PIONEER VILLAGE, Minden, Nebraska

AMAZING MUSEUM The brochure states:

" The Story of America and How it Grew More than 50,000 items from every Field of Human Endeavor. 28 buildings on 20 acres..Authentic Originals arranged in their order of Development..All Mechanical Items in Operating Condition."

This is the most amazing museum we've ever seen. It literally didn't leave anything out. Farm machinery, a country church, 350 antique autos, bicycles, covered wagons, thousands of collections of every item you can think of. We kept saying "this is amazing"

The oldest cars and numerous air planes were over head.

Several steroscopes of 3 D pictures of pictures depicting the old west, old cars, etc

This was in the Bloomington Land Office. It was moved to the museum. It actually served pioneers filling theri homestead clains. It contains early maps, and old land records. Read this old Homestead Act of 1862 which was posted on the wall.

There were a number of large buildings containing the collections, but in the center was a circular area with the church, log cabin, school house, China house, Firehouse, general store, small fortress, all around a large grassy area with picnic table, flowers and flowering trees such as this magnolia tree.

The display of old records and recording machines. There were two long rows of them.

One area had room after room showing old stores and businesses. Here's part of the drugstore.

You wouldn't think there'd be antique computers in a musuem but some of them are history. Larry saw some of the first card machines that he worked with in the late 50's with the 330th DPU, his army data processing unit, like the key punch, sorter, collator, and accounting machine, and a System 35 he helped convert to the System 38 in IBM in the mid 70s.

There was a 34 and 35 Terraplane, a couple of Essex, a 24 and a 25 Hudson and a 49 Hudson Super Six, as well as Brushes, Moons, Packards, Stars, Cords etc. LPC


To be continued......