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Hawkeye wrote:Then the monstrosity known as Midlands Mall (now Omni Center) destroyed it forever and ever and ever.
Hey, I used to love Midlands Mall when I lived on that side of the moat! Very convenient and it reminded me very much of Kings Plaza, the first real mall I ever knew.

Then MOTB killed it. :( I hate to see any business fail, but I think it's poetic justice that MOTB is a soon-to-be inductee in the Dead Mall Society.
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ShawJ wrote:Aside from the second picture I can't recognize any of those locations.
Same with me.  I think the last one is the old Post Office
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Interesting Find in DC the other day...  Looks like a larger version of the old Downtown Omaha Post Office.
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Very nice find.
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skinzfan23 wrote:Very nice find.
Thanks.  But in a way, it was really sad to see it... Know I really know what we lost here!
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Been looking for a shot like this fro a long time!

http://durhammuseum.contentdm.oclc.org/ ... l2/id/3160
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kind of a cool optical illusion going on there with the perspective of the floors as they go up.
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Is that the Woodmen?
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Look at the Hotel Fontenelle in the background too.
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The Omaha building in the fore...
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Brad wrote:kind of a cool optical illusion going on there with the perspective of the floors as they go up.
Looks sorta like a . . . Vortex Tower.
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Found this picture on the twittersphere. First National Center under construction (and Woodmen).

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ShawJ wrote:Found this picture on the twittersphere. First National Center under construction (and Woodmen).

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What intersection would that be?
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RNcyanide wrote:What intersection would that be?
17th and Dodge.

That tall building left of the Woodman is the Medical Arts building that they imploded for the new First national tower.
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Wow. The Medical Arts building is more impressive than I imagined. That is kind of a shame to see it go...
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RNcyanide wrote:Wow. The Medical Arts building is more impressive than I imagined. That is kind of a shame to see it go...
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Yep, not like there wasn't another lot to build a tower on downtown so we could have a 600+ foot tower and a historic 200+ footer that would no doubt be condos or apartments right now.  What we got is a gem though, one of the few we didn't tear down for parking or campus construction.
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The World Herald has a tumblr filled with old pictures from their archives. Quite the collection.

http://worldherald.tumblr.com/
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Now that is cool!! Tumblr is one of my favorite social media sites now since its so easy to keep archives of pictures updated and the blog format makes it very easy to view.
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I just noticed that the OWH is starting to Pinterest some of their photos at http://www.pinterest.com/omahadotcom/old-omaha-photos/
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Cool Find! I don't get on pinterest as often as I should.
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Excellent links. Thanks.
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This photo is Awesome. Early 1950's

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Looking Due East towards the Postal Annex.
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Old Post Office made a list of "19 More Beautiful Structures That Are Now Lost Forever"

http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2014/02/19-mo ... t-forever/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Why exactly did they tear down the post office and where was it located? That library looked like a pretty dangerous place.
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OmahaOmaha wrote:Why exactly did they tear down the post office and where was it located?   That library looked like a pretty dangerous place.
16th and Capitol
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RNcyanide wrote:
OmahaOmaha wrote:Why exactly did they tear down the post office and where was it located?   That library looked like a pretty dangerous place.
16th and Capitol
Between Dodge and Capitol, where the "OId" first national tower is today.

As far as why, I am not sure, it was a bit before my time. According to wikipedia, it was to costly to maintain... Sad!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Post_O ... _Nebraska)
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That whole Wikipedia entry is just sad. Not even 25 years after being completed they were scheming to raze it.
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Found these images of 16th and Farnam:

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Durham Curator ‏@DurhamCurator wrote: Earliest known aerial photograph of #Omaha, March 14, 1919.
Surprisingly good detail!
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AMAZING SHOT:

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Zoom in and the detail is astonishing.
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iamjacobm wrote:AMAZING SHOT:

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Zoom in and the detail is astonishing.
Awesome! Where is it? I am guessing about 18th Street looking north from Pacific???
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I was thinking 17th and Leavenworth.
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iamjacobm wrote:I was thinking 17th and Leavenworth.
Good call!

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Hawkeye wrote: Then the monstrosity known as Midlands Mall (now Omni Center) destroyed it forever and ever and ever.
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I had forgot the Mall had rooftop parking for employees and an attached Office Building. If you built this today and surrounded it with reverse back in angled street parking (because that is the cool way to park). Faced the stores out toward the street and integrated it into the existing pedestrian traffic. Put ground level retail in the parking garage and added a couple hundred apartments this would actually be considered a innovative mixed use urban development.

As long as you don't Bulldoze blocks of existing businesses to build it as they did for this.
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I actually liked Midlands Mall and shopped there quite frequently when I lived over on the Iowegia side. :)
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I actually really liked shopping at Midlands Mall back in the day.

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Check out this from the OWH!

Construction: Landmark Center, ConAgra, Heartland of America Park
Signs: Northwestern Bell on the OWH Building and ConAgra sign on the Central Park Plaza North Tower.
Missing: First National Tower
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My guess is that is from 1989 or 1990 since the Landmark building was completed in 1990.
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