The Omaha Performing Arts Society owned the building and wanted the lot emptied for surface parking. When I arrived, no one at the library knew what I was squawking about but a quick review of Chris Burbach’s spring time World Herald articles would reveal the Omaha City Planning Department had “not found any historical significance to the building” at 1512 Howard and it was, indeed, being torn down. Admittedly I had been much too busy lately, studying Barbara Stanwyck’s beautiful, symmetrical nose and all things film noir. My heart lifted for a split minute, imagining a resplendent restoration of sorts…a costly plan that had perhaps gone unnoticed due to my avoidance of the local news. Dale Clark Library when I happened upon the old club fenced in, like a wayward jailbird or some unruly cattle pen. I was on my merry way into my newest Byzantine investigation at the W.
