Talk:Union Stockyards (Omaha)/Archives/2012

Suggestions
Needs number of employees at peak. I came across a 1947 aerial tour with photos of the city which had some narrative about this. Have to find it again.--Parkwells (talk) 23:02, 8 December 2007 (UTC)

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National Register of Historic Places v. National Historic Landmark
These are two different categories, the second being the "highest". The Livestock Exchange Bldg is on the NHRP, not the NHL, and the distinction is important. I think the building may be deserving of higher status given the relation of meatpacking industry and stockyards to labor history in Omaha (and representative of the nation), but have to do some research. It looks as if the nomination missed that aspect of the social context - surprising. It's particularly important given the organizing and membership in the union, which was interracial (CIO) and yielded real benefits, as well as progressive union support for civil rights before the shifts in industry. Given that new immigrants are trying to organize in South Omaha and the meatpacking industry is tougher than ever, that history is important to interpret. (Also, I discovered there are no labor-themed National Historic Landmarks west of the MS River, which could help the nomination. I know working on that outside Wikipedia is a separate issue, but wanted editors to see why the categories were different.--Parkwells (talk) 12:14, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Yet again, thank you thank you for your picking these articles up for your c/e Parkwells. Its like magic I tell ya. I understand that differentiation b/w NHRP and NHL, thanks for reiterating it, and I do want to help with what you're drawing up if I can. I found a significant amount of information about the labor organizing in the meatpacking plants surrounding the stockyards when I wrote up the Timeline of riots and civil unrest in Omaha, Nebraska; however, I didn't include it in this article because of the difference between the stockyards and those plants. I think a more appropriate location for that type of information might be an article entitled Meatpacking in Omaha, Nebraska; however, nothing similar to that kind of hyper-local industrial history currently exists as a template, so I would want to go slowly into the process of writing that up. In response to the absence of labor-themed NHLs west of the MS river, that is only mildly surprising. My experience in these western United States has shown me a sort of reticence on behalf of civic leadership towards any sort of commitment to acknowledging the diverse history of these places. I was shocked when city leaders leaders in Olympia, Washington erected a heritage marker elaborating on the city's history of mistreating Chinese immigrants, particularly at the turn of the 20th century when there was mass rioting up and down the coast focused on "burning out" their communities. But then I saw that the father of Gary Locke, the state's first Asian governor, was specifically mentioned on the marker. Coincidence? So, there's a lack of civic leadership on the local level that disallows for the "people's history" to surface, whether labor, race, socioeconomic, ethnic, or other deviation from mainstream cultural acceptance. Bleh. • Freechild   'sup?   13:23, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

Where is the bloody thing?
Hi, sorry, I'm doing research about Sheelytown, and all it says is that it's north of the Unions Stock Yards, but neither that page nor this one says where the hell the Union Stock Yards actually ARE. Could someone who knows this fix this?? Thank you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Completesentence (talk • contribs) 04:02, 11 November 2009 (UTC)


 * I've (several years later...) added some coordinates to the article, so you can pull up the area on a map. The stockyards were in the area south of L Street, and west of the railroad tracks that parallel freeway US-75. --Delirium (talk) 05:25, 29 December 2012 (UTC)