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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2022
- Humble beginnings for Omaha. Stockyards, meat packing, breweries.....and a Worlds Fair! What do you think?
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Born and raised in Lincoln NE with many visits to Omaha. The impossibility of it all didn't register with me until decades later after I became an architectural tradesman and theological researcher.
Basements are almost required in Omaha, rare if missing. The street was lowered and a floor added beneath that church, my uncle worked on grading that street. A few of my kids graduated from Central High. It is a gorgeous building
I'm from and live in Omaha and I'm amazed of the beauty I saw in this video. Wished a lot of these buildings thrived today.
Do palm tree still grow in Omaha?
@@timothydillow3160 I wished! It gets too cold here in the winter time.
Imagine if the Trans-Mississippi and Int’l Exposition grounds were kept up downtown Omaha, it would’ve been the Venice of the Midwest
@@Seagulltrash I know right! Such a unique event that I wished they didn't tear down.
What happened to all those detailed buildings 😥I live in Omaha and never knew these building existed, did something bad happen on what we are not being told?
Yes I lived in Omaha for over 50 years and I have been in most of those buildings at one time or another
Me 2
I was once a hod carrier for a mason. I mixed cement and carried a lot of bricks.The boss-man told me it takes around ten years to learn the bricklaying trade. Back then, I suppose, babies were born with a brick trowel in their hand!
Holy crap. The Omaha Central High School is mentioned twice. That is the original State Capital and that's why it looks like one. I don't think much research is done for this.
I agree not a lot of research. Several of my children graduated from that high school
The Second Territorial Capitol (not state capitol) was completed in 1858 on what was called Capitol Hill, located on 20th Street between Dodge and Davenport. It was offered to the city of Omaha for use as a school in November 1869 but was determined to be unsafe and demolished in 1870. It was never used as a school.
The new Omaha High School building was completed on the same site in 1872. That structure lasted until about 1910. The present structure known as Central High School, started construction about 1900 and was completed about 1912 in 4 phases. Both structures occupied that location at the same time, until the 1872 school building was finally torn down and removed about 1910. This allowed for the final phase of construction and the north wing was completed. It was officially called Central High School in 1915.
There are tunnels all over downtown. There was one from brandies building to woolworths. One from central high school too.
And the tunnels are still there but closed off by iron doors to this day!!
I live in Omaha today and I really wish they would’ve built it to be permanently made, can you imagine having the Trans- Mississippi/ International Expo tone permanent, it would be the place to be every night and day!!!
Wait a second... Is this some kind of Tartaria channel? I'm from Omaha and was just sitting down to watch a cool look back at our architectural history. Yeah, people who lived on the plains of Nebraska in the 1800s lived in sod houses. Because there was literally no infrastructure for hundreds of miles in all directions. But yeah, in cities like Omaha, they had modern buildings. Because people in the 19th century were capable of building really complex structures, with indoor plumbing, and beautiful stonework, and lots of other things. Omaha was not a poor city. It prospered, because it was one of the furthest-west ports on a major river. It also became a regional financial center, meat packing town, and farming town. In time, there was also a lot of manufacturing here, and this became a hub for the railroads. It was not a poor or primitive place. When you say, "We have no idea how these buildings went up," what the heck are you talking about? Of course we know how they went up. They used bricks, and mortar, and cement, and trowels, and scaffolding. It's not a mystery. It's literally documented in photographs, in letters, in journals, all over the place. And I had to laugh when you asked, "Do these buildings look young to you?" This might blow your mind, but there is such a thing as trends in architecture. If you know about architecture, you know that there are reasons why buildings in certain eras, and in certain places, are made out of certain materials, or in certain styles. A lot of the buildings in your photos are still standing today and I assure you that their construction is well documented. I mean, what the heck are you getting at??? 🤷♂
Wait a second...is this one of those viewers who feels the need to regurgitate the conventional historical narrative as a rebuttal to the alternative I'm suggesting? Did you know we are trained and rewarded from a young age to repeat what we are told and shame those who question authority? This might blow your mind...if you had the courage to question the narrative.
@@oldworldexomg you are loony tunes, dude!!
@@oldworldexYeah, you’re way misinformed. Great photos, but your theory is right up there with flat earthers.
I'll take that as a compliment..@@EricHaley
@@oldworldex 🤣🤣🤣
I was born and raised and currently still live in Omaha Nebraska I'm 47 years old and there's a lot of weird stuff in downtown Omaha that nobody's ever told about
I live downtown, would be so cool if you would elaborate.
I’d like to know too. I’ve seen some stuff in the museums growing up. But now I’ve been learning more about this stuff.
Ask away
Tunnels. more curious is the buildings they connect.
Well I know for a fact of French cafe and godfather's Pizza used to be a real bad place to be if you were under the age of 16. And also I worked at spaghetti works in the old market and I know that there's a creepy tunnel under there that I don't necessarily know where it goes. And I know that two houses in Little Italy connect underground
Remarkably, the Brandeis (not Brandels) Building is still standing. Its glory days are long gone. It now houses a DGX, a dying food court, and luxury apartments.
The high school (with what you called the bell tower) was actually built around the original state capitol bldg (now located in Lincoln). I think the tower (no longer there) was part of that.
@@jakermausofficial
A slight correction if I may.
The Second Territorial Capitol (not state capitol) was completed in 1858 on what was called Capitol Hill, located on 20th Street between Dodge and Davenport. It was offered to the city of Omaha for use as a school in November 1869. It was determined to be unsafe and demolished in 1870, never being used as a school. The new Omaha High School building was completed on the same site in 1872. That structure lasted until about 1910. The present structure known as Central High School, started construction about 1900 and was completed about 1912 in 4 phases. Both structures occupied that location at the same time, until the 1872 school building was finally torn down and removed about 1910. This allowed for the final phase of construction and the north wall that runs east-west was completed. It was officially called Central High School in 1915.
The elaborate highschool you are referring to is actually the old capital building. Omaha once was the capital and once they moved it to Lincoln, they turned the capital building into Central Highschool. Now it should be called East since it is in East Omaha near Gene Leahy park ( downtown). The international expedition brought much bourgeoisie money to the area and this is indeed why many were able to finance such elaborate buildings as well as the successful trade brought by the railways. The burlington station is where Durham is now and houses a museum with much information about this stuff.
Nope....Central is built on the location of the state capital but the capital was removed in 1870. The present buiding was a purpose built education building around 1900-1930
Central was built around the old territorial capital before eventually being torn down
The First Territorial Capitol of Nebraska was built on 9th Street between Farnam and Douglas and completed in 1855. The Second Territorial Capitol was completed in 1858 on what was called Capitol Hill, located on 20th Street between Dodge and Davenport. It was offered to the city of Omaha for use as a school in November 1869. It was determined to be unsafe and demolished in 1870. A new Omaha High School building was completed on the same site in 1872. That structure lasted until about 1910. The present structure, known as Central High School, was built in 4 phases starting construction about 1900. It was completed about 1912. Both structures occupied that location at the same time, until the original 1872 school building was torn down and removed about 1910. This allowed for the final phase, the construction of the north wing. This left a very large courtyard in the middle that was eventually put under roof.
Actually the old Burlington passenger depot, is where Channel 7 moved to. The Durham is located in the old Union Pacific passenger depot north of the Burlington.
Good stuff.
A show on “old world” high schools could be interesting as well.
I have a file...
My childhood home was built by one of the banking founders in south Omaha/Stockyards area 💕
Nebraska is a geographically varied state. The sod houses you showed were not from Omaha but rather from further West. You can drive for two hours on a state highway and not see another car. It gets very sparse once past Lincoln. Many of the architects borrowed designs that they saw in Europe. In fact, many were immigrants from Europe. Of course, as progress ensued, more efficient buildings replaced the old Gothic and Renaissance styles. This was common in the United States ... and still is.
I'm sorry, I could only watch a few minutes of this video. I live in Omaha and have done some research on the area. It would appear that the narrator for this video has not done research on the area. For example, he could not tell the story of Dodge Street being excavated to make a more gentle slope toward the Missouri River. That was the reason the church was sitting above the hill of dirt. Too much opinion and not enough research. I did enjoy the pictures.
Exactly
I grew up in a small town, Columbia City IN, the county seat. The earliest photo I find of our magnificent courthouse shows no other buildings in the photo -- simply dirt paths near the courthouse. Very unbelievable.
The Band 311 is pretty cool.
The building at 5:34 is not in Omaha, that is a similar building in Kansas City.
Omaha native here: the church on top of the dirt is an example of grading that occurred in the city. This was done because the original hills were too steep for the streetcars.
The New York Life buildings in Omaha and Kansas City are almost identical, which make me think that the photo you showed at 5:55 is actually in Kansas City due to the view from the street.
St. Margaret Mary's Church. A Father Suneg was pastor there for many a year.
Saint Mary Magdalene Church is the one shown at 19th & Dodge when the streets were being regraded.
Im from Omaha and alot of these buildings that are still here look the same. But some of these buildings are gone. Thanks for this because it definitely is beautiful it always made me wonder how these buildings got here like this too.
Scottish Rite Cathedral was obviously mud flooded. Windows on the left side are at ground level but the ground slopes up so windows on the right are half buried. The ground continues to slope up across the front of the building. Building 101: Step 1. Level the ground. Mud flood was probably around 1725.
originally from Omaha Nebraska
A little known construction company by the name of Kiewit and sons was founded in Omaha.
Nebraska resident. Nice video. Please explain the hypothesis regarding the skepticism of the historical record in this video. I'm not saying I don't believe you aren't onto something, I'm trying to figure out what anyone would have had to gain from lying about the age of buildings or of the city. And if deep pockets isn't the explanation for some of those buildings, then what is? Genuinely curious where you're going with all of that.
If you're genuinely interested, you can check out more from my channel. I also have links to similar content creators. Thanks for watching..
Can you imagine all of the tourists dollars that could be made if all of it existed today?
I’m all for rebuilding the whole thing to be permanent, Omaha would be a grand slam winner!!
9:45 -- the arches at the base of this building were on display in the Gene Leahy Mall for many years.
Your commentary in the video seems to be skeptical of the workers who built these buildings. If you don't believe that hard working Americans and immigrants built them, perhaps you should find some photographs of their construction and read old newspapers that report on the construction. There are plenty of records at the Durham museum in Omaha.
The building at 9:45 is the Bee Building formerly located at the northwest corner of 17th & Farnam. The arches that you speak of, are from the former United States National Bank Building that once stood at the corner of 12th and Farnam Streets.
Downtown was dug out because Omaha was so hilly.
The amount of bricks in omaha is astounding. The streets were all brick from downtown to elmwood park at one point. The bricks are now covered by asphault.
Breweries in Omaha, because there were so many Germans. Quite a racist and antisemitic city for a long time. There was even a lynching there, which one normally associated with the South. Today, Nebraska has a total ban on abortion bill up.
Very sad history. We had lynchings, yes, and even a huge race riot. :( Malcom X was also from Omaha!
Wait what!
On November 10, 1859, Omaha Central High School began as Omaha High School in the Nebraska Territory capitol building. In 1869, after the territorial government was removed from Omaha, the capitol building was donated to the City of Omaha by the Nebraska state government for educational use only.
Two seconds of research would’ve shown you that the school my son graduated from WAS NOT a high school built to look like a government building. It actually was a government building that eventually became a high school. It’s still standing and it’s gorgeous.
You’ve never been been here. All the buildings you’re pretending didn’t exist or didn’t look that way or actually still standing and actually look that way lol What a joke.
Yeh this is a weird video lol
What?
The second part of your comment was nonsensical.
A new Omaha High School structure, was completed in 1872 on the former location of the territorial capitol of Nebraska. The old capitol building was demolished in 1870 and never served as a school. The current Central High School was constructed in 4 sections, starting in 1900. Both structures occupied that location at the same time until about 1910, when the 1872 school building was demolished and hauled away. This allowed for the final section of Central High School to be completed in 1912. That being the north wall that runs east and west. This left a large courtyard in the center, which was eventually filled in with new construction of additional classrooms etc. It was officially named Omaha Central High School in 1915.
That highschool @18:43 is really blowing my mind. Almost feels like a bastion fort with elements of stepped pyramid work and with all the masonic hallmarks. It's really something. Especially for a highschool. But you know, once upon a time schools were places for deep thinking, arts and elevating man to enlightenment. Now they're just indoctrination camps. No point making them so fancy anymore.
It was actually the state capital building before it went to lincoln, and they converted it to a school
@@braindeaddrummer
The old territorial capitol building (not state capitol) was demolished in 1870 and never served as a school. The first Omaha High School, was completed in 1872 on the former location of the territorial capitol of Nebraska. The current Central High School was constructed in 4 sections, starting in 1900. Both structures occupied that location at the same time until about 1910, when the 1872 school building was demolished and hauled away. This allowed for the final section of Central High School to be completed in 1912. That being the north wing that runs east and west. This left a large courtyard in the center, which was eventually filled in with new construction of additional classrooms etc. It was officially named Omaha Central High School in 1915.
That is Brandeis Department store, not Brandels. I worked at their next location in Omaha. My mom worked at the Joslyn Castle in the 1990’s-early 2000’s. My dad went to Central High in the 40’s. Friends went in the 70’s, and I left in ‘74. Dodge Street is still the Main Street there. My dad worked at that First National Bank building. In the ‘60’s, we ate at the Blackstone Hotel’s restaurant.
Oh, you're lucky! I would've loved to have eaten at the Blackstone as it was back in the day. And at the Hotel Fontenelle!
My Omaha upbringing dovetails with yours in many respects. In about 1950 as a 4 year old kid I got separated for a few minutes from my mom in that old Brandeis store and it was an awful, dreadful feeling. In the mid 60's I worked at Brandeis on 72nd & Dodge. I always lived very close to Joslyn Castle and we teenagers hung out on the grounds there many times smoking Pall Malls. My mom went to Central High School in the 30's. I left in '79. My uncle worked at the First National Bank building and my sister's wedding reception was at the Blackstone. That would have been in the late 50's. It's pretty amazing how my Omaha history mirrors yours.
5:08 Is a building still standing
All this construction happened between 1860 and 1920. Their origins and the companies who built them are a matter of city record.
It's funny you say what's the issue with not making everything look beautiful anymore and they say time and money, time and money. Yet the next sentence they're telling us we live in a time of unprecedented wealth! It's sad 😝😏
Recently, I was struck with the thought of if we have another reset in the cards soon...what will the next inheritors receive that WE actually built? I could think of zero examples
They'll probably just inherit our technology. But who knows if even our technology we have nowadays were even made in present times. The technology we have now were probably inherited also
We asked the akashic records about the tartaria buildings. The response was that the Venetians from Venus came to this planet and built the buildings for a time, and then they were called back home.
Hindu temple in Omaha, Nebraska. That should raise some eyebrows. Great video.
Love the post office.
Amazing what you can build selling 1 cent stamps.
That's crazy huh? Wow incredible indeed!
What's interesting to me is that I have several postmasters in my family dating back to the 1800s. Two different post offices were built by my relatives but neither post office is even remotely close to how fancy those large post office buildings are that we see all over the country. They're what you would expect at that time. Simple, practical, well built wooden structures. Yet they were supposedly contemporary to the large stone post offices. So I can't help but wonder, why didn't my relatives build fancy post offices too? Maybe because the fancy ones were actually already built long before my relatives started building their modest post offices.
The temple off 132nd and center?
@@SpAzZzZz_ i wish I knew about that when I visited my grandmother a month or so ago. She lives in that area. I would have loved to see it in person.
@@SpAzZzZz_ Yes. It was originally The Drawbridge, a Camelot- themed restaurant, then a Hollywood theme restaurant, then a Spaghetti Works, then the temple.
Amazing photos. If these buildings are from a prior civilization, I would like to know what they used them for. Certainly not a department store or post office.
Most likely for parts for the railways and Burlington station.
The buildings are not from a prior civilization. Many buildings in this video still exist and in use. They are all fully documented.
Wow!
so many statues of angels on top of the buildings with wings and also still digging out the mud from so many buildings after the flood
What flood? The images are of the street being lowered to lessen the severity of the grade. This made it easier for horse and buggy, horse drawn wagons full of goods and the street cars to climb and descend. Where is a flood mentioned in the video?
That "high school" used to be the State Capital building back in the day before the Capital moved to Lincoln. Now it is Central High School.
Nope....the capital building was torn down in 1870. The structure we see today is a purpose built high school erected about 1900-1930.
20th & Dodge was once the location of the territorial capitol of Nebraska before statehood in 1867. The current Central High School building itself, was built much later in 4 phases starting in 1900 and finishing in 1912.
The high school was the old capital building which is now a school
The south high school goes down many levels.
I thought this was going to be a video exploration of old buildings in Omaha but I’m very confused on what point is trying to be made here? You’re arguments are all “oh this looks weird, what’s up with that?” We have basements everywhere here for one. Warehousing was huge due to the fact the transcontinental railroad went straight through the city so there was an immense district called jobbers canyon with large warehouses. They were all torn down to make way for Conagras campus save for one on 9th and Dodge. Omaha was and is a very wealthy city and could build the same types of buildings during the early years, using skilled immigrant craftsmen from all over Europe, that any other major city could. During the 20th century, there was a push for the “new” so many were torn down and replaced with less impressive modern structures but many that you showed are still standing. The grand high school you mentioned was originally built as the state capitol when Omaha and Lincoln were duking it out to be the capitol. When Omaha lost, they converted it into a high school and it still is one today. The Hindu temple is a converted Italian restaurant that was completed in 2004, it is down the street from my house and very beautiful. We replaced St. Louis as the gateway to the west as the railroad took over and prospered ever since by diversifying the industries here and never getting locked in through annexation of smaller towns so when people moved to suburbs, they were just moving from one part of Omaha to another so tax revenues increased rather than evaporating. You’re just turning something into a conspiracy for views. Real cool
Not for views...you've got that backwards. I've got many videos depicting the same story. I appreciate your local input and appreciate you watching though..
Who would have thought the American mid-west, with it's flat 'bread basket', would have so many old world structures. I guess a guy shouldn't be surprised. Awesome stuff! Cheers!
My hometown!!
those buildings look much older than they say -also the statue is similar to a statue of an ancient statue of the wicked one
What building do you need a date on? I have all that. The narrator does not offer a build date for a majority if any of the structures he shows photos of. How did you come to the conclusion the buildings are misdated? No dates were given. Please give me the time stamp of the video that shows me to be in error.
please just study architecture. people have been building massive structures forever. Skilled architects existed and do exist. This is normal stuff.
Should I go for a masters or would an undergraduate degree suffice...
@@oldworldex🤣
I just saw this video. One particular image stood out to me. It was what looked like a postcard and the caption above read, 'the (New) Masonic Temple'.. As opposed to the old one? Hm. There is a certain group of People that introduced 'booze' (spirits) to society. I believe that the breweries made a great cover-up for old world structures that were "founded". I could be wrong on this, but I don't think that I am; anyway, Omaha was most likely one of the cities in Nebraska where the "orphan trains" brought thousands of children. While at it; why was there so very little academic research into the whole "orphan train" happenings? In doing my own research I found a lot of quite interesting details that were shared by some of the aged 'orphan train" riders. One of those details was that the children were basically brainwashed into leaving any part of their past behind. Only "orphans" under 14 were allowed. Additionally they were not allowed to bring any personal items along with them. Can you imagine? They were discouraged not to have any link to their past and to leave it behind. The 'Children's Aid Society' was formed to place children. This was a private agency with private clients and so the public had no real knowledge of what was being done.
(was that the real reason?) * look up a paper on the research of Dr. Sandra Cook-Wong
This was really cool. I have lived in Nebraska most of my life and never realized how European some of the building look.
Pearl Church is still there and looks the same. I grew up on 24th and Hartman in North Omaha
Council bluffs is way older
Hey bud can you do a video on the "Anamosa state penitentiary"
Look it up you'll see why, insane stone work. It takes up city block and has massive towers.
I'll check it out.
lmao the highschool was a federal building. It was the state capital. It was reused as a highschool.
20th & Dodge was once the location of the territorial capitol of Nebraska (not state capitol) before statehood in 1867. The current Central High School building itself, was built much later in 4 phases starting in 1900 and finishing in 1912.
The big high school on Dodge st. was once the state capital building.
Until Lincoln took it away from there.
It's OK we took the state fair from Lincoln and gave it to Grand Island.
20th & Dodge was once the location of the territorial capitol of Nebraska (not state capitol) before statehood in 1867. The current Central High School building itself, was built as a school in 4 phases starting in 1900 and finishing in 1912.
I hope the inheritors are aware that the structures they inhabit, could be activated at any moment.
Problem solved.
You should look into the Nebraska state capitol building!
The phallic symbol of the Midwest!
@@LisaRichards_123Hey now, it's a beautiful capitol! If slightly phallic. LOL
Which one? There were 2 before the one that exists now.
Hey not sure if you read old
Comments but!! Look up the definition of BITUMEN. AND ITS LORE in trinidad.
The state capitals 420 ft tall with a seed sower made of bronze if you look at the pictures from the first one it looks like they were digging out the railroad running up to it I've got pictures of that too
They likely used carts on tracks to aid in construction. It was common in the era before motorized vehicles.
@@Fauntleroy. total regurgitating lie wake up
None of the photos are of Lincoln. Exclusively Omaha locations are being shown.
Time stamp 5:45, shows a photo of Saint Mary Magdalene Church. The tracks in the foreground were laid in the early part of 1920. The photo was taken June 1920. They ran side dump cars up the hill and loaded them with a steam shovel. The dirt was used to cover the mainline Union Pacific wood trestle built 1904-1908, (also known as the Lane Cutoff). It took years beyond it's completion in 1908, to completely bury the trestle with the downtown dirt.
The new mainline went from 36th street west, over the Papio creek at 84rth street between Grover and F streets. This trestle allowed UP to bypass the original Trans-Continental route through Bellevue, Papillion and Millard that it had been using. At 164th street just south of Pacific, it reunited with the TransCon coming out of Millard.
I live in Omaha. Many of the building shown still stand. Like many cities, there were a few wealthy families who built things and had their names on streets and buildings.
Nebraska is still a lot of land with a couple majors cities.
Central High School was originally built to be the state’s Capital building, but it turned out that Lincoln had a higher population so the capital of the state was placed there.
Not sure what conspiracy you are alluding to. My family has been here for many generations. It’s a great place to live.
Thanks for watching and adding to the story. Check out my other videos if you want the gist of the conspiracy..
And they just figured out the population issue after they built it? 😂 the size of, and number of, those grand buildings don’t make sense considering the population at the time. Something doesn’t add up 🤷♀️
@@melaniewilliams2972 there was a great reset in the past too i believe, i feel loads of people were taken out for their technology, the anime one piece talks about this, tell me ur thoughts melanie, do u agree?
@@melaniewilliams2972That's silly. The buildings were created to house the people and businesses migrating to the area. Omaha became a major hub for people moving west because, along with Kansas City, it was about the furthest west you could go and still live in civilization. So there was lots of money to be made as the westward migration continued. And that drew in more and more people and businesses.
Great video. Born and raised in Omaha. Have always questioned the narrative we are given about Omaha. If we could build these so easily 150 years ago then why can’t we do it today. The addition to central high school took a couple years and they had bring stone from Indiana quarry to match. The addition cost 20 million. The numbers don’t make sense in my opinion.
Why do you assume that we couldn't build these structure today? Buildings like FNBO Tower or the UP Headquarters are infinitely more complex than anything you see here.
@Fauntleroy. They founded Omaha high school now Omaha central high school in 1859. The architect John Latenser Sr. Born 1858 died 1936 is given credit for several historic Omaha buildings. Do the math ????
@@michaelkeller6087
The old (2nd) territorial capitol building, was demolished in 1870 and never served as a school. The first Omaha High School, was completed in 1872 on the former location of the territorial capitol of Nebraska. The current Central High School was constructed in 4 sections, starting in 1900. Both structures occupied that location at the same time until about 1910, when the 1872 structure was demolished and hauled away. This allowed for the final section of Central High School to be completed in 1912. That being the north wall that runs east and west. This left a large courtyard in the center, which was eventually filled in with new construction of additional classrooms etc. It was officially named Omaha Central High School in 1915.
The capital used to be in Omaha, but the city was so corrupt, they had to move it to Lincoln.
You are really ignorant to question these buildings. Immigrants with old world skills came from many countries and settled in Omaha and worked to build these buildings.😮 Architects were hired from the east coast to design. The city leaders wanted to attract people to live there. I am familiar with some of these buildings. Some buildings burned down. My husband's grandparents were city leaders and led some of these projects jointly with others. There is no contradiction. The bottom of the buildings were flooded by the MO river.
lol.
15:46 spooky building.
GREAT images! Thank you!
There are some great smoking gun images of St. Mary Magdalene Church getting regraded in 1920. You show a couple here but there are much better ones circulating around.
Sometimes buildings need refurbishment. 🤷♂
Smoking gun of what kind? Please elaborate.
There were large areas of neighborhoods in this city that realtors refused to sell to Jews and blacks in various covenants made. My grandparents could only rent in certain areas there. They didn’t want you around, even if you were dead, with them making the Jewish cemetery. Be far from there populated parts of the city where Jews lived. Out of sight, out of mind. I have no idea where they allowed black people to be buried there. I left when I turned 18.
It's sad but true. We're still one of the most segregated cities in America. My grandparents were white, but because they were "displaced persons" after WWII, they got redlined into certain neighborhoods and some companies wouldn't hire them.
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If you want to do history on a city why don't you do your research first before giving your own narrative on the history of a building. When some of those pictures were probably just an artist rendition. Omaha is deep in history it is great to learn before speaking on a place before you talk about a city.
Thank you for the nice presentation.
Very shareable.
Thank you! Much appreciated...
..is this satire
The destruction of all the "world fair" architecture is almost as sad as all the times they wiped the surface of Earth clean of humans only to repopulate it with their new version.
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@@Dommommy Feels so good
@@scottdavis7217 🎵Now, I don't know you, you don't know me. But I can show you where is the beat. And you can do as you feel, as long as you move. Two perfect strangers sharing a groove💜🎶
@@Dommommy Suckers step up and want to cause friction
But violence is for those who can't handle diction
Competition is waning, circumnavigate the draining
Complaining about those who are steady maintaining the jam
@@scottdavis7217
Today, the longest day
Hearing repeating things you'd say
Confusing use of time
Can you hear the void I describe
What could I say vacancy sounds like
Confusing use of time
i like the brewery with the antiqutech on top. how in hell there a population base for this.....
Because people kept moving here for a host of reasons. The town's population blew up in a short time, as happens with all boom towns.
Omaha had a very large stock yard, and the Union Pacific railroad, back in those days. It was a booming and prosperous town. There wasn't much to the west as far as civilization. The city is on a large river so had barge traffic too. The sod houses you saw on google were much further west, out in the prairies. And those people weren't poor, they were farmers. Sod is actually a very efficient building material with great insulating properties. And there simply wasn't any other building materials on the prairies, back then. The trees there now were all planted long ago by the settlers. It was endless miles of flat land covered in prairie grass.
About 30 years ago Omaha had a big push to tear down Jobber's Canyon District, where a lot of those pictures were taken. Most all the old architecture is gone. Now it's a small city full of Walmarts and strip malls, fast food joints, and Super 8 motels. The Old Market District is still there... it is close to downtown and Jobber's Canyon was just a few blocks southeast of there. I have explored some of the catacombs under The Old Market, creepy place, over 100 years old. Wish Jobber's Canyon was still there, the buildings were very old and very interesting. Omaha was also the Capital of Nebraska, strange story, some politicians basically stole all the legal papers and moved them to Lincoln, the current Capital, and about 50 miles west. Nowadays Omaha in a fairly unremarkable and boring place. I'm nearing retirement age, and can't wait to move far away from here. Just my two cents.
It may be boring and unremarkable but it still has the CWS, and we're getting trolleys again, "oh, boy". And best part, it's rather safe from hurricanes, fires, major heat waves (it gets hot but not that hot). I hate it too. lol My wife was born and raised here.
well someone who knows their history. hats off. but as someone who has lived also in the "exciting" cities of New York, San Francisco, and Seattle, boring is now a very good thing.
nice pics. commentary is vapid.
09:43 - the Bee Buildiing (serving a newspaper called the "Omaha Bee") was a seven-story, red-granite structure that took just a year to build 1887-1888 (demolished in the 1960s). The official narrative tells us that, a year later, the paper had a circulation of ... less than 19,000. In a way that does fit with the change in population between 1880 (under 31,000) and 1890 (140,000), but it is hard to imagine how much money a newspaper appearing in 19,000 copies is going to make. The architect is apparently Solon Beman, who also built in Michigan and Illinois (being Chicago-based). It is claimed that there was a 500,000-dollar outlay on the building. Interesting if those factors can be made to add up or not...
Buildings didn't take as long to put up because they didn't need electrical, and phone lines, and HVAC, and sometimes not even much plumbing. They also had much weaker codes to follow than we do now. So what is the mystery?
@@Fauntleroy. All of what you write is logical and doubtless true, but I was also applying truth and logic. I do not know if the presenters of these "Old World" type videos do the same, and a year ago I would not have imagined myself taking time to post in relation to such bizarre-looking ideas. But here we are. The first issue is that we see from the series that EVERY American (US and Canadian) town and city seems to have been having the same building spree at (what we are told was) the same time. Second issue - when I first came to this idea, they were noting the big story that there were Beaux Arts buildings all over the world at the same (apparent) time. I beg to differ a little. This summer, I again travelled through Europe, and focused on several cities in 5 countries, looking at the building. This included my English home town of less than 100,000 people. Basically, I found no mismatch between style and apparent/official date or between size of building and size of city. Admittedly, the cathedrals in both Gdańsk and Lincoln are vast, but we (apparently) know about cathedral-building so I believe they might be excused. The presence of a number of giant buildings (not just one) in what were US localities smaller than my home town looks anomalous, and all the more so if a population of say, 50,000 then was often (not always, but often) including 6 or more kids per family. Even in Victorian times, kids were not expert builders. This is of course the third core issue: sure the buildings were primitive technologically, as you say, but they were anything but primitive-looking in design and ornamentation. And as you will see from these types of film, the core claim, and the simplest and most apparent one, is that some stunning buildings went up back then, suggesting time and money and huge resources, attention to detail and craftsmanship. In (nearly) every case, the buildings replacing the ones we see were a ludicrously pale shadow-imitation of what had been before. OK, so "we grew to hate Victorian excess and wanted clean lines, shiny glass and so on" - well of course we have actually been told that, and I first heard it as a kid in the 60s. But it does look and sound pretty hollow, and the Chicago Federal Building illustrates as well as many of these examples. The replacement was a glass-and-concrete shoebox stood on its end. As they nearly all are. Most unbiased observers would suggest the predecessor was a greater artistic achievement by a factor of 1000. Overall, these observations and ideas give myself as a scientist a case to answer. Meanwhile, story after story of the 2020s just show that mainstream media, politics and indeed science are not free or unbiased (very tragically), and for whatever reasons are not open-minded (do have edifices of belief they prefer not to have disturbed), and do dismiss evidence that fails to fit. This was true with COVID and the response at all stages, is true with the UAPs, and is true with, say, Gobekli Tepe. 9/11 could surely be added (as the number-1 anomalous event in my aware lifetime). Now we have Maui fires that also look (a bit similarly) suspect, and why do we never hear a word (until yesterday in fact) of what harm was done by the destruction of that Ukrainian dam? Obviously, the MSM is not telling us about things we want to hear about, which it is LOGICAL to hear about! Unfortunately, such ideas taken big-picture do NOT preclude some kind of resets, or indeed the most extreme/shocking version (which science HAS hypothesised about) that we are in a simulation. Some time ago, a mainstream publication DID jokingly ask if Trump and Brexit meant that the "game players" were getting really bored now and throwing in chaotic events. But since then we have had COVID, and Putin launching a war that is as illogical as it is awful. As a Christian Born Again on 28-2-21, I anyway discern that the D*vil's works do NOT add up, they are indeed chaotic, and when you dig further using science or other noble means you always find rubbish, worthlessness as well as pain and suffering (the History Channel presentation of events at Skinwalker Ranch spring right to mond here, BTW, and we now know that AATIP was a sub-part of government research into Skinwalker Ranch-type phenomena). Many things today are indeed evil, and we seem to be surrounded by them, and the New Testament offers us the truth of 1 John 5:19. I believe the NT, and it is there in black and white, from someone who loved Jesus as I do. So we do indeed need to question policies, stories and even our reality. For me (as a trained scientist) Paul, James, John and of course Jesus are now (a further) reality, as is the Holy Spirit very active in our daily lives, and seeking to supply us with wisdom and discernment about our world, whose default state is nevertheless in opposition to the Spirit ... as a core tenet of The Bible...
It's almost like we wanted to make their city look like the east cost cities their families came from.
Also he says the population was too low to be capable of such construction. I guess he's never heard of migrant labor. The Gilded Age saw the rise of powerful industrialists with deep pockets and and an influx of immigrants that could be easily exploited for cheap labor.
To this day it's not unusual to have construction sites with workers from out of state or from Mexico. Consider the controversy surrounding the 2022 World Cup in regards to the conditions of the countless migrant workers. Likewise migrant make up the majority of the population of the United Arab Emirates and compose the majority of the workforce. Similar ratio in the aforementioned Qatar.
The population of Omaha in 1880, was 30,518. This was the decade when our most substantial buildings were erected. Plenty enough people to get things done.
The picture of the hotel with multiple floors, it looks like there are AC units in some of the windows.
I live in omaha. Many buildings still exist.
What, exactly is your point?
A lot of "questions" you ask indicate you don't believe these buildings could exist based on wether or not the picture/drawing/painting showed horse/buggies or autos in the image. Its odd questioning, as many of these buildings you showed, still exist today, and the time periods they were build are accurate. Omaha had and has many varied architecture types not found in other cities of similar size in history or modern times.
Not that they didn't exist. Just that the timeline is wrong.
One question 🤔.....WHO IS THE AMERICAN, by BLOOD 🤷🏿♂️
Do yourself a suggestion and look up Union Pacific Railroad and the fact that they were given 13 miles of land on each side of every track they laid. I live here and it all makes sense. The classical architecture, the sizes of the warehouses, the new money on top of old money. Warren Buffett, the richest man in the world for much of his life, lives here. It allllllll makes sense.
This is true, as my Family business, Haarmann Bros. pickle and vinegar (later Haarmann pickle and Vinegar) bought land from them in 1906 in hopes of building a new plant. But the panic of 1907 threw a "pickle" in their plans and they sold it back to them in 1908.
I was actually just thinking that the RR alone had alot to do with the architecture of the buildings in the city. All the materials and industry it brought over to the Midwest along with a ton of skilled tradesmen looking for work and cash flow...
I feel like you're trying to make a point but I'll be damned if I can tell what it is.
Many of them building are still up and what you are saying make sense. Them are basement and I always said the building are much older. This is amazing I remember them brick paved street as a kid. Thanks for the video.
Thanks for sharing
I'm from Omaha originally, and I'm in my 60s. The Bee building was the home of the Omaha Bee newspaper. My family arrived in Omaha 1869. I have been in many of these buildings and have seen family photographs and photographs in the Bostick Frohardt photography collection. The buildings really were new with 20 years of when these postcards photos were taken. Central High School is still in use as a public high school. Brandeis Department store was originally 8 stories and 2 additional stories were added later. I was married in the "New" Courthouse in1978. My grandfather was a boiler engineer at the Blackstone Hotel. My father was an usher in Astro Theater in the 1940s, when it was the Paramount theater. You have to remember that when most of the older ornate buildings were built, Omaha was the largest city between Chicago and Denver, and Denver at that time was about the same size as Denver. The World's Fair buildings were made of horsehair and plaster on wood frames, and a few of the buildings were moved and repurposed after the fair, but because of the materials used, deteriorated quickly. Omaha had a lot of money pouring into it, not just due to having at that time the world's largest stockyards, but also being home to the Union Pacific Railroad and several other prominent industries during the 1880 to 1930 time period. Master builders immigrated to the city to work in the Union Pacific shops, including several master carpenters in my own family. For a while there was a Ford manufacturing plant in Omaha. There was a very large lead smelter, and an iron smelter and forging company. People west of Omaha lived in sod houses because of a shortage of other materials to build with; there were no trees except for cottonwoods along the banks of a few larger creeks. The sod houses were meant to be temporary and not necessarily due to poverty. Families lived in them until lumber could be obtained, not an easy thing to get before the secondary rail lines were built. By 1900 most soddies had been replaced by frame houses.
I see I have typos in my reply. Denver was about the same size as Omaha when the ornate buildings were built between 1880 and 1900. One other thing about the sod houses being temporary - they were often used by homesteaders during the 5 years it took to "prove" their homestead claim and have title to the land. It didn't make sense to invest a lot of money in a house until you owned the land it was built on.
great show as always.. and sharing to the #BeBest platform.. can i ask a favor, please lower the music.. my mind keeps hearing it instead of you... TY
Thanks I appreciate the feedback. I've made efforts to do that in my more recent uploads. What's the #BeBest platform?
My brother is a musicologist, and at 10:04 you showed an OLD WORLD Opera house, and at 15:00 a beautiful Auditorium which triggered a thought.
Consequently, we had a conversation which suggest the Narrative of Classical (European) music could have had its roots in Old World America, and NOT exclusively in Europe? For instance, the enormous quantity compositions attributed to Mozart, amoungst other famous composers, was absolutly impossible for one man to have composed in his short lifetime, and I have an article which discusses this anomaly.
Hence, we may have another Psuedo-narrative by the Old Opera Houses/Conservatories/Theaters/Concert Halls/Auditoriums, etc. in the USA being destroyed while the old one's in Europe being preserved to support the NEW Historical Narrative of Europe being the OLD WORLD, and America being the NEW WORLD due to the Re Set at the end of the 19 th century?
I think you're on to something. The composers narrative needs investigation. Beethoven was deaf? Hmmm...
@@oldworldex Paradox is the governing principle. Simply go 180 degrees in the opposite of the official narrative and your good to go.
It’s funny I’ve thought about building the and now,it never occurred to me to ask y things were built like this back then but y we don’t build like that now. Crazy huh
Because labor costs are so much more expensive now by comparison. Kids in Omaha are getting 16-18 bucks an hour working at McDonald's. There were fewer building codes back in the 1880s, no OSHA regulations at all and Omaha didn't get electricity until 1883. So, all structures prior to that, didn't have that expense added to the final cost of the build. Same is true with indoor plumbing being installed. Another reason, is that these old structures were not heat/energy efficient at all by comparison to current structures and the technology to put them on a plain with todays new builds, didn't exist. Back in those times, you got one grade of window and it was just for looking out of. Today you have a variety of windows with a spectrum of "R factor" efficiency ratings to chose from.
Great historical photos of Omaha! However, Ignore the nonsense narrative provided. Total nonsense, lol
Also the Trans Mississippi Buildings were all wooden with plaster of paris facias. They would literally MELT after long exposure to rain. Common knowledge if you did a little research.
riiiight.
I've researched the numbers of students at that high school and when it open there were only twelve
The building you see here was originally the territorial capitol, only becoming a school many years later. If an earlier version of the school already existed at that earlier time, then it was probably a single room, hence the low number.
@@Fauntleroy. what ever are you government...
@@f.t.p.b.t.p. seriously??🤣🤣
The new Omaha High School building was completed in the spring of 1872 at 20th & Dodge. The new building featured 18 rooms and held all grades. High school enrollment totaled 47. In 1873 the High school enrollment grew to 60.
@@Fauntleroy.
The very first territorial capitol of Nebraska was converted into a school in 1859. It was located at 9th Street between Douglas and Farman. He might be referring to that school.
I can't believe most of those beautiful buildings have been destroyed. All to try to hide the fact that there were cities here in America since the before Christ days. How can anyone believe that the only place in the world , of all 7 continents , that had no cities was America? This is such great stuff, a real awakening and it's awesome that there are some people who still care.
tptb don't want anyone to believe there was the great flood of Noah. Goodness,we might have another Great Awakening!
I've been awake in so many other areas but now my eyes have just been opened in the realization of these Omaha pictures. So beautiful 😥
That’s just plain hogwash
No, these buildings were mostly torn down to make way for modern office complexes and parking lots. Lots and lots of parking lots... The gorgeous Hotel Fontenelle (seriously, look it up) is now a parking lot. The beautiful Woolworth's Building is now a modern courthouse. The old Medical Arts building is now a skyscraper. The Natelman's and Kilpatrick's department stores are now twin office buildings. The old town hall and post office, with their gorgeous clock towers, were demolished to make way for ANOTHER skyscraper. Omaha did not value its architectural history, and it would've kept going on like that, except people in the 70s and 80s started putting their feet down. Thankfully they were able to save the Omaha Building, the Burlington Building, the old First National Building, the Trio, Burlington Station, Joslyn Castle, the Astro Theater, and a host of other gorgeous examples of 19th through mid-20th century architecture. I mean really, if there was this big conspiracy to hide the past, then why did so many of our treasures survive?
Nobody is hiding anything from you. Omaha is not older than Christ. Omaha did not exist before Christ days. I came to Omaha in 1961. I've seen the majority of these buildings myself being in full use at the time. A good number of these structures shown in the video, still survive today. Omaha wasn't founded until July 4, 1854. It's not that old of a city. The oldest photos I have in my collection, show a truly wilderness pioneer town of wooden buildings and only a very few brick structures by comparison. 30 years later in the 1880, Omaha really started to take off.
The "civil war" was misnamed, it was closer to "the war on civilization"
Isn't Lady Liberty based off of Persephone? And obviously Columbia plays here as well so it checks that a statue like that would be up there and be old world. They didn't just hijack the architecture after all.
Everyone knows America where the ancient biblical lands...hehe
Just by comparing the timelines of all the midwest and western cities , their population and then add up how many structures they say were build in the late 1800s to early 1900s you can see that it would have been impossible. There is no way that all the brick and stone structures were built basically simultaneously . Who were the builders and craftsmen and who made all the bricks and cut the stone. And we are talking narratives stating whole cities being built out all at the same time 😮all with very few people there. And then add in the rest of the country where they are supposedly building grandiose structures and mansions in mass as well…. It cant really have happened that way.
Are our historical timelines wrong and are we being mislead of an event that wiped these buildings?
Lots and lots of people were migrating to the few cities out west, because the frontier was big business. Building supplies were sent by ship and then later by train. I'm sure it was risky and also extremely costly, but there was money to be made because so many people wanted to go west and they needed accommodations and supplies. The government took the census back then just as they do today and you can track the population growth over time. There were several booms and also several busts. I think we can succumb to survivorship bias when speaking of this, because we tend to only look at or speak about the towns that survived and became cities. Many more disappeared back into the prairie. There's really no reason to doubt the historical narrative.
@@Electrodexify
There are quite a few buildings in this video that are still being used. I would know. I've driven by and/or been inside them.
Fantastic video and breathtaking pictures, thank you very much for sharing this video. In my opinion this video shows once more that the the dominant historiography is the history of rulers (Marx), although i`m not a fan of all his publications. Well, all buildings and objects were able to focus the magnetic field of our earth (round about 8 Hertz vacilation) and pull it out of the soil with masery/bricklaying (the height is mainly responsible for the tension, the strength of the wall is mainly responsible for the magnetizing force = stream/electricity, the demand/power was available for the humans
Greetings from Augsburg/Bavaria
The thing that gets me is the population and the building narratives just don’t jive.
Another excellent video, thank you for all your hard work.
How so? The west was a huge and mostly empty place, so people tended to congregate where other people were. Hence you get a handful of large, modern cities, surrounded mostly by wilderness. Omaha and Kansas City were basically the last modern cities before you headed further into the frontier. So a lot of people moved there, either as part of the mass migration westward, or to offer goods and services to those who WERE traveling further west. There was a lot of money to be made, so cities grew very quickly.
What building narratives have been puzzling you? Where do you get your building narratives from?
Hey buddy. Love your work
Thank you so much 😀