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 |
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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