southwest magazine

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue May 11, 2010 1:29 pm

Not a rumor, but southwest airlines had a nice 30-page article about Omaha in the May edition of their Spirit magazine. Â tried to post link.

Post by **Brad** » Tue May 11, 2010 1:41 pm

and my pic on page 115
http://www.spiritmag.com/uploads/pdf/ci ... maha_1.pdf

thenewguy · Post by **thenewguy** » Tue May 11, 2010 3:57 pm

Brad wrote:and my pic on page 115
http://www.spiritmag.com/uploads/pdf/ci ... maha_1.pdf

that's a damned good shot. Â It's amazing how still the water is in GLM

TitosBuritoBarn · Post by **TitosBuritoBarn** » Tue May 11, 2010 8:53 pm

Awesome article...except they mislabeled the photo of the building in North Downtown with the mural on it as the Bemis Center.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Tue May 11, 2010 11:39 pm

TitosBuritoBarn wrote:Awesome article...except they mislabeled the photo of the building in North Downtown with the mural on it as the Bemis Center.

I just started it, and already I also see that they labeled the rooftop deck at the Old Market Lofts the "Beebe + Runyan Luxury Lofts". Who edited this thing? Or were they just intentionally making things up as they went. :?

Anyway, it's obviously still great exposure for the city - though it reeks of "tourism bureau" (ie. the Omaha CVB), as opposed to being actual journalism.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed May 12, 2010 1:02 am

Looks to me like an easy way to sell add space. That same article, almost verbatim it would seem, has been written elsewhere a million times.

Big E · Post by **Big E** » Wed May 12, 2010 9:01 am

Not to throw their journalistic integrity under the bus, but the section on housing options contained an interview with some random Joe Schmoe off the street named Clark Lauritzen. Â

Apparently after graduating from Princeton and Harvard Biz Schools and living all over the US, he did some soul searching and moved back to Omaha to settle into a long term career and family life.

No details of the arduous, agonizing process that brought him to that life-altering decision, though.

OmahaJaysCU · Post by **OmahaJaysCU** » Wed May 12, 2010 11:45 am

Not to open up an old can of worms...but on the last document called Sleep they refer to North Downtown and say in parentheses "Local's refer to it as North Downtown." Â I have never heard anyone say this besides the media. Â

Great exposure though.

StreetsOfOmaha · Post by **StreetsOfOmaha** » Wed May 12, 2010 1:37 pm

OmahaJaysCU wrote:Not to open up an old can of worms...but on the last document called Sleep they refer to North Downtown and say in parentheses "Local's refer to it as North Downtown." I have never heard anyone say this besides the media.

Exactly. Nobody Calls it that. It's a filler name that realtors and developers use until the area actually develops a name.

I've always thought it would be sweet to call the area "The Slowdown" after the bar and venue, and after that whole development, which the Saddle Creek guys invested in.

Omababe · Post by **Omababe** » Wed May 12, 2010 2:30 pm

OmahaJaysCU wrote:"Local's refer to it as North Downtown." Â I have never heard anyone say this besides the media. Â

I have.

And I admit to using the term on occasion. LOL, I particularly love to use it when I know somebody will get their {unmentionables} in a wad when they hear the term.

Â Extra points for getting both "North Downtown" and "The Blatt" in one sentence.

(Okay, I'll shut up.)

InTheO! · Post by **InTheO!** » Wed May 12, 2010 7:30 pm

I call it North Downtown since I like the name and it seems to work for it. Didn't you just love how the Sleep section was one big ad for Hilton? We've got tons of better imho places and more original ones. All in all it was a good article, a bit repetitive sometimes.

nativeomahan · Post by **nativeomahan** » Wed May 12, 2010 11:18 pm

StreetsOfOmaha wrote:
TitosBuritoBarn wrote:Awesome article...except they mislabeled the photo of the building in North Downtown with the mural on it as the Bemis Center.
I just started it, and already I also see that they labeled the rooftop deck at the Old Market Lofts the "Beebe + Runyan Luxury Lofts". Who edited this thing? Or were they just intentionally making things up as they went. :?

Anyway, it's obviously still great exposure for the city - though it reeks of "tourism bureau" (ie. the Omaha CVB), as opposed to being actual journalism.

There is never, ever, any "actual journalism" in an airline magazine. Â The two concepts are mutually exclusive.

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Wed May 12, 2010 11:32 pm

nativeomahan wrote:There is never, ever, any "actual journalism" in an airline magazine. The two concepts are mutually exclusive.

Haha, what about SkyMall?

As an aside, I've always wondered what happens to the C students from my college classes.

ricko · Post by **ricko** » Thu May 13, 2010 3:19 am

They go into politics.

Omababe · Post by **Omababe** » Thu May 13, 2010 8:10 am

Seth wrote:As an aside, I've always wondered what happens to the C students from my college classes.

Well, one of them was our President for a while.

OmahaJaysCU · Post by **OmahaJaysCU** » Thu May 13, 2010 11:29 am

Omababe wrote:
Seth wrote:As an aside, I've always wondered what happens to the C students from my college classes.
Well, one of them was our President for a while.

C's? Â I think you're being too nice...

icejammer · Post by **icejammer** » Thu May 13, 2010 11:37 am

Omababe wrote:
Seth wrote:As an aside, I've always wondered what happens to the C students from my college classes.
Well, one of them was our President for a while.

Well, thank God he won reelection, or we'd have had a bozo with an even lower GPA.