# KEY FOR THE GREATER OMAHA & DOWNTOWN OMAHA MAP

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## GREATER OMAHA MAP

### ATTRACTIONS

① AKSARBEN

② Czechoslovak Museum

③ El Museo Latino

④ Florence Mill

⑤ Fontenelle Forest

⑥ Freedom Park

⑦ Fun Plex

⑧ General Crook House

⑨ Gerald Ford Birthsite

⑩ Girls & Boys Town

11 Great Plains Black Museum

12 Henry Doorly Zoo/IMAX

13 Historic Florence

14 Joslyn Castle

15 Mahoney State Park

16 Mallory Kountze Planetarium

17 Mormon Trail Center

18 Nebraska Jewish Historical Society & Riekes Museum

19 Omaha Botanical Gardens

20 Omaha Community Playhouse

21 River City Star Riverboat

22 Rosenblatt Stadium

23 Strategic Air & Space Museum

24 Wildlife Safari

### SHOPPING

25 Borsheim's Fine Jewelry

26 Countryside Village

27 Crossroads Mall

28 Nebraska Crossing

29 Nebraska Furniture Mart

30 Oak View Mall

31 One Pacific Place

32 Regency Court

33 Rockbrook Village

34 Southroads Mall

35 Westroads Mall

### LODGING

36 Baymont Inn

37 Candlewood Hotel

38 Clarion Hotel Executive Center

39 Comfort Inn at the Zoo

40 Comfort Inn Hotel & Suites

41 Comfort Inn of Omaha

42 Country Inn & Suites West

43 Crowne Plaza Old Mill

44 Days Hotel Carlisle

45 DoubleTree Guest Suites

46 Econo Lodge I-80

47 Econo Lodge West Dodge

48 Four Points Hotel

49 Hampton Inn Central

50 Hampton Inn SW

51 Hampton Inn Westroads

52 Hawthorn Suites Hotel

53 Holiday Inn Central

54 Holiday Inn Express – Downtown Omaha

55 Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites

56 Homewood Suites

57 Howard Johnson Hotel

58 La Quinta Inn Omaha

59 Mormon Trail Motel

60 Motel 6

61 Motel 89

62 Omaha Marriott Hotel

63 Park Inn Regency Lodge

64 Quality Inn Central

65 Ramada Inn Airport

66 Ramada Limited Suites

67 Red Lion

68 Relax Inn

69 Residence Inn by Marriott

70 Satellite Motel

71 Settle Inn & Suites

72 Sleep Inn at the Airport

73 StudioPLUS

74 Super 8 Ak-Sar-Ben

75 Super 8 West Dodge

76 Super 8 West L

77 Townhouse Inn

78 Travelodge Cornhusker Inn & Suites

79 Travel Inn

80 Wyndham Garden Hotel

### BED & BREAKFASTS

81 JC Robinson House

82 Riverview Garden

83 The Cornerstone

## DOWNTOWN OMAHA MAP

### ATTRACTIONS

① Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts

② Civic Auditorium

③ Durham Western Heritage Museum

④ Gene Leahy Mall

⑤ Heartland of America Park

⑥ Joslyn Art Museum

⑦ Old Market

⑧ Omaha Children's Museum

⑨ Orpheum Theater

⑩ The Rose

### LODGING

11 Best Western Redick Plaza Hotel

12 Courtyard by Marriott

13 DoubleTree Hotel

14 Economy Inn

15 Embassy Suites

16 Hilton Gardens Hotel (opening December 2001)

17 Sheraton Omaha Hotel

18 YMCA

## MAP OF THE OLD MARKET

COURTESY OF THE GREATER OMAHA
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Douglas County Historical Society

OMAHA WORLD-HERALD: 3-29-1968

# 30 Omahans View Market's New-Old Look

By Robert Dorr

About 30 Omahans walked through several old buildings in the City Market area Thursday and viewed the beginnings of its planned restoration.

Leading the tour was Sam Mercer, Paris attorney, who owns much of the property in the Eleventh and Howard Streets area.

The British Import Shop, operated by Percival Roche, has opened at 1019 Howard Street.

Next door, the cast-iron and glass front has been refurbished and the inside is being cleaned. A French restaurant probably will open there in about September, Mr. Mercer said.

He said the French couple who will operate the restaurant is due to arrive in Omaha in mid-summer.

The inside of the building on the northwest corner of Eleventh and Howard Streets is being fixed up for an art gallery on the main floor, to be operated by Mrs. Tom Palmerton.

—World-Herald Photo.

Building to house French restaurant ... Mercer is fifth from left.

Article from the Historical Society of Douglas County, Library/Archives Center, Omaha, Nebraska.

## Market Gallery to Open Saturday

Roche... Importer of things British.

Courtesy of Omaha World-Herald.

Artist Tom Palmerton put inside his paint brushes Wednesday in favor of a heavy-duty floor sander.

"No," he said, "this isn't a new artistic medium for me. It's what it looks like—work."

Near by, Mr. Palmerton's wife, Carol, and two friends, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Patstone, were scraping white paint smears off of windows at the Palmertons's new art gallery at 1102 Howard Street.

The Palmertons will open the gallery, in a building that formerly housed a fruit market, at 7 p. m. Saturday.

Mrs. Palmerton, who will manage the gallery, said a special exhibition will be on display from Saturday night through May 19. It will include approximately 70 sculptures, paintings and ceramics created by 20 artists.

The Palmertons said the gallery—which has been named the Gallery at the Market—will “basically be a gallery for the professional or serious artist. We want it to be a showcase for both the realistic and avant garde artists.”

The 70-by-30-foot gallery will be the third business to open in the area, which has now come to be known as the Market. The other two are the British Imports shop, across the street, and the Farthest Outpost a psychedelic shop above the gallery. A French restaurant is to open across the street from the gallery later this year.

Artists whose works will be on

—World-Herald Photo.

The Palmertons... prepare for gallery opening.

display at the opening exhibition are Jim Butler, Milton Wolsky, Bill Wold, the Rev. Leland Lubbers, Zenaide Luhr, Harrison Taylor, Karla Mason, Allan Tubach, Joyce Wilson, Elain Afton-

omos, Pat Pixley, Bill Farmer, Terry Ratliff, Tom Bartek, Rice Schonlau, Marie Christian, William Cordiner, Stephen Polchert, Bruce Cox, Bob Mildrexler and Mr. Palmerton.

Sunday World-Herald

OMAHA, NEB., MAY 12, 1974. SECTION F-22 PAGES.

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Monaco, left, and Vitale. . . Last of the produce dealers.

Old Market 'Kings' Only Ones Left

Photo and Story

By Sebi Breci

Signs on business fronts in the Old Market mark theaters, bars, restaurants and unusual shops.

One sign appears to be a remnant of the past. It is on a building occupied by the Monaco & Vitale Fruit Co., 501 South Eleventh Street, the sole survivor of the once-thriving fresh produce business in the district. The business is in its 40th year in the same location.

Sam Monaco and his partner, Joe Vitale, say they are "the last of the market kings."

"When I started as a truck driver and salesman with John Russo in the early 1930s there were fruit and vegetable clearing houses everywhere," said Monaco. "And there were businesses that had been in operation for 40 or more years before I got here."

"Now we're the only ones left. And,

believe it or not, not only do the farmers want us to stay in business but also the business owners around us, including the landlord, because we are that link with the past—the real Old Market."

Monaco, who took over ownership after Russo retired in 1948, said that the volume of business was "too much for one man," so he offered Vitale, a long-time friend, a partnership about nine years ago.

"I sold fruit and vegetables for years in one of the stalls when the City Farmers' Market at Eleventh and Jackson Streets was in its heyday," said Vitale. "But I could see signs it was to be closed down, so I accepted Sam's offer. That was the best move I ever made."

The partners said "there is no such thing as dividing the work."

"What has to be done, we do. We both pitch in, whether it's loading or unload- ing a truck, stacking fruit or vegetables

or handling paperwork," said Monaco.

"Right now we are in the midst of the rush when vegetables are flowing in from Arkansas and greenhouses are shipping in hundreds of boxes of bed-ding plants, such as pepper, tomatoes, eggplants, in addition to dozens of varieties of flowers."

Monaco said that he gets calls every year from farmers who want to know if the business is going to be open the next season. "I always answer the same: 'I will stay open until I'm too old and have to quit,'" Monaco said.

The partners said they handle crops brought in by growers working acreages in West and South Omaha, Irvington, Schuyler and Lincoln. Several truck in produce from Crescent, Ia. Fresh fruit and vegetables are sold to stores in Omaha and the surrounding area, they said. Many plants and flowers are sold to Old Market-area shoppers.