My Omaha Obsession
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My Omaha Obsession

Searching for the City

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eBook - ePub

My Omaha Obsession

Searching for the City

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About This Book

2021 Nebraska Book Award My Omaha Obsession takes the reader on an idiosyncratic tour through some of Omaha's neighborhoods, buildings, architecture, and people, celebrating the city's unusual history. Rather than covering the city's best-known sites, Miss Cassette is irresistibly drawn to strange little buildings and glorious large homes that don't exist anymore as well as to stories of Harkert's Holsum Hamburgers and the Twenties Club. Piecing together the records of buildings and homes and everything interesting that came after, Miss Cassette shares her observations of the property and its significance to Omaha. She scrutinizes land deeds, insurance maps, tax records, and old newspaper articles to uncover a property's singular story. Through conversations with fellow detectives and history enthusiasts, she guides readers along her path of hunches, personal interests, mishaps, and more. As a longtime resident of Omaha, Miss Cassette is informed by memories of her youth combined with an enduring curiosity about the city's offbeat relics and remains. Part memoir and part research guide with a healthy dose of colorful wandering, My Omaha Obsession celebrates the historic built environment and searches for the people who shaped early Omaha.

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Publisher
Bison Books
Year
2020
ISBN
9781496224699
Topic
History
Subtopic
North American History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Foreword by Chris Ware
  9. Introduction
  10. Note to the Reader
  11. 1. The Mysteries of 4025 Izard Street
  12. 2. The Adventure of Twenty-Fifth Street
  13. 3. For the Love of Rose Lodge
  14. 4. The Secret of the House That Moved
  15. 5. The Clue to Bircheknolle
  16. 6. The Quest of Harkert’s Holsum Hamburger
  17. 7. The Curse of the Clover Leaf Club
  18. 8. Password to the Twenties Club
  19. Epilogue
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. About Miss Cassette
  22. About Chris Ware