Old Market

is.

Went to a place called V Mertz in the old market.

Now, here's the best part.

Matthew, the GM for 15 years of V Mertz, is a huge breaker.

you were at texas day brazil it no i was are you sure it's brazilian because i said that i did have no

idea they use the cut in brazil and foreign countries however this was this was beef though from burwell though it was burwell nebraska beef The Merge.

Where in the old market is it? Glad you asked that.

It's right in the main area.

Where'd you go? Do you remember where you went? There's a place called-

Probably in the Old Market

...

Gloratt's that's, like...

15 years ago it was nothing like it is now.

Is it gonna be more popular than the Old Market, you think?

Yes.

Wow.

And you're like right on the edge of the Creighton campus, so you've just got that natural foot traffic right there.

Mm-hmm.

I think for younger people, like I cannot tell you the last time I went down to the Old Market just for fun.

I'll go to Blackstone for fun, and like these new areas.

Downtown Omaha in the late 1970s was a different place than it is today.

The Old Market district was still finding its identity, its brick warehouses slowly being converted into shops and restaurants.

The streets around Clarkson Hospital were lined with apartment buildings and small businesses, the kind of neighborhood where people walked to the corner store and recognized their neighbors by face, if not always by name.

It was a part of the city that felt lived in, modest, unremarkable, the kind of place where a working man could afford rent and be close enough to walk to his job.

We've talked about that before.

Dungeon of the Damned in the Old Market, Scary Acres, which is OG.

That actually, that's on 172nd and Giles, and that's been around for a while and even has history back to Peony Park, which is interesting to talk about.

And Ranch of Terror at the Bellevue Berry Farm.

Well, it has a scary castle, a house, and then haunted woods, which haunted woods to me is terrifying.

No, thank you.

Yeah, no. Dungeon of the Damned, which is in the old market.

It's underneath Hollywood Candy.

We're here.

I'm in Old Market in Omaha.

Woke up today, and it was a short night, Andy, as you know.

And, uh, Jenny said, "We're going to Omaha," so here I am.

And hopefully, you know, they can start to pick this shit up and-

The, the old market'll still be a little bit busy, but it's just, it, it just-

I just-

It just kinda-

Like, there's definitely places that I've shot 100 times that I'll go shoot.

Yeah

But for some reason old market is just-

Do you think if the construction wasn't there we would be more apt to being down there consistently?