Weird Omaha: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful and Obscure by Ryan Roenfeld, Reedy Press, St. Louis, Mo, 2021.
This book is a very good reference book and tells you many places to see in Omaha and the surrounding area. It includes many Bellevue sites. For example:
Omaha has a no roller coaster law based on a four cars leaving the track falling from the Big Dipper Roller Coaster at Krug Park resulting in four deaths and 17 injuries. Many were trapped inside the cars.
Omaha has been the site of several riots over the years.
A giant fork in Little Italy.
The Japanese sent balloons with bombs and floated them over the United States. One exploded in Omaha with no injuries. Another exploded in Oregon and killed a family. I had never heard of this.
Standing Bear was a Native American, Ponca who was arrested off the reservation as he came home to the area to bury his son. He sued for habeas Corpus and proved that Native Americans are people with rights. His name now adorn Standing Bear Lake in north Omaha.
And over 100 more such gems.
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