Blog Archives
NEWS CONFERENCE: Mayor Jim Suttle and Councilman Pete Festersen to Unveil New Benson Streetscape
March 14, 2012- Omaha Mayor Jim Suttle and City Councilman Pete Festersen will be unveiling plans for the new Benson streetscape at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, 2012, in the parking lot of Louis’ Market, 5718 Northwest Radial Highway. The…
August 4, 1947 – Benson High School
August 4, 1947 – Evening World-Herald You are looking down on Benson High School, which faces Maple Street (foreground) between Fifty-second and Fiftieth Streets. Its colonial-type entrance, symmetrical wings and vast expanse of lawn make it one of the best…
Benson Memories – Groceries
Sisters Nancy Beam Meyer and Bev Beam Hornig discuss grocery shopping in Benson from the 1950s on…
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!
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)…
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…
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.
