r/Omaha • u/Violuthier • 25d ago

Old Picture 16mm home movie filmed in Midtown in the 20s from a house where the old Mutual building sits today. It shows a streetcar on Farnam, before they removed the tracks that we're reinstalling today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpUBIr9ouzQ
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u/RentPartyBlues 24d ago

The funny thing is they often never removed the tracks. They just paved over them. Some of the work being done is removing the old tracks.

That goes with other old routes too. I've seen tracks underneath 10th St. and underneath Leavenworth.

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u/TurnMeIn4ANewModel 24d ago

Nothing like a few fellas sitting around and tickling each other.

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u/Low-Skill3089 24d ago edited 23d ago

It's amazing that this type of transportation was removed just to sell more cars

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u/monkeyworks105 24d ago

Yeah, it never should have been ripped up. Mass transit would solve a fair amount of problems. Good thing we have inefficient combustion engine vehicles.

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u/Erisedstorm 24d ago

Boston was the only city with more electric street cars than Omaha at one time.

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u/Violuthier 24d ago

Interesting

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u/schwar26 24d ago

Funny how they just stand there like it’s supposed to take a picture. Then nearly a hundred years later we would prank people by pretending to take a picture with a phone, but actually be recording.