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L I V I N G : New Beginnings on Park Avenue For Dave Wingert and Urban Village Development, it’s all about new beginnings.

V I S U A L : The Object Enthusiast Ceramist Emily Reinhardt Goes Global

M U S I C : It’s Just Rock and Roll Saddle Creek band Twinsmith hits the road.

P E R F O R M A N C E : Interview with an Alter Ego Comedy, Commentary, and the Mysterious Isacc French

F E AT U R E : Overland Sheepskin Co. An Old-Market Fixture

D I N I N G : Weekends Are For Waffles The Old Market Brunchin’ Crawl

FA S H I O N : Boys Just Want to Have Fun

FA C E S : Kat Fackler Modern Dance Anarchist

FA C E S : Marilyn Coffey Not Behaving Like She’s Supposed To

H I S T O R Y: Western League Park Homeruns, “The Bambino,” and an Inferno on Vinto n Street

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Calendar of Events

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New Beginnings on Park Avenue F O R D AV E W I N G E R T A N D U R B A N V I L L A G E D E V E L O P M E N T, I T ’ S A L L A B O U T T H E F U T U R E . by Lindsey Anne Baker photography by Bill Sitzmann

T WASN’T UNTIL Dave Wingert was in

his 20s that he learned, that, like himself, his father had been an actor and radio personality. And it wasn’t until that time that he learned the full circumstances surrounding his father’s death. He had committed suicide the day Dave was born.

“I inherited his talents to a T,” Wingert says. “I also inherited his melancholy.” In December 2014, Wingert had his suicide planned. He’d recently been let go from KOOO when the station changed formats—he’d served as morning host since his departure from KGOR in 2012. He was in the middle of a run of A Christmas Story at the Omaha Playhouse. He was going to have to leave his downtown condo. He couldn’t imagine leaving it. When the Playhouse show closed, he thought, he’d just leave altogether. He started writing letters to his friends. And then he realized he couldn’t do it. “It leaves such a wake,” he says. “I have friends who have people they’re still missing. You can’t do that.” So he opened up to his friends. He started looking for a new place. After combing through numerous apartments downtown, he walked into a lofty apartment in The Unitah Flats, an Urban Village Development property at 29th and Leavenworth streets. There he found his new home.

“This place really was a life-changer,” he says. “To start a new chapter, your environment is important.” The City of Omaha might agree. It approached Jerry Reimer and Scott Semrad, owners of Urban Village Development, in 2011 to come up with housing solutions for a four-block section at and around Park Avenue and Leavenworth Street—a notoriously difficult intersection plagued by drug activity and buildings in various states of disrepair. “It was a hard project,” Reimer says. “The buildings were in awful condition.” Urban Village, established in 2008, had been avoiding Park Avenue in its work to renew multifamily housing in Midtown; once it decided to tackle the project, the only real place to start was with a blank canvas. The buildings were gutted. Roofs were replaced. Buildings originally designed to contain specific numbers of units—which, over time, had been divided up to include more units— were outfitted with only the number of units intended. The goal was to marry the best new-construction amenities—granite countertops, stainless steel appliances, lofty ceilings, washers and dryers, walk-in closets—with Midtown character; exposed brick walls, wood floors, and, especially, well-working windows. Reimer was careful to say the project, while respectful of the buildings’ history, wasn’t about historical preservation. >

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< It was about a better future. Wingert’s apartment in the Unitah is filled with things from his previous home—contemporary chrome and glass tables, a grey sofa, wood, and glass storage pieces. The walls are studded with vibrantly hued art and wall sculptures mostly done by local artists and friends. Twelve-foot ceilings and 8-foot colonial doors in crisp white gave him an airy space to fill. “Everything found its own home,” Wingert says. Several of his windows overlook a landscaped courtyard that’s part of the development; the others offer views of the neighborhood streets. “I can sit at my computer or on my couch and watch 20- and 30-somethings walking their dogs outside,” Wingert says. “It’s a village. I feel that energy in the building.” Of course, the hope now is that future improvements will come to Park Avenue— commercial and mixed-use space both. Reimer said the Park Avenue project couldn’t have happened without the model Mutual of Omaha’s Midtown Crossing created; he’s encouraged now by emerging developments like the Blackstone District. “I hope it will come down to Leavenworth,” Reimer says. “It’s a big dream, but I think it could be the new Dundee someday. And if Park Avenue and Leavenworth can be successful, there’s not a project in Midtown that couldn’t be successful. For now, for Park Avenue and Leavenworth, and for Wingert, things are beginning. “Right now, I don’t need anything,” Wingert says. “Things have to move forward or move back. The nature of Omaha has gone away from the center and it’s starting to come back. “I love it here,” he says. “I love making a difference in the city. This is my home.” It’s all as it should be, he says. “The universe always takes care of you.” Encounter

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The Object Enthusiast C E R A M I S T E M I LY R E I N H A R D T GOES GLOBAL by Kim Carpenter photography by Bill Sitzmann

OR ARTISTS DREAMING of making a living

from art, Emily Reinhardt’s life must seem like the ultimate fantasy. Every day, the 26-year-old turns down high-end retailers and specialty boutiques who are clamoring to carry her distinctive ceramic vases, tumblers, vessels, tableware and signature ring dishes. Demand is so high, in fact, she’s having difficulty keeping up with orders.

It’s a great problem to have, one Reinhardt never would have envisioned several years ago. That’s because she didn’t set out to be a ceramist. She initially studied photography at Kansas State University, but after receiving oblique praise from a professor while taking a ceramics class, she realized clay was her medium. “For my first project, I made sculptural mounds with indentations to hold bowls, and a professor walked by and said, ‘That’s pretty good,’” Reinhardt recalls. “My teacher said, ‘He never says that! You should definitely change your major!’ I walked right over to the office and made the switch.” >

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< The professor was Yoshi Ikeda, a ceramist known for works imbued with serene symmetry. He saw something in Reinhardt, so much so that when he retired, he gave her his kiln and wheel. “He told me, ‘I wouldn’t give this to any of your other classmates,’” she remembers. “Yoshi had a way of seeing something in you before you saw it. Without that equipment, I never would have been able to do what I’m doing.” Before then, however, Reinhardt needed a lucky break, one that came via a broken foot in 2013. Her boyfriend received a job in Omaha, but instead of joining him that summer, she had to wait until September. In the meantime, she prepared for the move by opening her store, The Object Enthusiast, on E N C O U N T E R 12

Etsy. “I ended up doing it purely as a way to get rid of pottery,” she explains. “I was just getting rid of stuff. I wasn’t planning on starting a business. I really didn’t think it was feasible.” Feasible it was. Shortly after opening, Etsy contacted her about featuring her work on its homepage in September. Reinhardt’s profile skyrocketed. “It led to a lot of sales,” she says. “I had to make everything to order. That first holiday season was insane!” Things got crazier. In 2014, retailer Anthropologie approached Reinhardt about carrying a limited run of her small dishes, which can be used for rings, bracelets, and other delicate sundries. Additional retailers

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It’s Just Rock and Roll SADDLE CREEK BAND TWINSMITH HITS THE ROAD WITH THEIR D E B U T L P. by Matt Whipkey photography provided by Saddle Creek Records

N MARCH 3, 2015, Omaha rock band Twinsmith

performed a blistering set to an attentive audience of five in Columbus, Ohio. A week prior, the band tore through their crowd-pleasing numbers to 1,500 music fanatics while supporting indie legends Cursive in California.

“Rock and roll, “Brian Johnson once famously sang, “Is just rock and roll.” Cruel, humorous, ironic, triumphant, exciting, grueling: rock and roll is this and more much for those who ride its roller coaster. For the hometown Saddle Creek Records recent signees, Twinsmith, rock and roll is a fickle livelihood. Trekking across America in support of their Saddle Creek debut LP, Alligator Years, Jordan Smith, Matt Regner, Bill Sharp, and Oliver Morgan are involved in everything from a week supporting Cursive, to headlining shows, to the madness of SXSW. E N C O U N T E R 14

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“Luke definitely took on a band member role with us. He really developed the songs and gave his ideas out,” says Smith. “The goal was to have everyone into the songs. If somebody had an idea, we would try it first and then decide together if we wanted to keep it. It was great to write these songs as a band.” The results are 10 songs ably balancing pop rock blast (“Seventeen”) and introspective balladry (“Carry On”). With its varied styles and expert production, Alligator Years is a satisfying listen solidly rooted in the modern indie domain.

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Interview with an Alter Ego MEET ISACC FRENCH: COMEDY AND C O M M E N TA R Y I N C O K E - B O T T L E L E N S E S by James Walmsley photography by Bill Sitzmann

SACC FRENCH SAYS he was an artist even before Ogo Denim hit him with his car.

“You have to think to yourself: What is art? And then, what is doing art?” French, 31, argues while brushing the tip of my nose with his big toe. “If I go shopping, is that art? It is.”

We had just finished rollerblading in sub-20 degree weather as one of the conditions of his interview, and Isacc—spelled with two c’s to make up for the k, he says — was lying across the arms of two hulking men dressed as Vikings, allowing his feet to breathe. At least that’s how French’s imagination made it seem. “If I decide to wake up in the morning and fix my hair, why am I not an artist?” French continues in a shrill, glass-shattering tenor C-sharp. “You have hairstylists and they say that they’re artists and sometimes they’re not, because I went and got my haircut and my bangs are kind of, as you see, messed up.” Disheveled as it is now, French admits that had his once perfectly groomed pageboy wig not collided with the front grill of Denim’s ’57 Cadillac in Shenandoah, Iowa, over two decades ago, his career would’ve gone in a different trajectory. The New York galleries he crashed, the ribbon dancing that he profited from, and a viral dance video that found its way on the now defunct Attack of the Show might have all been a dream, French says, had he caught the down-and-out art dealer’s eye a moment sooner. “You know, fate,” he says. “It’s kind of a fate thing.” Denim, now well into his 70s, according to French, was excommunicated from the art world in 1992 after a scandal involving counterfeit paintings. French explains that this tall, debonair native of Germany was fleeing New York for Las Vegas when he happened upon French’s genius

and the abstract paintings that had dripped onto old newspapers underneath French’s drying still lifes of food. “Mr. Denim saw the paintings on the floor and said, ‘Oh, that’s good! Sorry I hit you, kid!’” French says in his best German accent. “He saw something in me, so he just pretty much picked me up and took me away from my parents.” After a long run together that peaked with a showing at the Aboriginal Colony Gallery in Australia in 1998, which French describes as mostly sticks and face paintings and a tribe of people who were “trying too hard,” the two split for good. Denim, who French hasn’t spoken to in years, can probably still be found, he says, throwing lavish ice cream and champagne parties somewhere in New England. As for French, he can now be found in Omaha—at our First Fridays, Fashion Weeks, and galleries—as a living, breathing critique on art and reality, existing alongside our terribly executed fake laughs and our routine social disguises, formal and casual. And while he doesn’t deny the fact that he is the alter ego of an Omaha artist who refused to give his real name for publication, French assures me that he isn’t a sham. He’s just more elaborately decorated than the rest of us. “Realistically, I don’t know that I am real, but I put on my clothes and I put on my shoes and I put on everything that anyone else puts on, so I suppose I’m real,” he says. “But at the same time, people decide what’s real or not—I decide what’s real or not.” French looks away for a moment to catch a glimpse of his reflection in an ornate freestanding mirror. “I hope I’m real,” he sighs and brushes his hair to the side. “Do you see me?” Encounter

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Overland Sheepskin Co. H O O K S T H AT O N C E H E L D R I P E BANANAS STILL ARE VISIBLE IN THIS LONG-TIME OLD MARKET STORE. by Judy Horan photography by Bill Sitzmann

S A BOY in the late 1930s, Jerry Leahy rode with his father from their home in southeastern Nebraska to downtown Omaha’s fruit and vegetable market.

His father owned grocery stores in small Nebraska towns and needed produce to sell. Dad got his produce and Jerry got lunch. “I remember stopping at a little restaurant and having a nickel hamburger.”

Speed forward 40 years. It’s 1975 and a new store called Overland Sheepskin Co. has opened in the Old Market where young Jerry once loaded produce onto his father’s truck. The Omaha store is the second with that name. An Overland Sheepskin store in Taos, N.M., was founded in 1973 by Jim Leahy, the son of Jerry and his wife, Marge. Jerry’s brother, Mike Leahy, was responsible for convincing his nephew in Taos that opening a second store in Omaha was a good idea. Head coach of the Bellevue High School basketball team, Mike managed the Omaha store for one year. He called Jerry and Marge to take over in 1976. The store sits in a former banana warehouse built almost 100 years ago. Hooks used to hang bananas with twine until they cured are still visible. The entrance is a 26-foot high accordion door. “Back then they pushed trolleys of produce through the front,” Jerry says. When Jerry and Marge moved to a one-room apartment behind the store almost 40 years ago, they were surrounded by vacant stores and abandoned warehouses. Marge remembers their crude apartment. “We didn’t have a bathtub. My husband went to an auction and bought a round galvanized washtub.” They set up the improvised bathtub in the kitchen area. >

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< As the Old Market grew, so did Overland Sheepskin. The Leahys expanded in 1984, doubling the store’s size. The company’s office and shipping warehouse are in a four-story barn in Fairfield, Iowa, where Jerry and Marge now live. The warehouse’s central U.S. location makes shipping product ordered online and by catalog easier. But going to the store is still favored by customers, says sales manager Jay Flint. “It’s a touch-feely business and they would rather try on than look at pictures.” Especially when the touchy-feely items are soft fur and luxurious leather. When Jim Leahy (who is no longer involved with the company) founded Overland Sheepskin, he hand-stitched sheepskin coats, hats, mittens, and slippers. Now there are 1,500 items available.

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“We sell quality items from $15 to $15,000,” says Jay. Among them are bags, belts, hats, sheepskin coats, and boots. Also, the store offers leather jackets, handbags, cowhide and sheepskin car seat covers, and more. Eight of the 16 Overland Sheepskin stores are located in ski-resort towns in the Rocky Mountains. How does the Omaha store match up? “We love Omaha and we think it’s one of our best stores,“ Marge says. “It’s down home and family.“ Overland Sheepskin is a family owned and operated store. Jerry and Marge’s son Roger is president. Roger’s daughters, April and Amber, are active in the company. Jerry has another tie to Omaha. His uncle is sports legend Don Leahy, longtime athletic director at UNO and Creighton University. Encounter

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Weekends are for Waffles THE OLD MARKET BRUNCHIN’ CRAWL by Erin Cox photography by Bill Sitzmann

N A SOCIETY were the graphic tee is king, it’s only natural

to spot one reading Weekends are for Waffles. Even with the growing population of millennials living downtown in the Old Market, NoDo, Little Italy, and surrounding areas, it’s proving to be a lot more than just designer-tee-wearing hipsters and your typical waffles and syrup. If you’re looking for a way to spend your weekend morning, it’s clear downtown boasts some great mid-morning eateries that will excite even the crankiest morning person.

Waffles, yes. Bloody Marys and Mimosas, yes. Poached eggs on a bed of homemade corn beef hash, yes. And of course, a group of your closest friends for a good gossip session called ‘brunchin.’ This easy-to-follow route for your downtown brunchin’ crawl is not your typical Easter or Mother’s Day brunch, which the urban dictionary defines as a breakfast and lunch usually occurring around 11 a.m. for snobs who like tea and jam. Brunchin’ is just an excuse for anyone who wants a cocktail before noon when it’s not football season in Huskerland.

The queen of the world of brunchin’ is the Bloody Mary. Whether you are working through a hangover or just like to drink you vegetables, this cocktail is a sure-fire thirst quencher and hangover mitigation device. Almost any restaurant hosts their own version of this popular drink, but Stokes Grill & Bar at 11th and Howard allows you to build your own. The buffet line features a do-it-yourself Bloody Mary bar with different tomato juices, spices, vegetables, pickles, shrimp, and even bacon. Yes, we said bacon. Squeeze in a lime, head out to their patio and lounge in the sunshine on comfy couches, and wait for your order of the chocolatiest chipped pancakes this side of the Missouri River. If fruit juices are more your thing, J’s on Jackson at 11th and Jackson runs a weekend special of $4 mimosas and Bloody Marys if you have a group. The special runs all day long. Bring your pooch because their patio is dog friendly. They will even bring your furry friend their own bowl of water! A favorite of soccer fans is Wilson & Washburn at 14th and Harney. Opening at 10 a.m., the owners are aware of the time difference between

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Brunchin’ is just an excuse for anyone who wants a cocktail before noon when it’s not football season in Huskerland.

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the United Kingdom and the central United States and will air almost all of the English Premier League soccer games with a newly developed brunch menu. (Yes, sure, Americans and fans of sports involving the arms are welcome, too). The smaller menu consists of a few traditional items, but with their own funky twist. It’s your choice if you want to pair the smoked peanut butter and berry-compote-topped French toast with a hot French press coffee, or, one of their brunch cocktails. We suggest the Dirty Wicked, a cold brew coffee with bourbon, simple syrup, and bitters that will have any brunchin’ patron cheering. If you’re not in the mood for something sweet, try the hangover-slaying, homemade corned beef hash topped with two soft poached eggs and horseradish aioli. Wheatfield’s Eatery and Bakery at 12th and Howard is a natural stop for a brunchin’ crawl. They offer a large, basic brunch menu. Perk up with a creamy, whipped-topped, hot hazelnut latte. This is a great meeting place with early-bird specials starting as early as 6 a.m. on a Friday or Saturday morning. Pair your coffee with eggs, eggs, and more eggs. Not for the small stomach type, the Grandma’s Scrambler is ham, eggs, and potatoes scrambled with a drizzle of Hollandaise sauce. Did we mention it comes with a very large side—Ron’s Large Hot Cinnamon Roll? If you’ve done the downtown brunchin’ crawl right, your stomach is about to burst, but your once-throbbing head isn’t. What better way to get a proper late start to a weekend day? Encounter M AY / J U N E 2 0 1 5 23

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The women of Tbd never meant to upend tradition. But when the renegade collective of modern dancers got together last March, they accidentally dismantled a time-honored power structure that had, up to that point, mostly dictated their every flat back, tendu, and chasse. If you ask them, they just wanted to keep moving.

“Everyone here wants to dance so damn bad that they’ll do just about anything,” says Kat Fackler, 25, one of Tbd’s many co-founders. “No one can stop dancing. No one can not do it.” What’s more—and perhaps as a byproduct of their do-it-yourself attitudes and passion for modern dance—the collective has waged an almost guerrilla-style exhibition on the Omaha arts community, taking their dreamlike choreographies out of the world of dance and onto the oft-cramped cement floors of music venues and art galleries. “We’d like to see modern dance have a much stronger presence here in Omaha,” Fackler says, reflecting on Tbd’s past performances with area bands and artists. “Rather than be a surprise that modern dance is going to be included on a bill, we’d like to see it as the main attraction.” Tbd, or “To be determined”—a once-placeholder that barely saved the troupe from having to share their name with a meat salad (their insignia remains a small dish of salmagundi)—Fackler says, was the obvious step after their former leader, Maya Taylor, left for the more humid pastures of New Orleans. She says the comfort level between the 10 group participants was such that each dancer’s movements and artistic vision could be trusted in a more democratic creative process.

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Jim Williams, 59, the former Midwest Correspondent of 25 years for Dance Magazine and a hobbyist dance photographer, has been documenting Tbd since its inception. Williams says he’s been involved in modern dance for a long time and senses something special about the eclectic troupe, which ranges in age from 20-somethings to 40-somethings. “These are all people who are very trained and their technique is very good— so they’re actually worth looking at,” says Williams. “I admire them because they’re committed to doing the art form rather than just going for what you might call the lifestyle benefits of being able to say you’re an artist.” For now, Tbd is concentrating on what they describe as their “main event,” which will take place on May 9 at Motion 41 Dance’s Encore space. The collective won a spot on the show through OMAHAgraphy, an annual national choreographer’s competition. It’ll be just be one more way for Tbd participants to celebrate that side of themselves that has to keep moving.

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“I don’t even know what I would do if I didn’t have this group to go to,” says Kara Gillmore, the self-described “old person” of the collective who has been dancing for over four decades. “It’s like my secret second world.” Encounter

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OMEWHERE ALONG THE continuum of every

poem and scrap of prose that ever was and ever will be, Marilyn Coffey’s canon hovers quietly like a fleck of dust swept from the spine of a leather-bound classic. She was never in it for the fame anyway.

“It’s going to be a very tiny part,” Coffey, 77, says of her contribution to the whole of literary history while holding her thumb and index finger an atom’s width apart, “even if it’s a huge part to me at the end of my life.” But for those loyal readers of the national prize-winning and internationally published author known for her brazenness and ability to reconcile casual, everyday language with contextually strange words, Coffey will be remembered as a revolutionary. She’ll be remembered as a secondwave feminist who fought for sexual freedom, one lover at a time. beer gardens • live country music • fun zone

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Coffey was probably damned to put up a fight from the beginning, she says. It’s easy to see why. The author says she was raised in the middle; the middle of nowhere in the middle of the United States in the middle of last century, with an undiagnosed case of bipolar disorder and a lot of sexual feelings that she didn’t know what to do with.

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“I masturbated a lot and then I found out I wasn’t supposed to,” Coffey admits while laughing off a slight embarrassment for her puritan generation. “I got involved with this Christian youth leader…and that didn’t go well. I actually did try to kill myself at that point in time.”

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After religion failed to exorcise her lust, she says, Coffey denounced her faith and eventually left the comforts of her home state. She found inspiration in a brand new novel called On the Road by a then relatively unknown Jack Kerouac.

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“And then I left and I went on the road,” she says, pausing as if she still doesn’t believe it to this day. “I went on the road…I went on the road and it was definitely an experience, not like his [Kerouac’s], but it was like mine—it was an experience I wouldn’t have had otherwise if I hadn’t read On the Road.” Her trip lasted about a year before she landed in New York for roughly the next 30 years. It was in Greenwich Village where Coffey started her discourse on female masturbation through her adolescent heroine, Marcella, and where she won the Pushcart Prize for “Pricksong,” a poem described by the Los Angeles Times as “a wry poem about an obscene houseplant.”

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“I was so delighted that it was that poem that was recognized,” Coffey says, weighing the award’s fatalistic importance, “because had it been one of my more conventional poems, I would’ve felt the push to behave like you’re supposed to.” Encounter M AY / J U N E 2 0 1 5 31

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Western League Park H O M E R U N S, “ T H E B A M B I N O, ” AND AN INFERNO ON VINTON STREET by Judy Horan photography by Bill Sitzmann

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to drive by the 15th and Vinton streets area and visualize the neighborhood as it was a century ago. A ballpark sat there before burning down in 1936.

The long-gone field is where Omaha baseball history took place. Where Babe “The Bambino” Ruth hit a home run. Where Western League ballplayers fiercely competed.

Later his son would follow in Johnny’s baseball cleats. Steve played baseball for the Jewish Community Center team made up of players from the Creighton University baseball team. “They wanted someone who was Jewish, and I was the best-known Jewish player in 1957,” he says.

And where 19-year-old Johnny Rosenblatt (who became Steve’s father) started a 20-year career as an outfielder in amateur and semipro leagues. He went on to play professionally in 1934 and 1935 with the Omaha Packers in the Western League.

The field on Vinton Street was a center of excitement in 1927 when Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig came to town for an exhibition game that drew thousands of fans. Their team, the New York Yankees, were on a roll: They had just won the World Series. Gehrig was selected MVP in the American League. Ruth had hit a record 60 home runs that year.

As a semipro, Johnny Rosenblatt sometimes played under the name Johnny Ross. He became mayor of Omaha and the inspiration for the now-demolished Rosenblatt Stadium.

Steve Hayes, chairman of Omaha Print, has the box scores from that 1927 game along with historical memorabilia from the Omaha Prints, the company’s team that played in the game.

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On that unforgettable day in 1927, Lou Gehrig played for the Omaha Prints, competing with Babe Ruth, who played for the Brown Parks. Brown won 9-5. But a week later, the Omaha Prints were back on top at Vinton Street Park—then called Western League Park—winning the city championship against the Brown Parks 2-1. Hayes says that Rosenblatt played for the company’s team that day and others. “He also played basketball and bowled for us.” The park near 15th and Vinton streets had many names. The website nebaseballhistory. com explains: “The name of the park depended on the whim of the newspaper. Usually it was referred to as the Vinton Street Park. Sometimes it was called Rourke Park and later in the 1920s, League Park became the most common moniker.” Encounter

HISTORY

TIMELINE The following includes historical information compiled by Kevin McNabb when he was the media relations director for the Omaha Royals. McNabb is now a radio sports director in Columbus, Neb. 1 9 0 0 —The Omahogs team, in Omaha since 1887, started playing in a new baseball park at 15th and Vinton streets. Admission was 25 cents. 1 9 0 1 —The team was renamed the Omaha

Indians and the Western League was established.

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1 9 0 2 —The park’s name changed

to Rourke Park Western League. 1 9 0 4 —The Rangers, who played under that name

for one season, took the Western League pennant. 1 9 0 5 to 1 9 2 0 —The team is now

called the Rourkes, presumably named for manager Billy “Pa” Rourke. 1 9 0 8 —Rourke poured $32,000

into rebuilding Vinton Street Park. A new grandstand held 8,500 fans. 1 9 2 1 —A contest to rename the team resulted

in “Buffaloes” for the next six years. The Buffaloes drew 123,000 fans their first season. 1 9 3 0 —Lights were put up at Vinton Street

Park, and the first night game was played with the Omaha Packers vs. the Denver Bears. 1 9 3 6 —A new team is called the Robin Hoods. 1 9 3 6 —In August, a three-alarm fire

shortly after midnight destroyed Western League/Vinton Street Park and 12 nearby homes. Destroyed were uniforms, bats, balls, and $1,000 worth of beer and hot dogs.

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America First Companies [G-13].............402-444-1630 Berkshire Hathaway Real Estate [13th & California].................................. 402-493-4663 Blackthorne Real Estate Development... 402-884-6200 Bluestone Development [B-17].............. 402-505-9999 Grubb & Ellis/Pacific Realty.................... 402-345-5866 LOUNGES Investors Realty, Inc................................ 402-330-8000 Bricks & Mortar Bar & Bistro [F-17]....... 402-934-0005 Mercer Management Co. [F-15]............ 402-346-4445 Sake Bombers @ Blue [E-15]................ 402-408-5566 NP Dodge Condo Sales...........................402-255-5099 Waters Edge Lounge NuStyle Development Corporation...........712-647-2041 at Embassy Suites [G-15]....................... 402-346-9000 Old Market Life [D-16]............................402-305-8106 Sandi Downing Real Estate [E-15].......... 402-502-7477 PUBS Shamrock Development, Inc. [D-13].......402-934-7711 Dubliner Pub [E-14].................................402-342-5887 O’Connors Irish Pub [D-15].....................402-934-9790 S H O P P I N G Omaha Tap House [C-13]........................402-932-5131 ANTIQUES Stiles Pub [E-15]......................................402-991-9911 T. Henery’s Pub [F-14]............................402-345-3651 Antique Annex [E-16]..............................402-932-3229 Fairmont Antiques & Mercantile [E-16]402-346-9746 WINE Flying Worm Vintage [E-16]....................402-932-3229 Bricks & Mortar Bar & Bistro [F-17]....... 402-934-0005 Joe’s Collectibles (E-16 Alley]................. 402-612-1543 La Buvette Wine & Grocery [F-15]......... 402-344-8627 Reserve Goodwill [D-15].........................402-342-4102 Second Chance Antiques [C-14]............ 402-346-4930 H E A LT H & B E A U T Y The Imaginarium [D-15]..........................402-594-7061 S A L O N S & S PA S

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Curb Appeal Salon & Spa [G-16]........... 402-345-0404 Anderson O’Brien Fine Art [F-16]...........402-884-0911 RARE [D-15]............................................402-706-9673 Artists’ Cooperative Gallery [F-14]..........402-342-9617 The Hair Market Salon [F-15]................. 402-345-3692 Farrah Grant Photography [F-15]............402-312-8262 The Nail Shop [H-12].............................. 402-595-8805

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Garden of the Zodiac [F-15 in The Passageway)................................402-341-1877 Mangelsen-Images of Nature Gallery [E-14].................................................. 402-341-8460 Old Market Artists Gallery [F-15].....................402-346-6569 Omaha Clayworks [D-16]................................402-346-0560 Passageway Gallery [F-15 in The Passageway]................................ 402-341-1910 Visions Custom Framing [E-18 @ Bemis Center]...................................402-342-0020 White Crane Gallery [F-15 inThe Passageway]................................ 402-345-1066 BOOKS

Susie’s Baskets [D-13].................................... 402-341-4650 Blatt Beer & Table [E-5].................................. 402-718-8822 Tannenbaum Christmas Shop [G-15]..............402-345-9627 Capitol Lounge & Supper Club [G-10].............402-934-5999 Farnam House Brewing Company [HH-22]....402-401-6086 HOME FURNISHING & DECOR Goodnights Pizza Bar & Patio [D-4].................402-502-2151 Iron Decor and More [E-16].............................402-346-6123 Heritage Food & Wine [B-13]..........................402-991-0660 Niche [F-15]....................................................402-344-4399 Hiro 88 [D-16, 13th & Jackson]...................... 402-933-5168 Urban By Design [D-15]...................................970-214-7608 Jazz, A Louisiana Kitchen [B-13]....................402-342-3662 King Fong Cafe [B-14]..................................... 402-341-3433 JEWELRY Liberty Tavern [G-6]........................................402-998-4321 Cibola of Omaha [F-15]....................................402-342-1200 Mula [CC-22].................................................. 402-315-9051 Cornerstone Gem & Bead Co. [D-16].............402-346-4367 Nosh Wine Lounge [G-11]................................402-614-2121 Goldsmith/Silversmith [F-15]...........................402-342-1737 Omaha Press Club [A-11]................................402-345-8008 Perspective Jewelry Design Studio [E-14]......402-934-4416 Orsi’s Italian Bakery & Pizzeria [7th & Pacific].402-345-3438 Siagon Surface [C-14].....................................402-614-4496 SMOKE SHOP Storz Trophy Room [K-8]................................. 402-502-1643 Havana Garage Cigar Bar [G-15].....................402-614-3800 Wilson & Washburn [C-14]..............................402-991-6950

Jackson Street Booksellers [E-16].................. 402-341-2664 Soul Desires/Urban Abbey [G-16]..................402-898-7600 Hooka Ran’s [E-15].........................................402-934-3100 C O F F E E & T E A SG Roi Tobacconist [F-15]............................... 402-341-9264 Archetype Coffee [CC-22].............................. 402-934-1489 CLOTHING & ACCESSORIES Blue Line Coffee [D-4]....................................402-932-4463 NEARBY All About Me Boutique [F-15]..........................402-505-6000 Curbside Clothing [F-15] FA S T F O O D A R T S & E N T E R TA I N M E N T Drastic Plastic [E-15].......................................402-346-8843 Zesto Ice Cream [5-E].....................................402-932-4420 Flying Worm Vintage [E-16]............................402-932-3229 A R T G A L L E R I E S & M U S E U M S McLovin [G-15]...............................................402-915-4002 Nouvelle Eve [F-15].........................................402-345-4811 Overland Outfitters [G-15]...............................402-345-2900 Reserve Goodwill [D-15]................................. 402-342-4102 Simply Fabulous [E-16]....................................402-812-2193 Souq, Ltd. [F-15 in The Passageway]............. 402-342-2972 The Lotus [E-15]..............................................402-346-8080 Wallflower Artisan Collective (1402 S. 13 St.).402-677-9438 MUSIC STORES

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Brothers Lounge [FF-22]................................402-558-4096 The Omaha Lounge [B-13]............................. 402-709-6815 BARS

Crescent Moon [HH-22].................................. 402-345-1708 Farnam House Brewing Company [HH-22]....402-401-6086 Nite Owl [CC-22]............................................. 402-991-6767 Oasis Hookah Bar and TaZa Nightclub [B-13].402-502-9893 Scriptown [CC-22]..........................................402-991-0506 Storz Trophy Room [K-8]................................. 402-502-1643 Sullivan’s Bar [CC-22].....................................402-933-7004 MUSIC • DANCE

Capitol Lounge & Supper Club [G-11].............402-934-5999 Slowdown [C-4]..............................................402-345-7569 The Max [C-16]................................................402-346-4110 Whiskey Tango [B-13]..................................... 402-934-4874 WINE

Corkscrew Wine & Cheese [CC-22]............... 402-933-3150 Hot Shops Art Center [D-1].............................402-342-6452 F A S T C A S U A L Nosh Wine Lounge [G-11]................................402-614-2121 Modern Arts Midtown [GG-210].....................402-502-8737 Block 16 [A-13]................................................402-342-1220 SHOPPING Kitchen Table [B-13]........................................ 402-933-2810 M O V I E T H E AT E R Panda House Downtown [A-13].......................402-348-1818 C L O T H I N G & A C C E S S O R I E S Film Streams [D-4]..........................................402-933-0259 Table Grace [17th & Farnam]...........................402-708-7815 Kleveland Clothing [CC-22]..............................402-401-6147 Lids Locker Room [E-5]..................................402-334-0183 SPORTS Urban Outfitters [D-3]......................................402-280-1936 CenturyLink Center Omaha [H/I-5/6]..............402-341-1500 F I N E D I N I N G TD Ameritrade Park Omaha [E/F-3/4]........... 402-546-1800 Spencer’s for Steaks & Chops [G-11].............402-280-8888 G I F T & S P E C I A LT Y S H O P S

Drastic Plastic [E-15].......................................402-346-8843 Z O O • B O TA N I C A L C E N T E R Homer’s Music & Gifts [E-15]..........................402-346-0264 Lauritzen Gardens, Omaha’s Botanical Center [100 Bancroft St.]............................................402-346-4002 FLOWERS Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium/IMAX Theater Old Market Habitat [F-15]...............................402-342-0044 [3701 S. 10th St.]...........................................402-733-8400 G I F T & S P E C I A LT Y S T O R E S

NIGHTLIFE

Sullivan’s Steakhouse [B-13]..........................402-342-0077 Greenstreet Cycles [D-4]................................402-505-8002 The Flatiron Cafe [17th & Howard]..................402-344-3040 Inclosed Studio [D-4]...................................... 402-321-3442 The Shop Around The Corner S P E C I A LT Y F O O D [E-15 The Imaginarium]...................................402-609-8046 Patrick’s Market [B-15]................................... 402-884-1600 SPORTS BAR

BANKING

Ashley’s Collectibles [E-15, L. Level]...............402-934-3100 Pinnacle Bank [10th & Douglas]......................402-346-9180 City Limits [F-15].............................................402-345-3570 Le Wonderment [F-15]....................................402-206-9928 D I N I N G Old Market Sundries [G-15]............................402-345-7646 CASUAL DINING OM Center [D-15]............................................402-345-5078 Souq, Ltd. ]F-15 in The Passageway]............. 402-342-2972 9th Street Tavern & Grill [H-11]....................... 402-315-4301

HOME FURNISHING & DECOR

Habitat ReStore [24th & Leavenworth]........... 402-934-1033 Burger Theory [B-2]........................................402-933-6959 JEWELRY DJ’s Dugout Sports Bar/ Blazin’ Pianos [G-10]........................................402-763-9974 Takechi’s Jewelry [17th & Harney].................. 402-341-3044 Old Mattress Factory Bar & Grill [D-6] ........... 402-346-9116 The Dugout [D-2]............................................402-934-5252 M U S I C S T O R E

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