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Metz Brothers Brewery – Bob Kisken in Omaha NB
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- Metz Brewery – Wikipedia
- Metz Brothers Brewery – Early Omaha: Gateway to the West – Omaha Public Library Digital Collection
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This photograph taken in 1879 shows the Metz Brothers Beer Hall. The Hall was located at 510-512 South 10th Street. The beer was brought to the hall in kegs by horse drawn wagons as seen in the photo. Charles and Fred Metz supplied the beer hall from their brewery established in 1860. The Metz Brothers Brewery was headquartered at 6th & Leavenworth streets and took up nearly a full city block. The main building was a 3-story affair crowned with a large observation deck. The rest of the complex consisted of boiler and engine houses, offices, ice houses, bottling facilities and barns for the horses. The malt house had a storage capacity of 4,000 bushels. Metz Brothers beer was famous for its “flavor, purity, amber, clearness and body” (“Frederick Krug,” p. 9). Unfortunately, the Metz Brothers Brewery did not survive Prohibition. The majority of the land was sold to the Corn Derivatives Company in January 1920.
Text written by Lynn Sullivan, October 2003
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Obama Lied – Don't Ask, Don't Tell – Bob Kisken Editorial – Rachel Maddow Show
Lt. Colonel Victor Fehrenbach Discharged For Being Gay – Rachel Maddow Show
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Caspar Star-Tribune – Bob Kisken Editorial Letter
Editor:
Lt. Col. Victor Fehrenbach has served 18 years in the Air Force. He is the recipient of at least 30 awards and decorations, including nine air medals, one of them for heroism, as well as campaign medals for Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq. He is now a flight instructor in Idaho.
The Air Force is about to discharge him because he is gay. What insanity.
Sen. Barry Goldwater had this to say years ago:
“After more than 50 years in the military and politics, I am still amazed to see how upset people can get over nothing. Lifting the ban on gays in the military isn’t exactly nothing, but it’s pretty damned close.
“Everyone know that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar. They’ll be serving long after we’re all dead and buried. That should not surprise anyone.”
Too bad some of the people in Washington don’t have the sense Sen. Goldwater did.
ROBERT KISKEN, Glenrock
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Dismay Over Obama’s ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Turnabout
By Mark Thompson / Washington – Tuesday, Jun. 09, 2009
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Members of ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) demonstrate against the Defense Department’s “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy in front of a recruitment center in Times Square, New York City – TIME.COM
South Dakotan Roundbarn – Gettysburg, SD – Bob Kisken
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When I first started my round barn project I would take a photo, print it, mat it and add it to the folio. I have a hard time taking 3 or more before I get away. I just got back from SD, Minn, Iowa, Nebraska, and Wisconsin. This is one of the photos I took in SD. The barn in all its majesty sits on a gravel road. It appears to be getting old and worn out. I would love to live across from it and watch it as it ages. Perhaps I am getting goofy in my old age but what the hell. cheers bob
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Bob-
This is the Sloat Barn near Gettysburg, SD. I have a great black and white print of this over my fireplace. The barn was photographed as part of the book on old South Dakota buildings that was published in the last couple years. The main author/editor was Jay D. Vogt, State Historic Preservation Officer, for South Dakota.
At one time, the owner wanted to jack it up and move it to town to have an antique business in but thankfully that didn’t happen but it sits in the middle of nowhere.
Take care,
Joy
Joy Sears
Restoration Specialist
Oregon State Historic Preservation Office
725 Summer Street NE, Suite C
Salem OR 97301
Phone 503-986-0688
Fax 503-986-0794
