My Omaha Obsession: Searching for the City
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 432 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781496224699
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781496207616
- Publisher:
- Bison Books
- Date of Addition:
- 11/01/20
- Copyrighted By:
- Miss Cassette
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Travel
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Foreword by:
- Chris Ware