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My Omaha Obsession
10.29.2020

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01.30.2023

Mysteries of Omaha: 9402 Pacific Street Part Two

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10.24.2022

Mysteries of Omaha: 9402 Pacific Street Part One

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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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    myomahaobsession 10.11.2021

    The Clue of the Crosstown Roller Rink

    • General Investigations

    Jay Malkin wrote in to the Miss Cassette Detective Agency a while back. No longer living in town, Jay was trying to track down his father’s drugstore once at the southwest corner of 24th and Leavenworth and it was in that initial hunt that I

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    myomahaobsession 09.13.2021

    For the Love of 2406 Farnam Street

    • For the Love of

    When I was in high school there were the best little thrift stores dotted all over town, very often in shunned neighborhoods. Aided by a ripped out phonebook yellow page, we would seek to find every single shadowy store, foraging for the

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    myomahaobsession 08.23.2021

    812 South 42nd Street: Mystery Revealed

    • Mysteries of Omaha

    Early on the morning of Tuesday, August 17, 2021 I was startled to see an excavator tearing down our little Morton Meadows Mystery property at 42nd and Marcy. I had noted the strange pile of broken concrete in the front garden days (weeks?)

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    myomahaobsession 08.16.2021

    The Case of Park Avenue and the Mysterious Hospital

    • Magnificent Obsession

    As I had mentioned in Park Avenue Recollection, when I first saw the building at 501 Park Avenue, evidently, I took no great interest in it. Carelessness on my part but there were many eyefuls in the surrounding neighborhood, which claimed my

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    myomahaobsession 05.17.2021

    Park Avenue Recollection

    • Magnificent Obsession

    In high school I thought it peculiar that Omaha’s Park Avenue, perceivably a street of once high standing, was so far removed from its namesake. I had assumed it aspired to New York City’s Park Avenue. Our Park Avenue ran north-south (still

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    myomahaobsession 03.22.2021

    Mysteries of Omaha: Hidden House Part Five

    • Mysteries of Omaha

    I will openly confess, I began to dig for McKinney leads and their Hidden House property with a sort of preconceived inclination. I suppose that was biased of me. My desire was that the newest couple to own 1023 South 96 Street would be Omaha’s

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