Omahans who remembered 1925 realized that they must be getting old themselves. That year the American Legion had come to Omaha 50,000 strong. Fathers locked their daughters in at night; the telephone company had to hire special busses to get its operators safely to & from work, through the cordons of roistering, fanny-pinching Legionnaires. There were crap games on the streets, bonfires in hotel lobbies, impromptu band concerts all night. Sacks of water fell out of hotel windows on hapless pedestrians. No female was too formidably plain to be safe from leers...
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