tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36542287.post232226543226559526..comments2024-03-24T14:34:09.297-05:00Comments on My Blog: A Walk Up VintonOmababehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13923843074599022110noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36542287.post-23184851256782246032018-02-20T09:11:34.208-06:002018-02-20T09:11:34.208-06:00Brian, the "corner bar" idnt the rondezv...Brian, the "corner bar" idnt the rondezvous. Otto and teresa were my grandparents, and the bar was on the corner of 15th, on block east from the building that says mattresses on it at beginning of article. They had an apartment above there when i was pretty young until we moved them to the place in the same building the bar was in. Chuck Witt and maybe a fella named Vern lived in the basement apartment there too at the time. <br /><br />Kinda surprised this blogger missed the browns park ball field story on 15th....should look into that wide apron on the northeast corner of the street sometime K meyerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03673974187462610307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36542287.post-42384151249773111382016-12-13T00:54:54.143-06:002016-12-13T00:54:54.143-06:00It’s in fact very complicated in this active life ...It’s in fact very complicated in this active life to listen news on Television, thus I only use web for that purpose, and obtain the most recent news.<br /><a href="https://www.mein-plakat.de" rel="nofollow">Werbeflächen</a>lisysomnahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01642646362380179620noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36542287.post-1053197206505985732012-02-10T13:44:34.204-06:002012-02-10T13:44:34.204-06:00Great article, The Historical Vinton Business Dist...Great article, The Historical Vinton Business District is now in a total revitalization, supported by the Omaha Chamber and Omaha By Design. Many things have happened here on Vinton since the time your wrote your original article, and lots more things are in the works, including a facade and signage program. Tons of vehicle and pedestrian traffic now also. Come back again and join the fun! P.s. Turner Hall wasn't ever a theatre that we know of....Larry Fergusonhttp://www.fergusonstudio.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36542287.post-5253204977889955952011-12-02T02:36:34.150-06:002011-12-02T02:36:34.150-06:00Omababe, I found your very interesting blog on a D...Omababe, I found your very interesting blog on a December night in 2011, long after the fact. But if you see this, I thought you might enjoy some 1960s context.<br /><br />I spent much of the '60s walking up and down Vinton. My father was pastor of the former Salem Lutheran Church (now apartments) at 3219 S. 23rd St., and we lived in the parsonage next door at 3223. Vinton School (also now apartments, and actually on Deer Park Boulevard) was 10 steps from our back yard. Its extensive schoolgrounds -- the hillside running down to Vinton Street, and the playing field to the east -- are now completely covered with apartments as well. The "rhomboid building" at 20th Street was Katz Foods, a wonderful little neighborhood grocery where we did much of our trade. On the northwest side of Vinton right about that point was an old OPPD (actually Nebraska Power) power station that may be gone now. <br /><br />The brick "certified services" building at 1945 was a U.S. Post Office in the early 1960s; I think it closed around 1967. <br /><br />The relabeled grocery stores on the northwest side of the street were a Safeway and Super Valu, I believe, upgraded around 1965. <br /><br />On the next block was, among other businesses, Lyman Drug, where I bought comics, pop and Popsicles while waiting for the World-Herald at Station E, across the street. Later, that paper station moved to the back of the Turners Club, which was indeed the German equivalent of a Sokol. I, too, believe the building originally was a movie theater. Cross-checking the addresses with old City Directories at the library might prove fruitful.<br /><br />I was only in the hardware store at 18th Street a few times, but it was definitely an old-style store, a seemingly undifferentiated mass of counters and shelves, filled with gee-gaws and thingamabobs!<br /><br />The Nieto's Pasteleria building held a bakery in the same location, and a drug store in the next storefront, which became my comic-book HQ in junior high. <br /><br />It's hard to recognize after the extensive paint job, but I think the Vinton Street Bar may be the former Matulka's Rendezvous, a longtime bar that I think was still open under that name around 2000. <br /><br />There was an interesting building on the southeast corner of 16th and Vinton, where two brothers named Kadavy had their practices. One was a dentist, the other a doctor; my family nicknamed them "Dr. Cavity" and "Dr. Cadaver." But they were our family physician and dentist for years.<br /><br />Having read your Vinton and 13th Street blogs, you have missed one of my favorites, just south of the service station at 13th and Vinton: a old Goodrich Dairy store where I bought many a malt walking home from Bancroft Junior High. <br /><br />Thanks for a nostalgic visit!<br /><br />-- Brian Nelson, East Moline, ILAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36542287.post-63628854234868455812008-10-09T10:28:00.000-05:002008-10-09T10:28:00.000-05:00A little more digging netted me this page which sa...A little more digging netted me <A HREF="http://www.communitywalk.com/location/south_side_turner_hall_1910/general/127588" REL="nofollow">this page</A> which says this building was called South Side Turner Hall. I found a reference to a South Side Turners group in Omaha existing in 1938. It looks like the Turners were a German society devoted to gymnastics (Turner is apparently German for Gymnast), so this building was probably a meeting place and gymnasium for them. Similar to Sokol Hall on 13th & Martha.AtomicLlamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12275901046220836934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36542287.post-52275589037050294292008-10-09T10:10:00.000-05:002008-10-09T10:10:00.000-05:00You can find a little more info on the odd theatre...You can find a little more info on the odd theatre-like building on the<A HREF="http://douglasne.mapping-online.com/DouglasCoNe/static/accountinfo.jsp?accountno=R1907220000" REL="nofollow">county assessor's site.</A> They say it was built as a "fellowship hall". No idea how accurate that is.AtomicLlamahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12275901046220836934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36542287.post-43477552392664178852008-09-05T07:22:00.000-05:002008-09-05T07:22:00.000-05:00You are very correct. I totally missed it! It's ac...You are very correct. I totally missed it! It's across from the rebranded supermarked and I drove by that area and re-parked. If I can get by there this weekend, I'll get a few shots and include it, sorry.Omababehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13923843074599022110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36542287.post-35642759571348388742008-09-01T14:42:00.000-05:002008-09-01T14:42:00.000-05:00How could you leave out El Aguila? Best Mexican in...How could you leave out El Aguila? Best Mexican in town.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com