Table of Contents
Introduction 7
1 When Downtown Was the Center and We Didn't "Bowl Alone" The Medical Arts Building 11
Hotel Fontenelle 19
Omaha Athletic Club 25
2 Peony Park and AK-SAR-BEN: Once Places of Suburban Leisure-Swallowed Up by Competition and Urban Growth Peony Park 33
AK-SAR-BEN Racetrack and Coliseum 42
3 Jobbers Canyon, the Omaha Stockyards and Packing Plants: Omaha's Blue-Collar Heritage, or When $3.18 an Hour Was a Good Wage Jobbers Canyon 53
Omaha Stockyards and Packinghouse District 66
4 Gone, but Perhaps Happily Forgotten: The ASARCO Lead Refinery 79
Conclusion. Six Degrees of Lost Omaha and the AK-SAR-BEN Bridge 87
Notes 93
Index 105
About the Author 111