Information: Harry Buford House
Lunch: Bento Box #23
Destination Review: This one has an interesting story behind it. Harry Buford was a prominent African-American businessman who happened to be living in the time of segregation in Omaha. The unwritten rule was if you were black, you couldn’t live west of 30th street. Buford slightly broke this rule by building his house on the west side of 30th street.
Nowadays, the house has a big fence around it, so it was hard to get good pictures.
The Walk: I walked around the block. On the north side of the house, the fence finally ended, and I was able to get a good picture of that side of the house.
I parked in a church parking lot behind the house. The church looked like it used to be a supermarket, and it had a bunch of neat-looking paintings on it.
I had lunch in my car, parked in the church parking lot.
The Lunch: This one wasn’t quite as good as I had hoped. The salad was pretty good, but after all the ham and pickled vegetables, I got tired of all the salt. The orange was a nice dessert, though.
Lunch Ingredient Deals:
Ham: A package of Carl Buddig Honey Ham was 68¢ at Walmart.
Lettuce: A head of green leaf lettuce was on sale for 99¢ at Fareway.
Tomato: 34¢ at Fresh Thyme.
Art Project: Embellished Frame
The meeting was attended by 100 people who sat down to eat in the church. Reverend William Gittos was noted as one of those attending. fence installation ri
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