Thu Sep 09 @04:30PM - 06:00PM
Thursday Tour
Sat Sep 11 @11:00AM - 12:30PM
Saturday tour
Thu Sep 16 @04:30PM - 06:00PM
Thursday Tour
Sat Sep 18 @11:00AM - 12:30PM
Saturday tour
Thu Sep 23 @04:30PM - 06:00PM
Thursday Tour

     The South Omaha business district stands apart from nearly all the commercial districts in the city in terms of its level of development and degree of historical and architectural integrity.

      Walk down the street today and see the restaurants, women’s clothiers, financial and personal services which serve the latest immigrant group to arrive in River City. Transportation has been key to the development and continued use of the business district from the start of the streetcar railway system in the early 1900s thru the birth of the Interstate highway system which carries people to the area.


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Sites of Interest

Other sites of interest in the South 24th Street vicinity

  • Sokol Museum 22nd and U Streets  ( a Czech museum)
  • GI Forum 20th and Missouri Streets (tribute pictures of WWII and Korean War Hispanic veterans)
  • Project Omaha - classroom of Gary Kastrick at South High School (many stockyards mementos)
  • South Omaha Library - 29th and Q Streets
  • Monuments of stockyards history - located around the Stockyards Exchange Building
  • Sculpture from John Lajba saluting the meatpacking workers - 33rd and L Stockyards Plaza in front of MS Store
  • Metro Community College - 29th and Babe Gomez Drive (historic South Omaha photos in hallways)
  • Joe Tess Fish Place - just south of 24th and Q
  • Johnny’s Café - 27th and L (one of Omaha’s famous historic steakhouses)

1920s

Packers National Bank

Vacek Department Store

Hymie Milder – grocer

Petersen and Michelson Hardware

1940s

Beaton Drug

H and H Chevrolet

Hinky Dinky

Commercial Savings and Loan

SS Kresge 5+10

Pheasant Cigar Store

Buck’s Booterie

1960s

Bell Beauty Salon

Calandra Camera

Neneman’s Bakery

May Billiards

Montgomery Ward

Yechout Paint and Wallpaper

FW Woolworth

1980s

Bachelor Hotel

Record City

Chicano Awareness Center

Sportsmen’s Store

Brodkey Jeweler

Casas Las Americas