My Omaha Obsession - Searching for the City (Paperback)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2020
Authors:	Miss Cassette
Foreword by:	Chris Ware
Dimensions:	229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-1-4962-0761-6
Categories:	Books > Sport & Leisure > Travel & holiday > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Local history Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Local history Books > Travel > General
LSN:	1-4962-0761-0
Barcode:	9781496207616

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