[NEGirl08]

Hello.

I'm doing a project for my class about Nebraska in the 60's and was wondering if you wouldn't mind me interviewing you.

Please feel free to contact me at your earliest convenience at [EMAIL="jsamuels@huskers.unl.edu"]jsamuels@huskers.unl.edu[/EMAIL]

Thanks

[mike dundon]

yep was a benson bunny and was to grad in '65 but thrw a penny cross the room and well it did not go well from there, had to sit nex to my sis in homeroom the next year cause th expelled me and i grad jan '66, went to calf with mark vanstrom - spell? and spend a few months being a surfer would probable still b there except moma sent me my induction into the army, after nam and a bout with drugs, now 29 years sober, i came back to where my dad graduated and was then running the OT dept, and after a few wifes or more am still in columbia mo but miss the old place, ther was the 2 brother what wat were their names -one played basketball and the some of the othe guys, hell i cant remember names, then there was ?? gosh, and across the street neighbor randy dodge, skinny kid we hung together, we lived on what the call "pill hill" 55 and blondo, actuall one block n on 55th, say wherre did everybody go?? mike dundon, [email]redpage5217@yahoo.com[/email]....oh forgot... if you want to contact me as i probably wont see this site again hit my email

[HandBanana]

Did anyone ever go into Hotel Fontenelle?
That place fascinates me.

[smithy77]

Went there several times in the 60's for CYO conventions and dinnners and such. Beautiful place.

[HandBanana]

Stupid that its a (nother) parking lot now

[laserdisque]

It's a shame so many of our great buildings were torn down. The old post office is another one that breaks my heart.

[HandBanana]

This is a great piece on the Fontenelle

The Hotel Fontenelle

And it references the sinister demolition of the post office as well.

[Mustang33]

I was also in Omaha in the seventies. Times were very turbulent in that era. Many riots around various parts of the inner city as well as the park across from UNO. However, the time is better remembered for the wonderful people and positive attitude of the people of Omaha. The strength of the people during the Blizzard of '75 followed a few months later by the Tornado of '75. There were also many fun spots for people in their 20's. Does anyone remember the old Quebec Club on Ames? Many good poeple met at that spot to be entertained by the bartender Don Losole. What a people caring person Don was (is).

[McBain II]

Originally Posted by Mustang33

I was also in Omaha in the seventies. Times were very turbulent in that era. Many riots around various parts of the inner city as well as the park across from UNO. However, the time is better remembered for the wonderful people and positive attitude of the people of Omaha. The strength of the people during the Blizzard of '75 followed a few months later by the Tornado of '75. There were also many fun spots for people in their 20's. Does anyone remember the old Quebec Club on Ames? Many good poeple met at that spot to be entertained by the bartender Don Losole. What a people caring person Don was (is).

When you mentioned the riots I was thinking "no way, this can't be right" and then I Google'd it and sure enough, there were several race related riots in 1960's Omaha.

[Filthy McNasty]

I lived about 24th & Kansas at the time and although I was about 1 1/2 miles north of the epicenter, we could still hear the uprising.

I also remember hearing the bomb blast from 28th & Ohio that killed Larry Minard in August of 1970.