Ralston's early history reads like a movie — 'Twister' or 'Music Man'
Three years after the 1913 tornado destroyed much of the new village, a flim-flam film man stirred up visions of Ralston becoming the next Hollywood.
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Apartment living has been an Omaha housing option since 1891
The city's first apartment building was the Van Dorn, later renamed the Mengedoht Apartments, at 22nd and Leavenworth Streets. A quarter-century later and across Leavenworth was built the Drake Court.
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Omaha's Black police officers have walked the thin blue line with pride
The city hired its first Black policeman in 1874 and kept those who followed mostly segregated to North Omaha duty until the 1960s.
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Omaha's 'world's fair' of 1898 sprouted from fields, built of wood and plaster
The Trans-Mississippi Exposition ran from June to October 1898 on land southwest of 16th Street and Ames Avenue in the north part of the then-city. More than 2.6 million visitors
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Shaking off the cobwebs on ghost stories from Omaha's past
One of the tales is set in the area between South Omaha's Laurel Hill Cemetery and north Bellevue from pioneer days, the other in the western hills of old Omaha
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