Memory lane

Enjoy historic photos of 24th street

March for civil rights on 24th street, June 13th, 1966

1984 picture of the Calvin Memorial Presbytarian Church, on 24th & Wirt Street.

1967 picture of Technical High School drill team being featured in a Parade. Skeets BBQ in the background was a hub for socializing and social change, as was the dreamland ballroom, also featured in the background.

The Ritz Theatre was open in 24h & Patrick Street from 1935-1955.

1890 Presbyterian church, 1109 24th Street. This was the second church of its kind in Nebraska and then transformed into a Jewish Synagogue in 1908.

The DePorres Club Lead a boycott in front of Reed’s Ice Cream for their segregationist hiring practices.

Hall’s Confectinary Shop and “St. Louis Flat” apartments on 24th and Paul St.

The original Omaha Library on 2019 N 24th Street in 1907.

Advertisment from Crissey’s Pharmacy in 1913.

This is a comparison of time. Safeway opened in 1935 and was burned down and closed by 1960. This building now belongs to the Salvation Army and is a day center for children in the summer.

Metropolitian Building and Loan Association.

The headquarters of the United Front Against Fascism and Omaha Black Panther Party sat on 3508 N. 24th St. in the Kountze Place neighborhood.

1972 image of Skeet’s Carryout