Monday, September 8, ,1986
Daily Nebraskan
Page 7
The Tourist Information Center:
A good place to discover Lincoln
By Ken DiMaggio
Staff Reporter
The Tourist Information Center, on
the corner of Ninth and 0 streets, is a
good place to find out about Lincoln.
Prior to visiting there, I knew that Lin
coln had a university, a state capitol,
and the world's largest tractor-testing
laboratory. After talking to Ivan "Ike"
Hoag at the Tourist Information Cen
ter, I found out that Lincoln had a
national roller-skating museum, the
fourth architectural wonder of the world,
and a famous TV personality living in a
zoo.
A nationwide poll of architects voted
the Nebraska State Capitol as the
fourth architectural wonder of the world.
Ben the Bear from the TV show, "Grizzly
Adams," lives at the Folsom Children's
Zoo.
Since 1979, the Tourist Information
Center has provided information and
hospitality to visitors to Lincoln. Spon
sored by the Lincoln Chamber of Com
merce, the Tourist Information Center
is open from May 18 to Sept. 7. The
center's hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
every day. Five people work there. Hoag
has worked at the center for six years.
Hoag said that the center is under
stocked presently because it will soon
be closing for the season. But the cen
ter still had plenty of red sweat shirts,
Frisbees and buttons with the logo,
"Lincoln, The Star City," printed on
them.
On the wall of the booth that Hoag
sits behind is a map of the United
States speckled with dots. Visitors to
the center are encouraged to mark
their home city with a red magic
marker. Above the map is a sign that
reads, "Someone from every state visited
us except Vermont."
The center has post cards on a rack.
Below a picture of the Governor's Man
sion was a postcard called, "Dinner
Time at the Farm," which showed a
large multiple-breasted sow being suck
led by half a dozen piglets. But what got
my quarter was "The Star City Fun
Book," a coloring book for kids.
The book has different points of
interest in Lincoln arranged in alpha
betical order for kids to color. Under
the letter "s" you can color tall vases
that look like furniture legs, represent
ing the 20th century collection of
American art at the Sheldon Art Gallery.
Under the letter "z" you can color in
a boy throwing "Screaming Vellow Zon-
kers," made in Lincoln, into his mouth.
And under "y," you can draw yourself at
your favorite place in Lincoln. (Lincoln
has no special points of interests that
begin with the letter Y.
Hoag recalls talking and meeting
with many visitors at Pershing Munici
pal Auditorium. But Hoag said his most
memorable visitor was the famous band
leader, musician and inventor of a
blender that bears his name, Fred
Waring.
"When Fred tried to call a taxi from
Pershing Auditorium, he decided to
walk to his hotel which wasn't too far
away," Hoag said.
"There were no panhandlers, no
drunks, and no one molested me. I
walked peacefully," Waring said to him
later.
And until next May 18, when the
Tourist Information Center reopens,
Hoag will wax his '54 T-Bird, add to his
matchbox toy car collection and see
more of his wife.
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