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- Details, Details
- What's that building to the left of the tower?
- Coal Barges
- Bromo-Seltzer
- Inner harbor
- The Basin
- What a headache!
- Giant stepladder?
- Baldwin 62303
- Baldwin VO-1000
- Cold
- No expense spared
- Tough Guys
- Lost in Toyland
- And without gloves
- If I were a blindfolded time traveler
- Smoke Consumer Also Cooks
- Oh that stove!
- Possibly still there?
- What?!?
- $100 Reward
- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
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Andy's Cafe: 1941
September 1941. "Stockmen's and farmers' and truckers' hotel near Union Stockyards. South Omaha, Nebraska." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott for the FSA. View full size.
The Last Roundup
Surviving for a surprisingly long time, the area received some sympathetic coverage at the end.
Where our customers must be satisfied
Andy's Cafe makes quite a promise. I assume he was trying to draw customers out of the Stockman's Hotel and Restaurant across the street. The Stockman's neon blade sign says, 26 & N Street. The 1940 Omaha directory lists Andy's cafe at 2524 N Street, and Gross Lumber & Wrecking at 2522 (you can see the numbers in the photo) N Street. Here is an Earth view of that intersection today. The heart is where I believe Andy's was, since the trolly tracks turn to the right (towards downtown).
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Czech influence
Frank Pivonka - the name on the very top of the building in the center-back, had a saloon on Seventh and Jones street. He was the first Czech to settle there. He was born January 19, 1840, and built the Pivonka Block. He’s maybe this guy https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61824231/frank-frederick-pivonka.
All gone now ...
This appears to be the intersection of South 26th Street and N Street, in an area that seems to have been demolished to make way for the JFK Expressway, Interstate 75.
Interestingly, Shorpy favorite John Vachon seems to have taken a picture of this place in November 1938.
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