LINCOLN, Nebraska: Tour Of The BEST Car Museum In The Country

We visit Lincoln, Nebraska. A small big city, low on crime, affordable. A city to raise families. It also is the home of the best car museum I've seen. Also, we visit the interesting capital building.

Travel Vlog 97

[davohd]

WTF!!!! I have lived in Omaha since 1988. I work in Lincoln frequently . I have never heard of this! I built the Red Baron when I was a kid! I'm going to visit this soon!! Thank you.

[stevetessier]

Goodness Gracious, What a museum...Those pedal cars blew my mind...Thank You Joe& Nicole....Safe journeys to you....!

[gtotrips]

Thanks for the amazing tour of the car museum ! I especially loved the pedal airplanes, cars, soapbox racers, and the lunchboxes brought me back !
— Can you imagine how frustrating the kid would be trying to pedal and steer the tracks on those tractor ones ?

[cameronolson]

Hi lord Spoda! Lincolnite here, the Lied building you looked at is pronounced “Lead” like leader :) thanks for coming to town! Great video. And the huskers play OU this season!

[Nigelllllllllllllll]

The blue futuristic car is a Starbird Predicta and the silver lever in between the seats is the steering wheel

[yutub]

Ah, and I have a “complaint”. Only twenty odd minutes to this fascinating museum? Please, return to Lincoln for a review of the Museum and the city itself. Most charming and beautiful city. Regards from Mexico and thank you again for sharing.

[miketilson]

I grew up 1 block from the Capitol Building
So many Childhood memories. It took 10 years to build from 1922-1932. Its a beautiful building. Glad you got to see it!

[keyup]

The state building was really cool. Also the car museum epic. Lincoln looks like a super place to raise a family.

[ImForwardlook]

I'm a car geek from Finland and have visited 43 US states doing mostly car activities. However, this museum is a new addition to my bucket list! Love historic Lincoln too, hopefully I can visit in the future! Thank you for the video!

[wadesmith]

Great video guys never realize Lincoln Nebraska would be such a cool place to visit love the car museum best looking capital building I've ever seen thank you for sharing👍

[helenwinston]

I've lived in Lincoln for 7 years and have never heard of the car museum lol

[mikeramsay]

Super cool museum! Keep the videos coming, I've watched just about all of them now 🤙

[khaterehlunden]

Thank you so much for Nice video from Nice city and Nice cars museum

[rowietappy]

I’m a viewer from the UK 🇬🇧 and found your channel by pure chance and very good fortune last week. Been watching an episode or two every day since and enjoying every moment. It’s so much more interesting seeing the towns and cities of America that isn’t usually in the international spot light such as LA, NEW YORK, CHICAGO etc. You and the wife have produced an amazing travel broacher for anyone wishing to see the more hidden gems of the USA, and the bits to avoid 😂 great job guys.
Out of curiosity, how many Capital building stamps has wifey got now and is she going for the full set ? Obviously there’s 50 states but would it be 51 stamps including Washington DC ?....just a curious Brit, safe journeys guys 🤗

[enjoythepig]

Lincoln is a really great city. Nebraska in general seems to be about 30 years behind the rest of the country, and that's just fine be me.

[Chompchompyerded]

The building's name is pronounced "leed" as in leading a horse to water. The building you are looking at is not the Lied Center for the Performing Arts. It is the Wells-Fargo building. The Lied Center is just north of it. I was a classical musician before my retirement due to disability. It's not nearly as interesting. In fact we used to call it the Lied Bunker for the Performing arts because of the concrete facade it sported for many years.
My family is either deceased, or out of the nest, but even though I'm living here alone now, it's still a great place to be. There is quite a lot of diversity here primarily because of the University, but we have also been a city which is welcoming of people who were fleeing persecution in other countries. We have large Vietnamese, Hmong, Indian (subcontinent), Hispanic, and Middle Eastern populations, all of whom have contributed heavily to the growth and flourishing of the city, as well as adding to the cultural diversity. We also have sizable Native American and African American populations. One nice thing is that people don't tend to divide into ghettos as they do in other cities. Even so, we all manage to keep our own traditions going, and welcome everyone to events which are put on by every group here.
Other nice things about Lincoln is that we have a low crime rate, are reasonable cost of living and a lot of parks. We even have our own small zoo. In addition, we are less than an hour away from Omaha, which has even more to offer. It's a small city which has big city assets within easy reach. To other big attractions halfway between Lincoln and Omaha just off of Interstate 80 are the SAC Air Force Museum, and the Wildlife Safari Park.
I come from a dying small town in south central Nebraska called Ong. The town had a huge exodus of people during the farm crisis, and it did not recover. I doubt that it will last another 50 years before it is completely abandoned.
One of the nice things about Lincoln is that our economy has been very stable over the years. We don't get the highs that some places get, but then again, we don't hit the lows either. The one drawback is the weather as Lord Spoda already mentioned. Yesterday we had a low of 0 degrees with the wind out of the north at 30 mph. Zero feels a lot colder when the wind is blowing, which it almost always is. There's only three strands of barbwire between Lincoln and the North Pole to slow the wind down, so it comes howling sometimes. In the summer, we usually have a couple of weeks with temps over 100 degrees. One thinks about the Native Americans who used to roam the plains here, and because temps below zero are not unknown, and highs sometimes exceed 110 degrees in the summer, you have to respect those people and how they managed to survive out here before central heating and air conditioning. Those folks must have had a lot of bark on them.
Speaking of OU and UN-L, Do you remember "The Game of the Century"? It was played down in Norman, and it was back and forth the whole way through with some really big runs, and a few times when it looked like the running backs were going to be tackled, but they somehow popped out of the pileup and ran for touchdowns. Our running back was Heisman Trophy winner Johnny Rodgers. Honestly, I don't remember who won that game, but I do remember that it was very exciting and a real nail biter all the way through. I seem to recall that the winner ended up being national champs that year, as it often was. There were so many times when the national championship came down to who won that game. Was it Barry Switzer's tern, or was it Bob Devanny or Tom Osborne's turn? I know that for OU, their major Rival was always UT, but for us it was always OU. I do remember a guy who I dated once in college who was from Texas (this was at Harvard, so you see how our state ties go with us, even if we don't attend one of those land grant universities), and he used to call OU the University of North Texas at Norman, which used to gaul the heck out of the folks from Oklahoma. He didn't seem to thing Nebraska was worth a mention.
The building you identified as, "Gold's Gym" was actually a department store. At first it was known as Brandeis, then it became "Golds". It has some government offices in it. The tall building with the white going up the height of it is the US Bank building, which holds the main city office of US Bank, and a number of law firms. The 19th and 20th floor are occupied by Nebraska's largest law firm, Cline Williams, which has now expanded into Omaha, Grand Island, Beatrice, and Hastings. The red brick building just beyond that is the Cornhusker Hotel.
The Speedway Museum is only one of many great museums we have here. For us ladies, there's the Museum of Quilts. It has one of the largest collections of quilts in the United States, and has examples from almost every form of quilting, including rare quilts from the early 1800's. It is one of the hidden secrets here. We also have the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, which is just north of the Lied Center, and the Nebraska Museum of Natural HIstory which is located in Morall Hall on the University of Nebraska campus. There is also a children's museum where kids can go for hands-on discovery opportunities, and the National Roller-skating Hall of Fame and Museum.
It's kind of crude, but there is a name for our state capital that isn't exactly ready for prime time. Avert your eyes if you're easily offended, or skip over this if there are kids in the room. They call it the Prick of the Prairie, the Pen*$ of the Plains. I guess it's pretty easy to see why.
Much of the architectural art in the State Capitol was done by Lee Lawry, who also designed the doors for The building at Rockefeller Plaza, and the statue there too. The doors that you showed with the two indians on it were done by Lawry, as was the statue of a sower on top of the capitol. The room behind the doors with two indians on it is the Senate Chamber, which has not been used since the late 1930's. At that time Nebraska became the nation's only unicameral government. The house meets in the room just across the hall.
The state capitol was designed by architect Bertram Goodhue. The building is made entirely out of Indiana Limestone, including the gothic vault where you entered the building. In a band all around the outside of the building are inscribed the names of every country in the state, and over the main portal there is an inscription which reads, "Salvation of the State is Watchfulness in the Citizen." We could stand to take a little more heed of those words, keeping up with the news, and casting informed votes in our elections. The murals which you were showing were all designed by Hildreth Meière I don't know of another state capitol where so much of the art was done by a woman, and it's even more exceptional since it was designed in the 1920's when women generally didn't work outside the home.
I've got to make an admission. When I was a kid, they didn't have the observation deck closed off, and we used to go up there and throw paper airplanes off. We created all sorts of designs and would compete against each other to see whose plane would go the furthest, and whose plane would stay airborne the longest. We would always run down and pick them up off either the capitol lawn, or off the lawn of the governor's mansion. Kinda gives you a hint how long ago that was, since nobody got too excited about some kids coming to retrieve their airplanes. Times have changed.
The building of the state capitol commenced with ground breaking in 1922, and it was completed in 1932 in the depths of the Great Depression.
I guess the reason we don't have a museum in our capitol building is that it is a museum piece in and of itself. It is unique among state capitols, and as you saw, the architectural art in there is really something to behold. We do have a statuary hall where busts of Nebraska's famous people are. Those busts include author Willa Cather, author John Neihart, author Mari Sandoz, scientist Harold Edgerton (who designed the strobe light, and the side scanning radar, among other things) Chief Black Elk, Chief Standing Bear, Chief Sitting Bull, Chief Red Cloud, Chief Crazy Horse, Lawyer and politician William Jennings Bryan, salt magnate and founder of Arbour Day J. Sterling Morton, Founder of Boys Town, Father Edward J. Flanigan, baseball great Bob Gibson, Buffalo Bill Cody, Television Legend Dick Cavett, Dancer Fred Astaire, Football great Gale Sayers, movie star Henry Fonda, Actor Marlon Brando, Civil rights leader Malcolm X, Johnny Carson, National Poet Loriet Paul Kooser, Composer Howard Hanson, Naturalist Marlin Perkins, Ornithologist Paul Johnsgard, social worker and child welfare advocate Grace Abbot, founder of Hallmark Cards J.C. Hall, Entrepreneur, philanthropist, and Auschwitz concentration camp Rose Blumkin, and Native American physician Susan La Flesche Picotte. As you can see, our Native American population was seminal in making Nebraska what it is, and they continue to be to this day.There will definitely be more of them being honored in our statuary hall in the coming decades, but we all hope not too soon.
I'm glad that you came to our city, and I hope you enjoyed your time here.

[beaverc]

You did a great job on your commentary of our little city, I hope while you were here everyone treated you nicely 😀
Yes I had a derby car, we called them soap box racers 😃

[WhittyPics]

"There is no doubt when car racing begun. It was the day they built the second car" ~ Richard Petty

[chrishaas]

Easily my favorite so far . .. Awesome .

[barabaraboyer]

I really enjoyed the Pedal Car display. Thank You.