Concepts for Sunday columns come from diversified sources. The included picture, lengthy buried in my information, was given to me most likely 30 or extra years in the past by Don Bryant, former Nebraska sports activities info director, whose spouse’s cousin owned the Co-Op Bookstore within the foreground.
Solely the previous Nebraska Buick Constructing on the left and a tiny nook of The Temple on the proper stay; all the pieces else has been changed by the College of Nebraska as its southern boundary spills south from the Fifties view, trying southwest.
Essentially the most seen enterprise is the Co-Op Bookstore, which sat on the southwest nook of thirteenth and R and was operated by Arthur “Howard” Peden. Peden was born in Oakland, Nebraska, then attended Morningside School, the place he studied music and was on the soccer workforce.
Upon commencement he toured with a number of circus orchestras and met Merle Evans, who later was the band chief for Ringling Bros. Barnum & Bailey Circus and visited Peden in Lincoln on a number of events.
About 1917 Peden moved to Lincoln and opened the Co-Op Bookstore, first at 318 N. eleventh St., then 340 N. eleventh and later 1245 R St. as pictured.
Round 1955 he modified the identify to Peden’s Guide & Provide, promoting to Nebraska Guide Co. within the early Sixties. The shop modified the identify Peden’s to Campus Bookstore, functioning along with their essential retailer a block to the west.
Howard Peden was lively as a musician in lots of organizations together with the Lincoln Municipal Band, the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra and the orchestra on the Liberty/Oliver Theatre on the southwest nook of thirteenth and P.
Additionally seen within the Fifties picture, to the proper of the bookstore, are a residence, Cotner School/Cotner Home, Dagwood’s Cafe and the College’s Temple Constructing. To the left of the shop are two massive residences, Bloom’s Typewriter, after which the Dandee Sundee Store which is barely seen on the northwest nook of thirteenth and Q.
5 years later Dagwood’s turned Vern’s Shack, Cotner Home turned the Cotner Faculty of Faith and 1229 R St. turned Quentin’s Towne & Campus Sporting Items.
By 1960 Vern’s turned Russ’s Snack Store whereas the home to the left of the bookstore was Theta Chi Fraternity and the home to its left turned Cornhusker Co-op. On the northwest nook of thirteenth and Q, Tastee Inn opened its second location.
As Peden’s turned Campus Bookstore in 1965 the 2 massive homes south of the shop turned one other co-op and a dormitory for Cotner Faculty of Faith.
A decade later the 2½-story home adjoining to Campus Bookstore to the south was bought by Nebraska Guide and linked, by tunnel, to the shop, whereas the Cotner Faculty of Faith constructing was additionally bought by Nebraska Guide with the intention of making a museum for Johnny Johnsen’s artwork, e-book and western collections.
Tastee Inn closed to be reopened by an affiliate professor {of electrical} engineering because the Hong Kong Pizza King.
In 1980 the roughly half-block space was starting to alter shortly. The bookstore turned Taco Inn whereas the one enterprise between it and the Temple was Dippy Doughnuts. The 2 massive homes to the south turned flats. By 1995 the one occupied properties alongside thirteenth and R had been the 2 home/flats whereas Nebraska Guide turned concerned in a big property swap for all their places on the block in change for the northeast nook of thirteenth and Q.
Mary Riepma, whose father was the minister at Second Presbyterian Church at sixteenth and P, began lessons on the College of Nebraska, pledging Delta Gamma sorority. After graduating from Vassar, she went on to obtain her regulation diploma from Memphis State College.
With World Battle II, she married twice, changing into Mary Riepma Cowell Ross and one of many first ladies to follow regulation in New York Metropolis. In 1990 she established a $3.5 million belief which financed the Mary Riepma Ross 342-seat theater, analysis library, school rooms and movie theater on the southwest quarter block of thirteenth and R, which opened in 2003. At her dying, at 102 in 2013, an extra reward from her property introduced the whole granted to the college to $9.5 million.
Block 25, which began with dwellings, southeast of the College’s 10-acre campus, moved within the course of small companies via the years and is now occupied by 4, quarter-block, college features together with the 1996 set up of Claes Oldenburg’s 22-foot-tall “Torn Pocket book.”
To the south of the theater the brand new Van Brunt Guests Heart, named in honor of Irene and Winslow Van Brunt, opened, making all the east half of the block, coupled with the previous Nebraska Bookstore throughout thirteenth Avenue, a brand new vibrant entrance to the College of Nebraska. The Hong Kong Pizza King and Dandee Sundee exist solely as shortly fading reminiscences.
Prime Journal Star Pictures for September
Lincoln Excessive gamers Adonis Hutchinson (2), Javon Leuty (22) and Beni Ngoyi (8) stroll out of the tunnel earlier than taking over Omaha Northwest on Friday at Beechner Advanced.
Nebraska’s Madi Kubik (prime left) reacts after a kill by teammate Lindsay Krause (heart) towards Loyola Marymount on Thursday on the Devaney Sports activities Heart.
Danish artist Julie Sass works on Wednesday to assemble her present, “IMAGE: short-term constellation,” at Fiendish Plots, 2120 Magnum Circle.
Nebraska’s Nicklin Hames (heart) reacts after a serve by Lexi Rodriguez (proper) received the second set for the Huskers on the Devaney Sports activities Heart on Saturday.
A airman walks alongside the wing of now retired WC-135C/W, throughout a retirement ceremony for the ultimate “nuke sniffer” plane utilized by The Fightin’ Fifty-Fifth on the Lincoln Airport on Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2022, in Lincoln, NE. The WC-135 Fixed Phoenix is a special-purpose plane derived from the Boeing C-135 Stratolifter and utilized by the USA Air Power. Its mission is to gather samples from the ambiance for the aim of detecting and figuring out nuclear explosions. It’s also informally known as the “climate chook” or “the sniffer” by employees on this system and worldwide media respectively. The fifty fifth Wing will retired one among it jets and welcomed its newest throughout a 1 p.m. ceremony on the Lincoln Airport. The Fightin’ Fifty-Fifth formally retired the WC-135C/W and formally welcomed WC-135R tail quantity 4836 to its fleet. Tail 4836 is the primary of three WC-135R deliveries to the wing, whereas tail 2667 is the final of the previous WC-135C/W fleet to be retired.
Development of the brand new soccer coaching complicated has progressed to the purpose that followers will be capable of entry the northeast nook of Memorial Stadium this season.
Nebraska’s Anthony Grant (left) tries to interrupt unfastened from North Dakota’s Marcus Vaughn-Jones (9) on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Lincoln North Star’s Jace Coleman (14) is tackled by Lincoln Northeast on Thursday at Seacrest Discipline.
Nebraska’s Bekka Allick (left) and Nicklin Hames have a good time after a Husker kill towards Mississippi within the second set on the Devaney Sports activities Heart on Saturday.
Nebraska linebacker Ernest Hausmann takes the sector earlier than the sport towards North Dakota on Saturday. Hausmann, a real freshman, performed 40 snaps within the sport.
Nebraska’s Lexi Rodriguez (heart left) and Madi Kubik (prime proper) have a good time with their workforce Kubik’s match-ending kill towards Loyola Marymount on Thursday on the Devaney Sports activities Heart.
Nebraska edge rusher Garrett Nelson walks off the sector after the Huskers’ win towards North Dakota on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Mario Garcia of Lincoln, a passenger on the primary flight to Houston early Friday, picks up souvenirs at Lincoln Airport’s first flight ceremony.
Nebraska working again Ajay Allen celebrates his fourth-quarter landing towards North Dakota on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Nebraska’s Lindsay Krause (22) hits a ball previous Creighton defenders on Wednesday at CHI Well being Heart Omaha.
Nebraska coach Scott Frost talks with North Dakota coach Bubba Schweigert earlier than Saturday’s sport at Memorial Stadium.
Nebraska’s bench reacts to a play throughout the match towards Creighton on Wednesday at CHI Well being Heart Omaha.
Followers arrive at Memorial Stadium earlier than the North Dakota sport on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Lincoln North Star gamers have a good time after profitable a softball sport towards Lincoln Pius X Thursday at Doris Bair Softball Advanced.
Shawna Fosket holds a Tremendous Punch, a punch needle software she’s labored to develop. A Kickstarter marketing campaign has raised nearly $6,000.
Nebraska head coach Scott Frost high-fives a younger fan earlier than the North Dakota sport on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Lincoln Southeast’s Henry Woods (prime) is introduced down by Lincoln East’s Carter Tempelmeyer on Friday at Seacrest Discipline.
A primary-quarter moon rises over Memorial Stadium towards the tip of the Nebraska-North Dakota sport on Saturday at Memorial Stadium.
Lincoln Excessive’s Religion Van Eck (left) makes an attempt to dam Lincoln Northeast’s Genna LeMay within the second set at Lincoln Northeast on Tuesday.
