1934 Snippets of life, people, street scenes and pets Omaha and rural Nebraska
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- Опубліковано 18 лют 2021
- 1934 Snippets of life, people, street scenes and pets Omaha and rural Nebraska
16 min 16 secs, 16mm 2k digital scan
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I live on Harney, just one street south of Farnam, and enjoyed seeing what that stretch of town used to look like. The Kountze church is still there. I hear its bell often. Thank you for posting. I've watched this so many times I've lost count.
Oh wow! Impressive. I really enjoyed this video it let me take a look back, way back to 1934. Rural areas like that are something else to see. Personally I am a city folk all my life 60 something years now. My grandfather and grandmother lived like that. Beautiful scenery. Thanks for sharing. ❤
Very cool!!!
I love the dog and the cats the best.. And the horses, I guess, because our animals never change when everything else around us does.. Beautiful, just beautiful.. Thank you for sharing..
Thank you. I have a charming cat/dog film from 1938 coming soon, stay tuned!
This was terrific, it probably made my day watching this
My great-grandfather Melvin Cline was born in Edgar, Nebraska in 1917. His parents Harvey and Ada married the year before and tended to the original log homestead and farm Ada’s father built upon migrating from Missouri. Ada’s father also owned a general store. By the time the ‘30s came along with the Dust Bowl and Depression, they picked up and made the journey to California, playing music along the way at rest stops and restaurants for tip money; Mel played guitar and Ada played piano. It is such a rare and special occasion for me to be able to watch this footage from where I came from once. The first men around the ladder actually resemble Mel and his friend Truman but it would be a stellar coincidence if it were actually them. Familiar scenes in family photos!
Oh, wonderful! I'm an Omaha native and was wondering the whole time where some of these scenes were filmed. I'm so grateful to the commenters here who were able to solve those mysteries. Thank you for sharing this fantastic footage.
The mailbox falling got me
Just got some new information regarding the 4:15 - 4:25 mark of the video. The structure that is being built was the WOW Radio Farm at 56th and Kansas Avenue in Omaha. Much like our "unusual rural building" it served as a radio transmitter building and operator's living quarters. This was for Omaha radio station WOW, which was known as WOAW from 1923 - 1926. By 1926, it was known as WOW. This structure is still standing today. Thanks to Bill Jones for identifying this structure on an Omaha History page that I shared this video on. Looks like our guy Walter Myers was checking out the competition!
Omaha resident here. The "Unusual rural building" at the 12:50 mark certainly captured my attention. Thanks to Mike Thomas's comment in Episode 524 on your page, I was off to the races on researching everything I could about this video, as well as Episodes 524 and 526 Using sources, such as the Omaha World Herald Archives, "History of Omaha Radio," by Carl Mann, Omaha City Directories from the 1930's, and our good friend Google, Here is what I have dug up, and what I believe to be true. I welcome any corrections or disputes.
The "Unusual rural building" at the 12:50 mark served as the transmitter building for Omaha radio station WAAW (Nebraska's first commercial radio station) from 1931 - 1948 (By 1939 the call letters had changed to KOWH). One clue to this is the big mailbox that that the woman is battling with at 3:41. Notice the letters on the mailbox (WAAW) The transmitter building also had living quarters for the Chief Engineer and his family. I believe that the young couple that we keep seeing throughout this video, as well as Episodes 524 and 526 is the Chief Operator, Walter F Myers and his wife Erna G Myers. According to The Omaha World Herald, Walter started working for WAAW in 1924, when he was 17 years old. I'm not sure what year he became Chief Engineer, but he certainly was in the mid-1930's and would be until 1939 when he took a job at WJJD in Chicago. At any rate, this would put him at about age 27 in this video.
The house address at the 12:23 mark, I believe to be 1451 S. 15th St. Omaha. According to city directories, this was the residence of Walter Myers' father Frank J Myers in the 1930's.
At the 15:14 mark when you see a plane flying, you'll notice a radio tower in the shot. That was one of WAAW's two towers. They had a double tower configuration, with a horizontal antenna running between the two, and a vertical transmission line running down from the center into a small building which sat between the two towers. If you pause the video at around the 15:17 mark, you can just barely see that horizontal antenna.
As Mike Thomas mentioned in his comment on Episode 524, yes this former WAAW transmitter building is still standing today at the intersection of 60th and Girard Streets in Omaha, NE. In 1934, this would have been a rural area. More specifically the area was once known as DeBolt But today, it's very much within Omaha city limits. I can also confirm that 1451 S. 15th St. is still standing today, and appears to be an active residence.
Corey, thank you. Some amazing details, well done.
Thank you for sharing these incredible time capsules!
@@coreystroud3684 You're most welcome. Thank you for enlightening everyone with your remarkable sleuthing skills. Cheers!
Yes! 6052 Country Club Rd. Still a beautiful area. Thank you for sharing these details!
The airplane at 15:10 is a United Air Lines Boeing 247.
Around the 7:48 or so mark, that looks like the house on the west side of the road you pass if you're heading south of Bellevue that always has the hayrack full of pumpkins for sale in the fall.
My grandparents moved from Shelbyville, Missouri townships to Omaha life in 1942. And I was born in Omaha in 1953, and my grandparents raised me from being just 4 days old.
At 10:00 in, this girl is a beautiful woman, I wish I knew who she was, I would like to check her life out, like who, where, why type of research.
I agree, I hope that someone, somewhere will see this film among others, and find a relative or family friend. I truly enjoy sharing these lost little reels. There are so many wonderful scenes, homes and faces.
@@ReelLifeCanada This family seems to be pretty well off to have a moving camera back in 1934, I remember in the '50s thru the '60s how costly it was just to get a roll of film developed and the time it took. We were poor and lived off gramps S.S. and odd jobs. I started working in gas stations at 12 yrs. old.
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