The Trans-Mississippi Exposition ran from June to October 1898 on land southwest of 16th Street and Ames Avenue in the north part of the then-city. More than 2.6 million visitors
Before there were Disney’s nighttime theme-park parades and the old Orange Bowl evening spectacles down Biscayne Boulevard (remember those, Husker fans?), was the granddaddy of them all in Omaha?