where I'm from in 50 pictures
here's the house I was born in. dad was 24, mom was 18.
about a year later they moved into this house. my sister was born.
one day I was riding on my Tonka truck on the sidewalk, and these two brats came along with a bb gun. they thought it would be funny to shoot me in the balls. well, they missed. I told mom & dad but they didn't believe me... after 38 years, I found it in granny's basement.
2 years later they had this house built.
13 years later they had this house built.
back view
here's the high school. dismal. the principal and his cronies hated my guts (and I hated them too) so they made up a story that I locked the janitor on the roof so they could kick me out! and kick me out they did. can you believe that!
so I went to work here. this is THE pizza place. the guy is so rich he bought the whole strip mall so he doesn't have to pay rent anymore.
this was the 7-11 out in the middle of nowhere by my house. where I got my first ticket for driving without a license, where I dodged my first cop, where I swiped my first case of beer. where did all this &&& come from?!
I did a lot of carpentry all over town, but this is the only house I built completely from start to finish.
back view
another large project, fire damage, we tore everything down, left nothing but the walls, rebuilt and reroofed it.
girlfriend's house
what do you do with a stump?
this is the kwik shop I worked at, out in the middle of nowhere. I met another girlfriend when she started working there, we went behind the coolers and smooched, thought nobody would see us but they did... a customer got a can of pop and saw us, snitched us off and we got in trouble. now look at it! where did all this &&& come from??
here's her house
me and stormy went to the dog park, it's an old baseball field. it goes waaaay back to those lights back there. it's huge.
this used to be a regular street! what's all this *&*&*??
my cousins own this restaurant. they expanded to 3, but now they're retired and just kept the first store.
World Famous Soma Sandwich! I was told it's "some-a this, some-a that". but Aldous Huxley fans might get a different idea. 5 bucks.
my grandma (dad's mom) had a furniture store, this jewish lady would come in and buy furniture on loan, sell it and pay her back. grandma's went out of business, but the jewish lady's went on to be the biggest furniture/appliance retailer in the midwest. it's so big, here's 4 pictures of it from right to left.
here's a food fixture in town. you either love this food or you hate it.
yum yum
same here. greasy hamburger meat in a baked bun. love it or hate it.
I like it.
this place has exploded! since I left, it grew 5 miles out, all nice new expensive houses. I left because there wasn't much for jobs there. WHERE did they get the $$$ to build all this?!?!? HOW can these people afford all this?!?!?
5 miles of this
and this
that's all houses, all new
the parents went here to eat a lot. I didn't mind it, sis hated it. so I dragged her and her kids here for dinner. the Bohemian Cafe.
it's all old folks now! what happened?
Svickova. "well... uh huh... you're right. the food really does suck!"
Pilsner Urquell. not bad.
their "package liquor lounge", hasn't changed in 30 years as far as I can remember. those are ceramic bottles of liquor.
then we split over to dad's house. here's the sis, her husband & clan
one of dad's chessboards. I played him hundreds of times, only beat him once in my whole life. I know this chessboard quite well.
dad's bookshelf
more beer steins
his dad's house up yonder. all this was his dad's farm, just to the left of where that house is with the car was the farmhouse built in 1910, didn't get electricity until 1957, would have been a nebraska state landmark if it wasn't sold and torn down to build these houses. the whole subdivision was his farm. behind me (can't see it) is a cemetery, that was the other half of the farm.
mom's mom's house. a few blocks away from dad's dad's house. her husband was an alcoholic, she drove him nuts, the last time anyone saw him he was choking the *(&( out of her on the front lawn underneath that window March 1964. he left.
...and here she is
85 years old. really makes me think, ya know. I got another 45 years and I'm going to look like that.
here's what the rest of nebraska looks like.
as they say in nebraska... uuhhh... bye!
about a year later they moved into this house. my sister was born.
one day I was riding on my Tonka truck on the sidewalk, and these two brats came along with a bb gun. they thought it would be funny to shoot me in the balls. well, they missed. I told mom & dad but they didn't believe me... after 38 years, I found it in granny's basement.
2 years later they had this house built.
13 years later they had this house built.
back view
here's the high school. dismal. the principal and his cronies hated my guts (and I hated them too) so they made up a story that I locked the janitor on the roof so they could kick me out! and kick me out they did. can you believe that!
so I went to work here. this is THE pizza place. the guy is so rich he bought the whole strip mall so he doesn't have to pay rent anymore.
this was the 7-11 out in the middle of nowhere by my house. where I got my first ticket for driving without a license, where I dodged my first cop, where I swiped my first case of beer. where did all this &&& come from?!
I did a lot of carpentry all over town, but this is the only house I built completely from start to finish.
back view
another large project, fire damage, we tore everything down, left nothing but the walls, rebuilt and reroofed it.
girlfriend's house
what do you do with a stump?
this is the kwik shop I worked at, out in the middle of nowhere. I met another girlfriend when she started working there, we went behind the coolers and smooched, thought nobody would see us but they did... a customer got a can of pop and saw us, snitched us off and we got in trouble. now look at it! where did all this &&& come from??
here's her house
me and stormy went to the dog park, it's an old baseball field. it goes waaaay back to those lights back there. it's huge.
this used to be a regular street! what's all this *&*&*??
my cousins own this restaurant. they expanded to 3, but now they're retired and just kept the first store.
World Famous Soma Sandwich! I was told it's "some-a this, some-a that". but Aldous Huxley fans might get a different idea. 5 bucks.
my grandma (dad's mom) had a furniture store, this jewish lady would come in and buy furniture on loan, sell it and pay her back. grandma's went out of business, but the jewish lady's went on to be the biggest furniture/appliance retailer in the midwest. it's so big, here's 4 pictures of it from right to left.
here's a food fixture in town. you either love this food or you hate it.
yum yum
same here. greasy hamburger meat in a baked bun. love it or hate it.
I like it.
this place has exploded! since I left, it grew 5 miles out, all nice new expensive houses. I left because there wasn't much for jobs there. WHERE did they get the $$$ to build all this?!?!? HOW can these people afford all this?!?!?
5 miles of this
and this
that's all houses, all new
the parents went here to eat a lot. I didn't mind it, sis hated it. so I dragged her and her kids here for dinner. the Bohemian Cafe.
it's all old folks now! what happened?
Svickova. "well... uh huh... you're right. the food really does suck!"
Pilsner Urquell. not bad.
their "package liquor lounge", hasn't changed in 30 years as far as I can remember. those are ceramic bottles of liquor.
then we split over to dad's house. here's the sis, her husband & clan
one of dad's chessboards. I played him hundreds of times, only beat him once in my whole life. I know this chessboard quite well.
dad's bookshelf
more beer steins
his dad's house up yonder. all this was his dad's farm, just to the left of where that house is with the car was the farmhouse built in 1910, didn't get electricity until 1957, would have been a nebraska state landmark if it wasn't sold and torn down to build these houses. the whole subdivision was his farm. behind me (can't see it) is a cemetery, that was the other half of the farm.
mom's mom's house. a few blocks away from dad's dad's house. her husband was an alcoholic, she drove him nuts, the last time anyone saw him he was choking the *(&( out of her on the front lawn underneath that window March 1964. he left.
...and here she is
85 years old. really makes me think, ya know. I got another 45 years and I'm going to look like that.
here's what the rest of nebraska looks like.
as they say in nebraska... uuhhh... bye!
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Thanks for posting. I enjoyed it[:)] 0 -
yeeeeerr welcome!
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This post must have taken forever to post...none the less, thanks for posting it.[:)] 0 -
I enjoyed the nice journey, too. Thanks. [:)] 0 -
Quite interesting, thanks for sharing. This whole time I thought you were from St. Louis. 0 -
Ahhh.......there is only 48 pictures, where are the other 2?
I feel cheated. [:(]
Just kiddin, nice pics and captions.0 -
I would love to do my life in 50 pictures like you did! Thanks for posting it. I may even try it, but it would take me a few years to back track and take pictures of things.
I think that's great you did this!0 -
Looks like that makes you an Omaha boy, Moved out west around west Center Road or Pacific street and went to Burke it looks like. Younger years probably closer to midtown Omaha which put you in or around the 52nd street to 30th street area, probably close to Dodge street. Bohemian Cafe is on 13th and Woolworth. So, how did I do on this? Dave 0 -
South Omaha boy here! 60th & "L" Street, used to keep my horses over on 48th & Harrison. Would ride all over town, all the time. Yep, Omaha thinks it's a big classy city, but it really will always be a cowtown.[:p]
Got Guns?0 -
Thanks for posting the pic's [:)]
I enjoyed them alot !!!0 -
I can think of a couple of places right at 48th and Harrison where there were horses. Did you happen to have horses at Eddie and Dodie's place? They were a couple blocks off of there, but I know they boarded horses.
Dave0 -
Thanks for the pics, I enjoyed them. 0 -
Very nice pictures and a great story to go along with them. Thanks. 0 -
really cool pics, especially the beer steins[8D] 0 -
Thanks for the post. Great pictures. 0 -
Kool...Thanks for posting that. It is always neat to see how other people have grown up and then realize how similiar all of our lives really are!!!!
Great job buschmaster0 -
Excellent tour, Thanks. 0 -
thats a very well done diary of your personal history bush 0 -
Very nice work!
You're not dying are you?0 -
Great composition! I enjoyed it. You guys must have been rich! 0 -
Where I am those houses would be over $700,000, and you would have to be a doctor married to a lawer to buy one. Nice pictures! 0 -
You should thank god they were a bad shot!!! 0 -
A very interesting post and the house that you built yourself would be in the $1 million range (easily) here in Orange County, CA. Svickova, which is roast tenderloin in a sour cream sauce (there is a Polish dish very much like it) and a cold Czech pilsner is heaven on earth at dinner time [:p]. 0 -
I also enjoyed the journey. Nice job putting it together!
At 65 I too reflect on the wonder of my life and the life of my parents and grandparents. Each of us has a life story to tell and its a little sad at the end but to live a full life up to 80+ is a joy!
I encourage you to capture all the information that you can and put it in a form that you can hand off to your children and relatives. It keeps the families rich history alive in the minds of everyone, when they choose to sit down and read it. They will do this at some point in their lives.0 -
quote:Quite interesting, thanks for sharing. This whole time I thought you were from St. Louis.I'm in St. Louis, but I'm from Omaha.quote:Ahhh.......there is only 48 pictures, where are the other 2?
I feel cheated.whoops!
quote:Looks like that makes you an Omaha boy, Moved out west around west Center Road or Pacific street and went to Burke it looks like. Younger years probably closer to midtown Omaha which put you in or around the 52nd street to 30th street area, probably close to Dodge street. Bohemian Cafe is on 13th and Woolworth. So, how did I do on this? Davemidtown when I was about 1' tall, then out by 114th & pacific, then out by 132nd & blondo. yep, that was burke high.
quote:South Omaha boy here! 60th & "L" Street, used to keep my horses over on 48th & Harrison. Would ride all over town, all the time. Yep, Omaha thinks it's a big classy city, but it really will always be a cowtown.used to go past there a lot on the way to u-pull-it. know the Spellmans? one of 'em was my sister's first husband. 2 of those kids are his.
quote:Good post, buschmaster, thanks for all the work.
You told in pictures the way a lot of people feel. It reminded me of an old song, had to look up the lyrics:
Nine miles of two-strand topped with barbed wire
Laid by the father for the son.
Good shelter down on the valley floor,
Down where the sweet stream runs.
They're busy building airports on the south side.
Silicon chip factory on the east.
And the big road's pushing through the valley floor.
Hot machine pouring six lanes at the very least.
They say they gave me compensation.
That's not what I'm chasing. I was a rich man before yesterday.
Now all I have left is a broken-down pickup truck.
Looks like my farm is a freeway.
They forgot what this old land was for.
Grow two tons the acre, between the stones.
This was no Southfork, it was no Ponderosa.
But it was the place that I called home.the folks used to tell me and my sister they didn't have any money but they were rich, 'cuz they had us. we were like "huh??" well now we know what they were talking about.
quote:You're not dying are you?hell no!
quote:Where I am those houses would be over $700,000, and you would have to be a doctor married to a lawer to buy one. Nice pictures!they're probably going for 150-250K+ there in Omaha, I don't have a clue where all those people got jobs to pay for their houses!! and the houses are all like that. I'm confounded.
quote:You should thank god they were a bad shot!!!hell yes!
quote:A very interesting post and the house that you built yourself would be in the $1 million range (easily) here in Orange County, CA. Svickova, which is roast tenderloin in a sour cream sauce (there is a Polish dish very much like it) and a cold Czech pilsner is heaven on earth at dinner time.an architect designed it himself, bought the materials himself and had us build it. he saved a lot of $$$, I forgot what he said it cost him total. probably 120K. that was 1988.
if you like svickova, you'd like the bohemian cafe. they have all that stuff, believe me.
quote:At 65 I too reflect on the wonder of my life and the life of my parents and grandparents. Each of us has a life story to tell and its a little sad at the end but to live a full life up to 80+ is a joy!
I encourage you to capture all the information that you can and put it in a form that you can hand off to your children and relatives. It keeps the families rich history alive in the minds of everyone, when they choose to sit down and read it. They will do this at some point in their lives.yep... the folks had their picture albums, me and sis have our digital cameras.0 -
Great essay! I even showed it to my girlfriend and she loved it too! I hope you don't mind if I copy the idea when I get a digital and learn how to use it and post up!
PS I'm a big fan of McCook, Nebraska.0 -
VERY NICE LOVE THE CAFE MY WIFES BOHEMIAN..[:)][:)] 0 -
Thanks man. Good essay 0 -
This really is a great summation of your life in photo's. I know all the areas because I grew up in the same general locations. Early years around 30 & Woolworth, then Papillion and for awhile around 144th and center. Not there anymore either but it was good to see the pictures as it not only gave great info on your life but brought back many memories for me. Thanks. Dave 0 -
Turns a man down right sintimental. I bet if you shake that little yella truck you can still hear the dat gummed bb rattling around. 0
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