Old World Omaha Nebraska 

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?

Me 2

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

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 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.

And the tunnels are still there but closed off by iron doors to this day!!

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.

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.

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.

Exactly

I have a file...

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.

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.

If you're genuinely interested, you can check out more from my channel. I also have links to similar content creators. Thanks for watching..

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

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'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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Very sad history. We had lynchings, yes, and even a huge race riot. :( Malcom X was also from Omaha!

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..

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.

I'll check it out.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Should I go for a masters or would an undergraduate degree suffice...

@@oldworldex🤣

Sometimes buildings need refurbishment. 🤷‍♂

Smoking gun of what kind? Please elaborate.

Thank you! Much appreciated...

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.

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.

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 Stylee

@@Dommommy Feels so good

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@@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

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...

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.

lol.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

Thanks for sharing

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.

Not that they didn't exist. Just that the timeline is wrong.

Thanks I appreciate the feedback. I've made efforts to do that in my more recent uploads. What's the #BeBest platform?

Thank you so much 😀

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.

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.