Category: Trips

John Wayne’s Birthplace

Winterset IA

John Wayne was born in this house in 1907. His birth name was Marion Robert Morrison. He weighed 13 pounds at birth.
His nickname “Duke” was from his family’s Airedale Duke.
Sculpture outside the museum.
Scenes from some of John Wayne’s movies.
John Wayne by Andy Warhol.
Props and costumes from several of his movies. This is from Fort Apache.
The Horse Soldiers
John Wayne’s favorite place was Monument Valley
The Shootist
Military movies, including The Green Berets.
John Wayne tribute guns.
Comic books about the “Greatest Cowboy of them All”
John Wayne’s leisure clothes.
John Wayne’s 1972 Pontiac Grand Safari
John Wayne’s personal black book, turned to the page with Ronald and Nancy Reagan’s information.

Chef Boyardee

Omaha NE

This is a sculpture of Chef Boyardee. Chef Boyardee is currently a division of Conagra, which is based in Omaha. Boyardee’s real name is Chef Hector Boiardi, who came over to America from Italy in 1914, and became a huge success.

Kenefick Park – Union Pacific Locomotives

Omaha NE

These locomotives are two of the largest ever built. Combined, they are 230 feet long, and weigh almost two million pounds. There is much history with the Union Pacific in Omaha dating from the 1860s.
A ribbon of steel binding east to west
Union Pacific shield
Incentives for people to settle along the Union Pacific railroad.