squaw Creek along Lincoln Way opposite the Hilton Coliseum in July, 1993. The coliseum was inundated with water and had to undergo extensive repairs. When Hilton was built in the 1960s, Merwin Dougal, the director of the Water Resources Research Institute at Iowa State University, warned the school's administration that it was unwise to build the Iowa State Center complex in the creek's flood plain. Needless to say, his advice was unheeded. C. Y. Stephens Auditorium can be seen in the center of the photograph.