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My Omaha Obsession
10.29.2020

Purchase the My Omaha Obsession Book Online

  • General Investigations
04.04.2022

The My Omaha Obsession Facebook Page Was Hacked

  • Miss Cassette's File
03.21.2022

What Miss Woolworth Wrote

  • Miss Cassette's File
03.07.2022

Not Long for this World: 9955 Bloomfield Drive

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    myomahaobsession 10.29.2020

    Purchase the My Omaha Obsession Book Online

    • General Investigations

    ORDER YOUR BOOK ONLINE To order from University of Nebraska Press (UNP), click here. To order from Amazon, click here.

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    myomahaobsession 04.04.2022

    The My Omaha Obsession Facebook Page Was Hacked

    • Miss Cassette's File

    Friends, this is not an investigation about a great mossy building. Warning! Warning! We have now entered a nightmare world of contemporary times. If you’ve gathered with us for a long while then you already know that I wish my architectural

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    myomahaobsession 03.21.2022

    What Miss Woolworth Wrote

    • Miss Cassette's File

    I found the letter placed on my desk. The envelope had been tidily cut open with a paper knife, its contents, a single sheet, still crisply folded inside. I presumed this was Mr. Cross’s passive way of letting it be known that he’d like to

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    myomahaobsession 03.07.2022

    Not Long for this World: 9955 Bloomfield Drive

    • Not Long For This World

    The Omaha wrecking ball was in full swing last week. As we, lovers of the long purview, intone our well-worn phrases, light our little candles and murmur the custom platitudes of pities, I will admit I can’t really keep up with this pace. The

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    myomahaobsession 03.02.2022

    My Omaha Obsession Celebrates Six Years

    • Miss Cassette's File

    Last night there was the sound like the firework’s crackle and in my startle, a sudden uprush in bed. I had forgotten! I had forgotten My Omaha Obsession’s sixth birthday. Armed with my pillow and blankie, I consulted the ceiling and

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    myomahaobsession 02.14.2022

    New Omaha: 119 North 72nd Street

    • New Omaha

    It is true that these new boxy buildings popping up around town have made fast friends– and enemies too. Like the new girl in junior high, some of us are drawn to novelty and uniqueness. We are refreshed with a new perspective and are

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    myomahaobsession 01.24.2022

    A Long Time Man Has Come Down

    • A Passing Glimpse

    Just the other day I saw that they took down 4679 Leavenworth Street—Jim’s Seek & Save Antiques. Very cool, very weird and most definitely very old. I always kept a watchful, compassionate eye on this one. This structure was one of the

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    myomahaobsession 01.11.2022

    For the Love of Sparkle Moore

    • For the Love of

    Calling all Mister Daddy-Os and Miss Cool Kittens. The drugstore’s jukebox jumpin’ but right now and not later, babies! Gather ‘round the soda fountain and let me tell you a story of Sparkle Moore, the rockabilly singer from Omaha. Just out of

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    myomahaobsession 11.22.2021

    The Last Mile Home

    • Miss Cassette's File

    Please come on in and let me take your coat. Tonight we’re going to have a little vintage pre-Thanksgiving gathering called The Last Mile Home. Firstly, I want to express my thanks to all of you. I am grateful for the personal stories, good

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    myomahaobsession 11.15.2021

    The Real Estate Secret Agent: 3217 South 101st Street

    • The Real Estate Secret Agent

    Architectural detectives, real estate devotees and those still astir at 3:00 am, let us gather. The focus of our obsession today will be the veiled and inspiring 3217 South 101st Street. A work of art in and of itself, this Contemporary

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    myomahaobsession 10.25.2021

    Mysteries of Omaha: The Witch of Hanscom Park

    • Mysteries of Omaha

    Every now and then I receive a letter in the office that just stirs me and gives goosey bumps. The following is one of those electric memos. The writer’s quandary is a mystery for all those Hanscom Park Neighborhood kiddies of long ago, Omaha

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