Sisters Nancy Beam Meyer and Bev Beam Hornig discuss grocery shopping in Benson from the 1950s on…
Monthly Archives: February 2012
VINTAGE PHOTO: Benson Tailor
Benson Tailor Photo from Marlene and Joan Gatz’ collection Click on picture for larger image. Please share your old photos, videos, memorabilia and stories of pre-2000 Benson. E-mail bensonnebraska@gmail.com or call (402) 953-3500 today!
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Bank of Benson – Real Estate & Insurance
Bank of Benson – Real Estate & Insurance From the Omaha World-Herald/John Savage Photography collection at The Durham Museum Click on picture for larger image. Please share your old photos, videos, memorabilia and stories of pre-2000 Benson. E-mail bensonnebraska@gmail.com or call (402)…
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Paperdoll Moves to New Location
Paperdoll Vintage Boutique has relocated to its new location at 6107 Maple Street in the heart of downtown Benson. Store owner, Kelsey Riewer, teamed up with internationally renowned artist Gerard Pefung in the space’s interior design, putting a modern day urban spin…
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Vintage Aerial Photograph of Benson, Nebraska
Vintage Aerial Photograph of Benson, Nebraska From the Omaha World-Herald/John Savage Photography collection at The Durham Museum Click on picture for larger image. Please share your old photos, videos, memorabilia and stories of pre-2000 Benson. E-mail bensonnebraska@gmail.com or call (402) 953-3500 today!
1983 – Benson’s Ice Cream Factory
Rod Miller, owner of Designs & Signs, has been painting murals since the early 1980s. Here he shares a few snapshots of the work he did at Benson’s old Ice Cream Factory at 6067 Maple Street.
Jim Beam – Memories of Growing Up in Benson
Great to see you’ve started a Benson website, love history, have several file cabinets of family history that’s been ongoing since 1976. Gunnar Horn was my journalism teacher in 1963 at Benson High, a former leader of Benson Historical Society; he grew…
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1950s Benson at Christmas
Photos courtesy Nancy Meyer & family
Nancy Meyer: “Benson in 1950s”
Photo #1: Typical kitchen in 1950 -Lois Beam (note hoosier is ONLY cabinet for dishes! And note 1 black wall phone-ONLY phone) Photo #2: 2347 N 63 St taken in 1950′s (Dewaine & Lois Beam) Photo #3: Typical Christmas in…
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History of Fontenelle Park
The City of Omaha is reviewing Benson’s Fontenelle Park for other uses. Resident Kira Gale published a fine historical narrative of the Park. Check it out by clicking HERE.
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