Frederick
Krug was the first major brewer to set up a shop in Omaha, in 1859, founding
the Fred Krug Brewing Company. It was very much a family concern, as the
photos below show. Krug Park,
a popular local amusement park till it closed down in the later 1930's,
(the land it occupied is now a city park called Gallagher Park) was also
named after him. My mother
was there in 1931 or so, when a roller-coaster car went off the tracks
and several of her friends from Technical High School were killed.
She never went on another roller-coaster again.
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Frederick
Krug, President and Founder
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William
Krug, Vice President and General Manager
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The picture below also shows the spectacular view across the river to Iowa.
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The
Krug Park roller coaster
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Admission
Tickets for Krug Park from 1925
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