Threatened thunderstorms held off Saturday for the 61st edition of Nebraskaland Days on Parade in downtown North Platte. The parade, founded in Lincoln in 1964, moved west with the annual Nebraskaland Days statewide celebration in 1968. It has taken place every June since except 2020, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced its cancellation.
These Platte Valley Shrine Club members upheld a long, widely spread motoring tradition early in Saturday’s Nebraskaland Days on Parade in North Platte.
TODD VON KAMPEN, THE NORTH PLATTE TELEGRAPH
A North Platte LifeNet medical rescue helicopter team member makes sure his small companion has a bird’s-eye view of Saturday’s Nebraskaland Days parade.
TODD VON KAMPEN, THE NORTH PLATTE TELEGRAPH
Members of the Nebraska Society of the Sons of the America Revolution begin their march in Saturday’s Nebraskaland Days parade at East Fourth Street and Bryan Avenue in North Platte.
Samson Ndege, The North Platte Telegraph
North Platte High School’s Marching Bulldogs flag corps leads their NPHS band counterparts past Bruce Furniture, 209 E. Fourth St., during Saturday’s annual Nebraskaland Days on Parade.
TODD VON KAMPEN, THE NORTH PLATTE TELEGRAPH
A piano player Saturday evokes the North Platte Canteen on this Nebraskaland Days parade float bearing flags and symbols of Sacred Oath and other local veterans organizations.Â
Joan Von Kampen
Sheriff Jerome Kramer waves at paradegoers Saturday.Â
Samson Ndege, The North Platte Telegraph
One of several military vehicles that drove in Saturday's parade.Â
The annual Nebraskaland Days on Parade maintained its reputation for good weather Saturday, avoiding rain in North Platte for the 61st edition since its 1964 founding in Lincoln.
