Today is a very special day. Carol and I were married in Bellevue, Nebraska 60 years ago. Carol was in the Air Force and I had a job on the base at SAC Headquarters. We lived in Bellevue for three years and our son, John Andrew, was born in the base hospital. This year to celebrate our 60 years, we decided to return to the Omaha/Bellevue area and visit some of our old haunts.
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| Here we are four days before the wedding. My mom took this picture in the living room our our first home. We look so young and innocent (and much thinner)! |
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| Our first home was this trailer located in a trailer park right outside of the Bellevue Gate to Offutt AFB. |
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| An updated version of our wedding picture. |
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| We drove the Loess Hills National Scenic Byway. Loess Hills was formed after the last ice age when the melting glaciers ground down the bedrock left from the glaciers into fine silt. Strong winds blew the dry dust into the tall, steep bluffs of Loess Hills. This type of soil is found in only one other place in the world and that is along the Yellow River in China. |
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| Pictures from Loess Hills Byway. |
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| After lunch we drove into Council Bluffs to visit the Union Pacific Railroad Museum located in the old Council Bluffs Library. It was everything trains and was very interesting. |
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| From the museum we walked to the Squirrel Cage Jail of Pottawattami County. It is a rare 1885 three-story jail used until 1969. It is the only three-story revolving jail ever constructed. The cells are pie-shaped. The jailer doesn't have to walk to the prisoners, he just turns the rotating cells to him. In 1885 it costs $30,000. |
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| The building that contains the bird-cage jail. |
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| The handle that turns the revolving cages. One person could turn the entire three-story cell block. |
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| A view of the cells. |
After visiting the jail, we drove into Omaha and the Best Western by Epply Airport where we will spend the next two nights. Tomorrow we will go to Bellevue where it all began and explore Omaha to see how much it has changed in 60 years.
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