Miss and Mr. Cassette have been so busy with our family over this holiday weekend that I must beg your forgiveness in getting this out rather late. I hope you have had a good weekend as well. If you do not celebrate Easter, I hope that you were
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Just an update for those no longer in Omaha or who haven’t been by the old neighborhood in a while. If you were like me and ever wondered what was behind all of those happy, hidden trees, now we know. The house faces east and Elmwood Tower
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We did not collectively dream this. It really did exist. The Willy Wonka-ish, incredible, glass sculpture between the escalators on the first floor of Brandeis Department Store at the Crossroads. Plants everywhere, with a red tiled pool. I can
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Miss Cassette received some pressing news early today from dear friends in the Elmwood-Aksarben Neighborhood Association. The Mayberry demo has officially begun. (See Mysteries of Omaha: 5120 Mayberry Street.) Although Mayberry neighbors
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No one would blame you for not knowing about 5120 Mayberry Street or if you might never have even heard of Mayberry Street. As far as east-west streets go in this town, Mayberry is pretty discreet. It gets cut off a lot, it isn’t flashy
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Honestly, if I knew I was going to spend the rest of my life dreaming of Bishop’s Buffet, I would have put up more of a fight when they closed. I don’t remember being notified that they were closing or I would have ordered many, many
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It was a few years before this photo was taken that I remember first going to the Old Market and more specifically, to M’s Pub. My grandmother always seemed to know just the right place to be. I was so young and didn’t know what I
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I will tell you, Miss and Mr. Cassette would eat a lot more ice cream if it was made the way they used to make it and if the ice cream shops could look like this again. (eCreamery is pretty darn cute though). I just love the look of this little
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Having just returned from deep in the musty archives of the W. Dale Clark Library, I am pleased to report that an obsessive, time-consuming search of our dear 1101 S 60th Street building really paid off. (Please see Mysteries of Omaha: Arms
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The 49’r Lounge was a classic, neighborhood bar, a Midtown staple of Dundee by the time I became aware of it. Its simple, cozy sign hung out in front on Dodge for as long as I could remember. It seems to me that the old sign from the