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New location for breakfast - location is closer to you?

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hosted by Steve Miller
 Start something NEW with a larger/more choices for breakfast for June - July 2025 😆

Breakfast...
​NEW location.
Closer to retirees homes?

 

 Monday,
June 2nd
 

ALWAYS at 8 a.m. till 9:40
All welcome
1st Monday of each month -  come 🌧  or 🌞.

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FREE Ice water
​COFFEE/ BREAKFAST COSTS $

Much more on the menu to order for your hungriness.

Pay as you leave, services to your table 

Private room with TV.

Trial period maybe for the summer. (Jun/Jul) so far.


​Can continue indefinitely IF ATTENDANCE WARRANTS.

Same time different location.

As they say in real-estate...
location, location and location.  🤔

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EASY to find
I-80 east and exit onto 84th street (north 1 block off of
​I-80).
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Or south of Center on 84th street (east side) 2 blocks south!

Across the street from McDonalds Resturant on 84th street.


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​ To subscribe to these LIMITED EMAIL notices of...
("passed on plant employees" and "food events" only notices)
PLEASE "click" below to signup

Passing on notices and food event

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CLICK here for the page

Found MEDIA and emergency booklets for the 1980's


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Some recently scanned magazines/publications from our past corporate history 
Click on the "AT&T Focus or Journal" or
​AT&T Focus for Com./Info. System employees.

🤔 😁


AT&T Focus Sept 12, 1989 by steve on Scribd

Back in 1989 AT&T with the help of "Zenith Company" and technical assistance of others.  The start of todays TV - "HDTV" and all of its flavors... 720,1080, 4K, 8K AND 16K and ...? along with TV on your iPhone/smartphone, iPads and computers and ZOOM.


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NEW additional scans from a donator in Indiana 👍
Some "AT&T NEWS BRIEFS" a company publication by then AT&T (before spinoff of Lucent - Omaha Works - AT&T people and news). 
Follow this header link ABOVE "CLICK ON IT"
for a start of some interesting news from us - then AT&T.


Just added a magazine called FOCUS from AT&T back in 1989...NICE TO LOOK BACK AT OUR HISTORY.

Just added.  SCANNED old newsletter of:


USE THE SEARCH BOX TOP RIGHT OF EACH PAGE OF MINE, TYPE YOUR SEARCH ON "THIS WEBSITE ONLY"

IBEW Short Circuit April 1977. LOOK UNDER IBEW 1974
WESTERNER newsletter of May 1963. LOOK UNDER 1963
IBEW party May 1978. LOOK UNDER IBEW 1978
WEOMA CLUB NEWS JULY 18, 1989. LOOK UNDER WEOMA

Western Electric Type of Telephone Equipment 1958 with explanations in booklet form
(look them up - interesting reading) LOOK UNDER BOOKLETS


Acquired from a kind manager who kept this history - Gene S.
more to come from his generous donation.
​CLICK ON 25 TO SEE MORE...

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I.B.E.W. # 1974 Union officers/etc. handbook of contacts: 
​From the Iske/Saab era 1960's

I.B.E.W # 1974 HANDBOOK.1960? by steve on Scribd

Front cover images of UNION representative handbooks for 1957 & 1960 - lots of small pages f/b to possibly scan in my next life 🤔.  Don't think so, and they are over 50 years + old at that.  Thank you for V.Pres  IBEW 1974 in the 60's for sharing under the Iske/Saab - Pres./V.Pres. era.

Union Handbooks From 1957 & 1960 by steve on Scribd

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News about breakup in Georgia for 3 companies in 1996.

Click On image to left to acquire a "link" the only copy available...almost 30 years old!


    The Rise and Fall of Lucent Technologies...
"or what we thought and never knew and wondered about at the Omaha Works plant".

THIS is a "long read",
best to download the file (at the bottom of the article) indicated and grab a cup of coffee or glass of your favorite brew?


As they use to say on "LaughIn TV show" - VERY INTERESTING!

It's a 51 page read, and something you might have not known 20+ years ago.

Fall of Lucent Technologies by steve on Scribd

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Another interesting READ from the archives of history  about our former company...

CLICK on the button below for more details of what "WE" invented, with recognition acknowledged by a former Omaha Works employee of Bell Labs/Omaha - Gary Irwin


Top 10 Omaha Works/Bell Labs

It all started in 1984 - the same year of George Orwell's book titled "1984", which was required reading in my nearby High School in 1968 - - - 🤔

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Goliath (AT&T) taken on by David (MCI) the whole story of LONG DISTANCE phone service.



Comments or observation! of this website/contents or errors or notices to post (admin)
contact:
​ Steve Miller - Website Administrator/creator/manager

 stephenmiller@cox.net
landline phone 531- 466 - 4213
if no answer - PLEASE leave a message


"Passed on names" - are easy to find.  Type in last name or year you think they passed away.  Results are then searched FROM my site (not internet) and displayed for your choice of what to view. 

​Ex. type 2021 in the BOX top right of all screens, PRESS ENTER, or if you know the last name Ex. SMITH or any last name - HIT ENTER.  Displayed for your viewing are possible "pages"ON my website page ONLY (not the massive internet possible results).

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  Images BELOW of the 2024 Annual extended Staff
managers and engineers dinner at:

German American Society
October 9, 2024
​CLiCK On image below to see those photographs for 2024
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To receive information and details of the 2025
Ex.Staff/Managers/Engineers/Department Chiefs/Supervision or SG grade employees ...
Contact information: CLICK on name for email contact:
Chairman:  Doug Thoms ... 
Staff Dinner Chairman 
Treasurer/Secretary:  Jim Grabenbauer ...Staff Dinner Secretary/Treasurer


A FUTURE Event... Probably in October 2025? Location TBD

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The innovation company with many names- Western Electric, AT&T, Lucent and Avaya "CLICK" on image above for short musical video.


  🤔  Over 7 years ago, a former cable shop employee (Mike B. captured on a digital camera the "destruction" of cable related manufacturing tools used in 50 building.  In 2019 and probably before, this building (now Millard Lumber) with over 50 years of "best in the Bell System products and cable" lost all of internal machines. I remember cable the size of your fist and newer cable products were created here with a 24 hours coverage and most likely some overtime of weekends - (I know,  I started in cable shop - 50 building 3rd shift.)   I wonder HOW Crossbar/30 building got cleaned out for future "Ford Storage"? ...anyone got any images of that time?  Click to enlarge an image - ENJOY - Steve Miller

History for the great people who transferred from the....
Baltimore Works
to the Omaha Works in the 80's - Saved by AT&T Archives!


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2023 Managers luncheon

Past luncheons "NOT" at the DC Center. 
​Included are Omaha Works Retirees/Former Employee luncheons

 The 2018-2022 Omaha Works Retirees/Former Employees 
luncheons at the German American Society 
Loyal people who attended for many years

No more quarterly events due to 2023 price increases!

Managers luncheon - many years

2025
departed friends/co-workers

April

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       Worked as machinist for 39          years

James Joseph Silknitter
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  Worked as tool maker till 2005

Raymond F. Herek
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      worked in the office

Evelyn B. Crinklaw
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  WORKED IN THE TESING AREA IN 30          BUILDING
  UPADTE ON FAMILY INFORMATION ON THE LINK

William Stanley Romer
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Bob worked for many years on the cable side with New Product Introduction.

Robert A Taylor

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DEATH on Jan. 10, 2025 
LATE NOTICE-LATE NOTICE

Marvin J Anderson

March

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    employed in the trades division

Charles "Chuck" Robert Allner
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    Legal Secretary for I.B.E.W Union       (1974)

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Worked in trades as a carpenter

Bert Bessey
Marguerite (Margie) Clair Urzendowski White
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       Worked in                              merchandising in
       the late 60's






Dick was a Senior Engineer and eventually to Plant and Factory department manager

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James Edward Villwock
Richard “Dick” Runnels Sr.

February

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     Worked in Moulding in 30                 building

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department manager in cable shop - 50 building 

Wayne L. Andersen

LATE NOTICE...
Ronald C. Micek

January

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​Donna Joyce (Michel) Schwenck

 2024 December

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    Worked in cable plant.

​Bernard "Bernie" Nekuda
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    Think he worked in cable shop,              where his brother (deceased) Erwin      worked?

​Ivan J. Rueschhoff
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Harold worked in the protector area in 30 bldg for many years as a level 3 layout operator. ​


LATE NOTICE - LATE NOTICE
Harold Arnold Drake
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Shirley Tate
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Tom was a supervisor in cable 70-80's then transferred to Phoenix Lived in Glendale, AZ.

LATE NOTICE-LATE NOTICE
Thomas Joseph Hazuka
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    George worked in the cable                          plant,insulate area

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Sharon worked in the cool room of
​50 building

George Henry Addison
Sharon A. Swingholm

November

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  LATE NOTICE - LATE NOTICE.
ENG. WITH QUALITY ASSURANCE
 

Allyn Keith Dusek = Al Dusek
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   Darrel was a Production Control              Analyst.

Darrel David Sudduth
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     Jim was a Tester in Cross-Bar           Frames in 30 Bldg.
     prior to being transferred to the Cable Plant insulating
 
 

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Larry was a level 2 in cable plant.  Unknown duties in that location.

Larry Joseph Kriegler
James Walter Goodhard

October


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     Dave worked in cable shop...
     not sure where?

David Dean Halverson​
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LATE NOTICE, LATE NOTICE
Shirley Jean Barnes
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Many positions with company, the Bio page has them all

Bonnie Jean Walker
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  Manager of Trades         and cable shop

​Earl Patrick “Pat” Kealy

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Worked in QA 30 Bldg.

Engineer in 30 building - moulding area
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​Jerald Leo Golmanavich

Helen Peace Kirk​

September

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​Worked in Big Switch area?​

Sharon Christiansen

Janet L. Swift

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   Michael worked as an engineer for Western               Electric/AT&T/Lucent and retired in 2000 after 
    38 years.

Michael MacVittie
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    Informed she worked in 30 building

Virginia M. Heitman

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Jo Ann Hrabik


August

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Daniel G.Schrader
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​Andrew J. Simpson

July

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    OBIT says....retired as a management employee             after 37 years

Carl A. Greunke

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​James M. Sweeney

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      worked in plant as engineer

​Lycurgus C. Curry, Jr.

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      worked in plant level 3 machine operator

​Larry Edward Gosch

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Herbert W. Parks

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Eugene G. Chleboun

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​William H. Kinsley, Jr.

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Unknown service date or where worked in plant?















Unknown service date 
Cabel shop engineer

April

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   Unknown service date.  

Ava L. Lind

June

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        Unknown service date.  ​

James J. Peroutka, Sr.
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      Unknown service date. A proud             member of the Buffalo Club at the         plant.

Alta Lee (Veatch) Morris
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     Unknown service date.Think Ed was an         electrician? Think Ed was electrical or           test set maintenance in the plant. 
    Maybe he rode around on those 3
   wheel  bicycles?

Ed {Edmund) C.Bosak

May

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Servcie date 8/28/69 - 2/9/95

Nancy L. Pegg

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Unknown service date.

George A. Wischmann 

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Unknown service date.
​Supervisor

Vivian R. Moore.
​some knew her as:

Vivian Wiblishouser.

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 Earl Allen Miles

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Rose Marie Dumas. LATE NOTICE-LATE NOTICE


March


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He led many teams in Management - Cable shop
and the service center at 60th street-Omaha
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Unknown service date.
Worked in plant trades (pipe fitter) and waste treatment plant.


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Merle F. Dinslage

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​    or where she worked.

Ruth Lake
 LATE NOTICE
Dec. 2023 funeral
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Unknown service date.    
She worked in Materials Management.

Keri J. Hall
LATE NOTICE
Mar. 2024
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   Worked in Cable       in the 70's


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Worked in Cable shop
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February

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   11/13/58 - 5/28/92
   service date. 
​   trades-electrician?

Lyle Wayne Rockhold
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Unknown service date
Eugene was a tool maker

Eugene L. Drvol


January

LATE NOTICE - Service in MAY

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  Her service date was 10/61 - 11/91


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Ed worked at one time in cable forming and?
​"Unknown service date".

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"CLICK" on name or image to see details and OBITUARY DETAILS.

Thomas was an engineer with a service date of 11/30/66 - 5/10/96

Died January 1, 2024

* obituary update
​with more details

Died January 17, 2024

​Keith, was a supervisor in trades.
Service date 12/31/59 - 11/13/96 His son also employee - engineer (Kevin)

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Jack was on the E-Board and worked in the cable plant.  ​SERVICE DATE: 4/1/57 - 7/13/90
​DIED JANUARY 11, 2024
John served as a IB.E.W. Union steward. John passed away on January 11, 2024
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Evidently the PAST email notification (invitation only) of 400+ emails which contained information about plant employees who have "passed on", and other item, has "ceased operations" since that persons death on July 29, 2023.  Therefore you wil NOT receive notices as you did in the past from HIM !

#.   #. 
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PLEASE inform all those who have Plant employee friends who know of a former employees death to contact me.
​ 
My site is MUCH better than using Facebook, where I provide obituary/service information ...Viewable anytime.

​
My email and phone number is a the top of the page.
 
If no answer, PLEASE leave a voicemail message.


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Click on"TRANSISTOR" for the rest of the story - PROUD I worked for THIS company 


2023 notices I'm aware of...

October 2023  late notice...

November 2023 

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Charles F. Kriesel
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Chuck was a tradesman at the plant...unknown service date

LATE notice ...November 2023

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Bruce worked in cabinets.

December 2023

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Norma Golden

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Joann Mae Musco - Dec. 10, 2023


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David and his wife Barbara worked at the plant.  ? service date

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Service date: 10/6/69 - 6/12/98 plant trades - electrician 

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LATE NOTICE FROM
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Remember these events from WORLD/U.S.A. 
"click here to find more "remember when?
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Found from many newspapers clippings by J.Gosch
​articles cut from paper to share...  

CLICK here for more NEW from the past articles

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Corporate News from Omaha and National newspaper articles in the local paper (OWH).
Click on year below to review what articles in the paper I found.

1976
1986
1996
2001 the year the website administrator/creator retired

All articles have their original scanned files attached, available for download if needed or printout for your enjoyment.
Maybe more years "IF" ambition permits?


Some of our Corporate History of "Ma Bell"...best thing on earth - we make the things that make communications work"



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Click on the last name to get "details as provided by the funeral service for the obituary"

November 2021

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David Vojtech
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Jerry Fitzgerald
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Garry Thoms
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Donald Hotchkiss






Vojtech

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Hotchkiss


2021 RETIREES passed away in late November & December:​
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Jim Furlong
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Alice Gilbert
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Robert Fitzsimmons 
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Mauricette  Albin
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Mary Weberg
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Gary L. Brandon
​LATE NOTICE
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E.John Sharples





Furlong





Gilbert





​Fitzsimmons






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Sharples


Click on "NAME of passed on" or "button" below for more details for any employee listed here.
Passed on former plant employee

 2022 - January

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​Dankof

Lowell Dankof
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Paul "Dick" Jenkins
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Ronald Scropp
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LATE POSTING
James P. Phillips


​2022 April

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Melvin "Mel" Roth
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Paul Quandahl 
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Judith Carstens
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Roger Carstens

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Stancavage



Sally Stancavage 
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​Rodrigues

Nellie Rodrigues
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Rodney Mach
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Betty Jean Clanton

2022 September

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Patrick Wingate​


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Mach







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Victor J. Sedlacek



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October 2022

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Sandra M. (Schovanec) Ferrucci
 LATE NOTICE

Schovanec -Ferrucci


November 2022

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William McCormick
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Carol Ann Fuksa
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Shirley Dixon

December 2022

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James Pedersen
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Amy Weir
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Joanne Salkeld
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Emilie J Volquartsen
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John Lynch
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Ramute Mitchell
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Margaret Lockett
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Gary L.Brandon
​(limited info)

April 2023

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Robert A.Rush
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Richard J. Ciecko
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Jack Alden Walker





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Orville E. Kollars
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James E. Black

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Lela Ruth Stewart
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Glenn W Swoboda

June 2023

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Larry E. Allison, Sr.
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Connie M. Carlson
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Gino A Betti Jr.
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John F. Kmieciak, Sr.
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LATE NOTICE- Service has passed for:
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Robert E & Jeanne E. Taylor

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Thomas "Tom" J. Miller
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very limited info on
Jody Gorden
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Michael "Mikro" Dean Crow
LATE NOTICE

July 2023

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James Daniel Kajdasz
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Louis Arterberry Jr.

THIS MAYBE his photograph  ​UNSURE ?
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Marjorie Lessig (Girnus)
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Mary Lou (Poulson) Sanford

September 2023

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CARL R. CAMPBELL, SR.
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Gallup, Charles "Chuck" 
One of many interest...

Was a "Karaoke" and more...
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Norma  J.  Hebard
LATE NOTICE - not my fault, for I know not WHEN employees have  "passed on".  

If you wish to notify plant employees or visitors to my website...CONTACT ME - first by phone or email (INFO at to of  HOME page) ....with details of death and notices (funeral facilities)


Some might wish to attend a live funeral event and visit with family and friends!

October 2023

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Cecil Ward
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Edward Elmer Allen
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Robert Douglas Barnes
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Lucille Windels
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Louise Ann Nissen

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Arlo Olsen
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Paul Kennedy
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Rosemary Clair
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LATE NOTICE
Emilie Jeanne (Smithberg) Volquartsen





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Kennedy






Clair






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​Vlcek
Linda Vlcek
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Thomas Lichliter
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JoAnn Torson
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George Elafros
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James Wood Sr.
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Emily "Skip" Vencil
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Virgil Jochimsen
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LATE NOTICE
Dean I. Davis
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Frank John Berrent Jr.
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John R. Winchester
 

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Robert Roh


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Hi Soon Miller
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Nicholas Johnson
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James Johnsen
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Dean Mason
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Larry P. Schlautman






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Roger Storm
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LATE posting....
Charles T Stanley
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Connie Irene Boardman




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Boardman


2022 August

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Ronald Gene Erickson
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Marvin Seitz
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Margery Anne Warren (Bull)
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Thomas Pluta
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Donna M. Hutzell
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​Kalasek

Herminia Kalasek
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Hollis Cook
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William Utecht
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Jesse  Cardenas, Jr.



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Donald Gould Sr.
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Marvin Rohwer
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Gerry Callahan
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​Welchert

Thomas Welchert
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​Olderog

Robert H. Olderog
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​Rohe

Arthur "Art" W. Rohe

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​Nicholson

Lyle R Nicholson

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John E. Lovely
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​Arnone 

Edward V. Arnone
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Robert Lee "Bob" Dobbs
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​Lange

Roberta Lee Benitz Lange (Bertie)
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Kenn A. Schutte
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Gerald D. Jones
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John Charles Ahlborg
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David Joseph Gurney
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Norma L.Hartung

March 2023

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John R. Symonsbergen
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Charles "Chuck" C. LeCrone
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Russell Bell
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Diane Lynn Walker Keller
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Albert Anthone
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Carolyn J Hodges
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Robert Harry Gale

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Dennis J. McNulty
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Donna L. Cunningham
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Donald D Sitzmann
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Jeanette Marilyn Blair
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Sherry Van Nortwick
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Nancy Elizabeth Teague
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Kenneth C. Watkins
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      Kalina


Click on below for images of many food/social/corporate events

Some of the images are from previous luncheons!

Location for all 2019 events of Omaha Works Retirees/Former Employees luncheon organized by:
​ Steve Miller - retiree

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Images of Event # 1 March 25, 2019
Images of Event # 2 June 25, 2019
Images of Event # 3 September 17, 2019
SPECIAL - Saturday 2019 Event on Oct. 5 2019
Images of Event # 4 on December 3, 2019
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2021 luncheons of the OmahaWorks Retirees/Former Employees images


The names and positions of top telecom/technology communications and internet CEO-CFO-CFT and others
​CLICK ON TEXT to enlarge

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Images are from front/back T-Shirts that were bought or handed?

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 Display Center beginnings, Pioneers HOT TRIKE, and EW&C cable division back in pre breakup time (1984) Omaha specific new on pages 22-32

From the archives
Omaha Works makes the corporate internal publication news in 1981

Articles about the plant and "corporation", and SPECIAL back in 1981 about Wire and Cable division...in the publication

for iPad and computer download
​ click on box to the right
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W.E. 1981 May -June 1981 by steve on Scribd

Phones I never remember being available at the Phone Center or some of the sales in the auditorium?  Some have obvious "descriptions"   ENJOY -  from the ​https://telephone-museum.org/

CLICK On graphic below - (Elephant)
​ to remember, non plant things ... many many years ago.

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  • From A friend in the broadcast TV world - click to see what I/HE have found...Updates every Wednesday?


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  Where are these people these people now ?​
Badges of some of the plant employees running for Union office positions, these appear to be in the 70-80's.
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Also some corporate/political of last decade..these are not all that were seeking Union officer positions. These were at the luncheon and donated for website use - ARE there more?
These were courtesy of Ernie W.

ONLY here ... 
"Source and Resource"
A location for all known deaths notices to ​stay accessible, forever!
​

Additionally a Omaha Works plant history and more ...
Painted on my office door in the lower level of 20 building...Rm 5A MEDIA ROOM.
- - - It's probably still there! - - -
SOURCE AND RESOURCE


in Kansas City - the Western Electric plant which started in 1961 made vacuum tubes, the best in the world with the famous 300B model.  Omaha's with John Heindel (plant manager) had golfing tournaments with  Bill Kadereit, (plant manager in the 90's).  Sometimes Omaha won, sometimes Kansas City won. 
Enjoy this W.E. short video on how the BEST vacuum tubes in the world - all from Western Electric/Bell Labs and the then AT&T.

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CLICK on name above to watch corporate video...

​​For iPad users or to download a file directly to your computer....use the file name next to this line of text 
omaha_works_1958-1982.pdf
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Omaha Works 1958-1982 by steve on Scribd

Our named heritage of great companies in:
Omaha Nebraska from 1956-2000 +
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Over 14 years ago . . . in 2011
​Who would have envisioned
OUR history in this way?
​The vision came true...in this World Herald article

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Way back in the late 50's ...this was going on in Millard, NE.   
Were you watching the construction of Omaha Works?
Here are some found photos by John May
...ENJOY


🤔 A important new feature in working status 😀
(it won't cost or ask anything of you, and you can help!)

 FOUND ...forgotten 2020 & 2021 passed on employees
Check with the search by typing in  "2020" or "2021" into the search box


Now you can:
1. Search by 4 choices...
a. First name - ex. Robert - Bob
b. Last name search - ex. Anderson,Herman
​c. Month search (3 letters only) ex. Jan, Aug
d. Year search ex. 2007 or 2021

...sorry only "one" search "parameter" per inquiry.
​

There may be many names on a page or one name 
 I can add images or maybe a comment (where they worked/supv. eng. or production associate) after the notice to "this sites pages"?

I have "passed on" from...
2004 - 2023
​sorry - nothing before 2004
​

IF more information is needed, email or phone me.
stephenmiller@cox.net

CLICK on the link to the right for instructions

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passed on employee of the plant - name search

I search the newspaper and internet and social media,
​ and make them searchable, and always SAVED! 
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Some images are from a unmaintained former retiree social websites


 A drive around the back on October 2021 and to the west side using the backroad ending up in 50 bldg. parking area

LOOK ING
FOR!

If going to one of my monthly schedule breakfast...bring those ITEMS to the breakfast

Items might be: video tapes, photographs, newsletters - (union or plant) or corrections to website or general observation or anniversary images every 5 years? 
Anything the plant employees received.


(I'm unable to answer your retiree
benefits or medical questions for Union or Management)


To contact the website administrator - creator - retiree 
Omaha Works -  Steve Miller 
call home # 531 466 4213 
​leave message OR
​email:  stephenmiller@cox.net


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100 years ago +
Operator Please
A History note of "Ma Bell" ... and Western Electric

Women in Ma Bell History = 1920's
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Telephone. Museum -Boston, MA.
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"OMAHA WORKS" Manufacturing facility in Omaha, Nebraska
(under the corporate names of:  Western Electric, AT&T, Lucent and Avaya)
This is a visual collection of photographs/articles, newsletters, video and etc. ​of our history from 1957 till 2000+

Below is a photograph from the 1960's   - It has everything of a 1960's
​ Western Electric - Omaha Works facility started with ...


​A ​silver painted water tower and the name "Western Electric"
 on it,
​a tall "brick smokestack", our name of
"Western Electric" on the red brick of the office (20) building 
(at one time the name was backlighted in the evening with an individual light for each letter)
​and the "Omaha Works" across the original white marble front.
​It's still the same building today with new tenants in buildings #'s 50, 20, 30 and 60 buildings and more.
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All trademarks of the same "general corporate history and spin offs" and names of the Omaha Works in Omaha, NE. 

Website statistics about OmahaWorks.net
Administered by Steve Miller - management retiree in 2001
(then staff Video producer - A/V and staff photographer)

Here are some facts: for 2023
1.5 million "hits"
over
12,833 + "unique visitors" 

This website started on December 8, 2012 
 THIS website is dedicated to the continuation of memories, experiences and successes of the former employees of the
Omaha Works of Omaha, Nebraska and its 50+ year history as a MAJOR local and state top employer from 1957-2004

One of many manufacturing and supply units of the of the ​ "Bell System"  till 1996 after a AT&T's spinoff ​to a new company called Lucent, who then - later offered a spinoff of their own named Avaya.
.....​

​In 2000 - 2011 Avaya existed for a few years and then a company called (Commscope) purchased Avaya and its patent assets.  In 2011 Commscope closed the facility with the remaining property sold to Omaha Works Ltd. and a private investor.

This Western Electric facility and other W.E plants were producing telephone equipment for the U.S.of A.
 
More info request below (looking for more materials - see my wishes below...)

HOME - top of THIS page

In 2004, ​A North Carolina company purchased Avaya's Omaha facilities and the Omaha Works plant

READ the History and Acquisitions ...and how corporate (Avaya) sold the patents - the rest is 15+ year history

Commscope History
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NEW owner bought from Avaya in 2004       -    and its local subsidiary CSMI
the Omaha Works-Omaha,NE.                            Omaha Plant closed in 2011

New images from our former Omaha Works PLANT from the road ...
​December 2019

Some changes in parking lots and new tenants...

More frontage road-Dec 2019
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1956's ? motion picture 16mm film only (added in general music).  It has your
"gold painted shovels" of dirt flips and 1950's cars and children (future employees) somewhere on the new property - maybe at 120th St. ?
Start of many careers and more.

Other Video and info. CLICK HERE

Other video image of the plant are on this page:

More old B&W video and other videos of plant

It started in the "Omaha Shops" of Western Electric in downtown Omaha, NE. in late 40's to early 50's.

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More images of W. E. Omaha Shop in downtown Omaha
It also started in the "Lincoln Shops" of Western Electric in downtown Lincoln, NE. in the late 40's to early 50's.
Lincoln Shop of Western Electric article
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Image of FIRST Nebraska-Lincoln plant in 2012 versus 1948
courtesy of ONE of the last employes to work at the Omaha plant  - Roy Cook

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 These were on the wall of the lower level of 20 building at the east entrance = downstairs - SHOWS room location and number of all room in the lower level
​CLICK to enlarge an image

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Bigger scanning capacity  ...MORE full page scans of those LARGE TABLOID size newspapers.
More like this... click on the union page for 1960-1979 IBEW newsletters
IBEW Union papers 1960-1979

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 This was in 1968
​(I ONLY have one newsletter from that year) ...are there more out there - SURE there are ... they just have to be located and scanned into this site for enjoyment by all.


​Unsure of the speaker in the company auditorium?  Could be a corporate president, or a Savings Bond drive speaker (flags in background) or....visiting dignitary from ?

Here are some more images of the file called Westerner 1968 ... as always you can email me: with question or observations.  stephenmiller@cox.net

1968 items button

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Toys for Tots Drive of the 60's MORE...
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JUST added a January 1957 page...
from old newspaper clippings from Omaha, NE. about the Omaha Works plant under Western Electric and other names from the 50's and now 60's and ?
...CLICK on button below

1950's + Newspaper articles about Omaha Works

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This spot on the property on the back access road east of the water tower use to make a lot of noise and recover...(A PRECIOUS METAL) ?

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New area...more unloading and loading docks and FRESH concrete
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Building 17 (formerly)... new parking lot - loading dock

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Ditch filled in with dirt/gravel? and NEW tenants
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​ ...This building "out back" use to be Bldg. 18 cardboard storage building, now it remains with new tenants?

CLICK BELOW to find more and explanation?
of this missing and to my knowledge...
"the only building removed" from the property by contractors?) Hope to find a before photos?
AUGUST 2020 PHOTOGRAPHS

 .... Many b&w photographs/negatives scanned and 1957 construction
color slides - our construction history


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Guessing on the late 60's or early 70's Tall brick stack was removed (left side image)
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CABLE SHOP - Stranders of large multi/pair cables. Then to be protected with steel/foil and plastic outer coating or other materials for the customers needs at the jacketing lines
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famous MARBLE front - original installation in the 60's
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Think the car is older than ME,? before 1950?

Click on golf ball for details....Why it was cancelled after 18 years

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WARTS 2020 Golfing Schedule cancelled
Now your on your OWN 
for golfing schedule and courses

Audio comes in about 50 seconds...watch the end where the EARTH movers start.  Think this is from the angle of 120th Street looking west?

My new source of some recent additions to image scans
tiny images from 35mm b&w contact sheets...!


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100's + ADDED ...A LOT MORE  . . .   images are from a 35mm contact sheets ... WITH A IMAGE SIZE OF ONLY of 1" x 1.4"  thumbnail size...(two postage size stamps) image size and were NOT made larger...so I have a lot of these 35mm contact stips to look at?
35mm contact sheet b&w scans... most anything
 Someone took the time to do this...why not included - plenty of scanning.
It's not the best, yet something - ENJOY

now - had someone made each image into a 4x5 prints --hindsight !!

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For details of this AND MANY OTHER booklets - click on button below

Booklet page of company produced items...


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To find out where these people and more in 1968 fit into the IBEW and Western Electric history... CLICK on their image.

Frontage of our once famous MARBLE front from 1972

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NEWLY ADDED - more color / b&w images - click here

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Almost - 40 years ago...the buildings are still there, yet some proportions of GREEN have now changed and new tenants added into the buildings!

Also click in the above image for a link to many internal COMPANY phone books - see who you knew in the office and management or engineering support


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what the property of 60 building and land sold for..
CLiCK here to read article of 2005 sale

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Donations accepted to maintain and update this website.

Make a check payable to Steve Miller for any amount.  I have no corporate sponsorship to maintain my yearly cost of $xxxx.00. 

A labor of love after 13+ years is costing more cash to keep the website going.  I know you could be proud of a generous donation to keep it going till I pass on.
​ The many remembrances of the plant, that no other plant can match !
Yet reality is setting in   Email me at:  stephenmiller@cox.net for where to mail a check.  Thank you in advance

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A new page of ...many HISTORIC and interesting things..Lots of old phones and information about the telephone workings and devices
As usual 
click on above graphics for the link



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MORE TO COME...?
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FOUND and saved...
Hand drawings used in or shared in other publications.   Artist was an employee of many fine talents in drawing and contributions to the company and the I.B.E.W. union. 
​CLICK on graphics to see what I have scanned.



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To find out WHAT these I.B.E.W. # 1974 Union Presidents had to say in the 1980's and BEYOND fit into the IBEW and Western Electric - AT&T history... CLICK BOX below
Union Papers 1980's

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PRE 1996 ? 
When we only had one GOLDEN BALL topped flag pole.  And we had a different corporate flag to put under the national flag - (what happened to the state flag)? 
​ For aerial images of that time...ONE flag pole, marble frontage and no 60 building ...  click on text description below
1995? aerial images ONE flag pole, marble front
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Probably from the FORMER molding area, or as many called it "PINK PALACE"- was an office area in the late
1990' era of 30 building.
This image is of...Cross Bar assembly or coils or relays or FRAME or wiring  in the 60's and beyond?
​CLICK ON PHOTOGRAPH to enlarge

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With a regional Service Center and a regional Telephone operating company called ...
Northwestern Bell Telephone Company which served the states of the upper Midwest including Iowa, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, and Nebraska and headquarters located in Omaha, NE.

"Omaha Works" manufacturing plant was established in 1958 with the name that Western Electric Corporation assigned, the "Omaha Works".
An Experienced Corporate Managerial/Staff and local I.B.E.W. #1974  & I.B.E.W. #1614 Union leadership led the company to many "first of ISO 9001 recognition and Malcolm Baldrige Recognition and many more awards.
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MY  - W I S H   L I S T   F O R   M O R E   I N F O R M A T I O N ​
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Contained within ....is a VERY "LARGE" collection newsletter and images and, yet an incomplete accounting of internal newspapers, videos, photographs and social and corporate events of our local and some national corporate history, of ​the employees of 50 years.
Other information and facts are appreciated about our "history"!
And if found - other W.E. and related plants, service center and other items of general interest.


Main items of interest from the Omaha plant - but not limited to:
(Publications): The Westerner, Headliner and Connect company newsletters, AT&T, Lucent Magazines, W.E. Corporate publications, WEOMA newsletters, Employee Involvement articles, internal sub branch newsletters, videos, photographs of any kind and product literature or handout at trade shows, and external newspaper articles about the plant and people and more, or by the...​
UNION CHAPTERS of: I.B.E.W. - (INTERNATIONAL BROTHERHOOD OF  ELECTRICAL WORKERS)
LOCALS: 
 # 1974  and  # 1614 newsletters.
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If you have any material, how trivial to share, I only ask to view, scan it and incorporate into this website for all to see. All items are returned to the owner.  ​​​I'll meet with you and arrange for a pickup of materials if feasible?
531 466 4213 or by email - 
CLICK here to email me directly.


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Omaha Works manufacturing facility in Omaha, Nebraska from the 1960's ... CLICK to ENLARGE


HOME = top of this page
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A grand meeting of ... Omaha Chamber of Commerce
Held in a prestigious large hall somewhere in Omaha ...maybe at the Omaha Stockyards?   

Count the head table 20 "important people" sitting.
​If you know where this meeting of 100's in attendance was at ... email me:  stephenmiller@cox.net
(image was rolled and folded-sorry for  results, yet no one took care - its over 60 years old) 

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Retrieved from that OLD cabinet.  Think some are from a Miss WEOMA, office staff, engineers, scholarship awards and unknown who they are... some names are on the bottom if I know 

Retrieved from a that lost cabinet.... 2 - 16mm B&W films of the initial discussion and public relations scripts for the announcement of the Manufacturing location of Omaha, Nebraska's for the
Western Electric's - ​ Omaha Works new plant 
STILL THERE AFTER 60+ years  


There are booklets made about this initial construction and facts at  THIS link (click here)
Titles of interest at {This WE 1963 and 1956 Formal Ground Breaking} plus others plant booklets!

Audio comes in about 50 seconds into the clip...
​watch the end where the EARTH movers start
Think this is from the angle of 120th Street looking west?
Practice reading of script by?
​Probably - Western Electric President at that time?
6 minute single projector slide show of 35mm color slides dated 1957 - NO SOUND
 No control cropping of images - Y
et most who know the facility can figure out what buildings, location and landscaping has occurred. ENJOY

No sound on either of these slide shows...

RECOVERED from same cabinet...DO you have anything like this? 
If attending the NEXT luncheon, bring anything about the plant-our history ...be it newsletters, Union News, strike information or newspaper clippings...
or ​contact Steve at his email address:  stephenmiller@cox.net or phone number (531 466 4213)
on the NEXT luncheon event registration form ...
BRING them to the event ...it is appreciated.


The B&W image {below} with the "WESTERN ELECTRIC" on the front of the building (20 bldg.) probably in mid 60's
Maybe taken in spring of 1960's (because of 1957 Chevy Bel Air in parking lot), the trees - no leaves and snow melt?
​and the "OMAHA WORKS" is not yet on the white "stained" marble frontage covering across the top.

The faded color image - again probably in the mid 60's  - complete with 1 flagpole and a very tall brick "smokestack" near boiler house - also "no" parking lots in front for office staff in 20 building.


Click on IMAGE to enlarge either photo

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 With all the recent images of the plant and property I've taken over the years - I'll try to organize then into new "links" in the very near future - let me consider some display options and organizational plans to review to make it easy
​as one stop viewing?  It is a big plant and some minor additions/enhancements have happened 


New images recovered from ...
​60 building - 1995 ?

Also called - Global Procurement Center GPC
​(60 building)

IMAGES from a lost storage box recently uncovered by a former plant engineer/trades employee

Yet there is an article about 60 building construction at
​NOVEMBER HEADLINER ISSUE 1996

1996 Newsletters about 60 building
ALWAYS looking for more like this
CLICK on below image to enlarge
​The beginnings of (60 building)
​Global Procurement Center

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From a unknown of file cabinet... 
NEW images of our past history on these pages...


CLICK for EW&C - 50 building
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CLICK for GPC - 60 building MORE NEW 
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​CLICK for GENERAL new people images

CLICK for SECURITY OFFICE 1960's

CLICK for Sewage Treatment 1969?

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1966 Map of how to get from ? (Western Electric plant) - Think it was for airport corporate travelers/executives to take roads to get to Omaha Works.  YET a 1966 MAP
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Fueling up with Jet Fuel for a heavy lift to the flat roof of 30 building..
MORE images by click of the MORE images
MORE images

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WHAT is/was it....?  Still there behind boiler house/trades area
​CLUE..it had water inside and cooled off 50 building
More images

Did AT&T predict the future ?
​In 1958 Omaha Works was a Western Electric Corporate manufacturing facility until 1984 and AT&T till 1996 -  THEN Lucent started as a
​spin-off...and ...!
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​Yet our heritage and part of the "Ma Bell" System and Bell Labs saw some future ideas...happen ?

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Click on "You Will"


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W.A.R.T.S. GOLF 2019
Check early 2020 for NEW schedule and idea!

All WARTS golf things

​PicturePhone: How Bell Telephone lost a half billion
($500,000) YET... nearly created the internet!


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Who are these people in Crossbar in 30 building ?
L-R ?, Sandy Waite and Bea Gneau
​These and more are remembered on this other page link:
CLICK HERE

Some of our past long history...CLICK on CRACKED BELL for more
or CLICK on the images below

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50 building - EW&C Insulating operator
RED BOOK
Dated April 1985-after divseture 

​​​For iPad users or to download a file directly....use the file name next to this line of text 
pvc_insulating_manual_1985.pdf
File Size: 21333 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

PVC Insulating Manual 1985 by steve on Scribd

A collection of FUN​ and interesting 
videos I've found on Youtube...

THIS definitely is ....HIGH CLASS, search for knowledge or I didn't know that...!
Your retired - do what you want!

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​Added more video of the great MUSIC from the 60,70,80, 90, 00's and 10's
​This is FUN
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CLiCK On CASSETTE/iPod graphic above
to view ​and ENJOY with SPEAKERS on.


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​NOW with image description of each image

 50 EW&C Building tear down - the contributor and myself occupied the 50 building - Wire and Cable in the 60-80's - more GREAT History remembered.

CLICK to enlarge below image  OR ...to see MORE
of 50+ years of EW&C history removed and converted into Millard Lumber Warehouse.

"CLICK HERE" Orange
hand for more images

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What the inside 50 building - EW&C looked like before Millard Lumber moved in 2008+ and purchased 50 building and some adjacent land.


IMAGES from a lost storage box recently uncovered by a former plant engineer/trades employee

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more images like this....BONUS early days of some of the town Millard in June 1966. 
CLICK on box for more images

adding some caption on the photos of what I can tell !

B&W plant images

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somewhere in Omaha?

Although not Omaha Works newer entrance gates for the late 90's and beyond... our engineering staff and others went looking at other ideas and plans...
The revolving gates and turnstiles were an improvement and did not need a manned station 

​CLICK on Turnstile ideas box.
Turnstile ideas

All the great AT&T phones we purchased - at the AT&T Phone store - or sometimes in the company auditorium with EMPLOYEE discounts
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AT&T Corporation/Verizon-Lucent and OTHER Corporation logo changes - will leave you wondering?
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CLICK ON logo to go to that page

Old found from unknown image taker...looks mostly like 30 building side

PAST nails in the AT&T VAULT ? ...watch it on youtube and read some of the comments.
Water under the bridge ..so to say....
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YET are we really better off today?
​We all have choices and "CALL BLOCKERS, Spoof CALL ID and Robo CALLS"   are we now BETTER OFF?

 - about 20+ minutes on May 5, 1998  ...someone was capturing images on a video camcorder - kind of exciting yet something few plant facilities have done...ENJOY


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CLICK on image to go to that new page about this 1985  handbook...thought we were AT&T then after 1984 divestiture?


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Emil Mach of 30 bldg Crossbar
​recycles parts for reclamation... more images click button
More recycle and people of 30 building

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​​Looking for a SOFTWARE program for older Western Electric pay phones- called "Coinsoft" or its replacement...

​CLICK on software phone for more needed details


Over time  - Screen captures I've used in other pages -  Enjoy and enlarge each one by clicking on it.

Roscoe Secret
Dana Anderson - Drafting

Employees Activity Mall 1993 - included
Bell Federal Credit Union, Employees Store and
EMPLOYEE ​meeting room


​TWO new business on SE corner of 30 building and a new insurance company by the old Main Cafeteria windows view.  On the west side we have two finished Hotels and new drive thru car wash/fueling station and AT&T Switching facility are below.
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​ Images captured on Aug. 3 and
(last batch) on Oc
t. 24, 2018
New Companies (last images) Investors Reality and SWAIN Construction   ADDED:  4/23/19
Still being sliced up into more opportunities for new business.


​Also a new CAR WASH addition to the
​NEW Murphys Fuel Center at 132nd & F St.
CLICK here to see those and more
All NEW windows are being placed on the window level of the south side of 30 building. 
Think we did this in the 1980's also - ...a refreshed new look by Omaha Works Ltd. (Bill and Cliff)


HISTORY OF us....CLICK HERE for Connections Museum

Some of our shared HISTORY - Western Electric
A youtube video page of this Seattle, WA. collection of WORKING "PBX" equipment - ....its 1960's all over again
Courtesy of the volunteers of Connections Museum 

Omaha made...switches/frames and the associated EQUIPMENT and WIRE that ties it all together - back then

Before pocket watches or wrist watches...and you had a phone...companies made these...AUTOMATED TIME announcements some advertising and RINGTONES... whats next?

A collection of films from the AT&T Archives, covering nearly 140 years of innovation. Films from AT&T, Bell Labs, Western Electric, and a broad tapestry of companies and teams that helped build the technological foundation for many of today's computing and communication innovations.
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AT&T TechChannel or there website: 
Some BUZZ words of old days...DSX, Lucent and even shows Product Shots
Not sure what today's Central Office look like or even what a
GOOGLE facility inside looks like?

Continuation of the business... AND making the BEST 
​​The 
"GOLD STANDARD" of audio equipment and amplifiers available?
VERY expensive equipment.
(not you children's audio of today - BETTER, is OLDER)

A new "Western Electric" Plant - now in Rossville, GA.

Standards of High Quality and Craftsmanship from our company still applied today - imagine that - hurrah  !
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History of Western Electric Audio HOME page

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Western Electric Audiophile type of equipment Home page 


You can find more videos like this on my website CLICK HERE
OR GOTO the 
AT&T Tech Channel directly click here


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FLASHBACK..to when the plant was open for business to AT&T and Omaha ...and the first newsletters
​CLICK HERE


Spun off from Lucent ...18 years ago ... Avaya re-invents itself and keeps former name.  A history which partially came from Omaha.  More old news and history of the NEW company are on this page.

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Pension and other news ​from NRLN:
​Click on the "Avaya" logo 
Yet will leave that page for HISTORY

Avaya new NEWS
​CLICK HERE


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​"Pride" was in Omaha -
Even the Jingle

​"Our Future So Bright...We Gotta
​Wear Shades"
 

​...then we missed in 2000 our financial forecast ...oops!
corporate had an answer?
and this has been 19 + years ago...still interesting reading and some insight from a p.o.v.
Follow this news article: 
CLICK HERE

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Hawthorne Works newsletters 
​click on image below
to see what I have and hopefully some more...

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​BELOW is the full sized newspaper - scanned into sections
"Lost" - now FOUND... never printed in our internal print shop - outside publication of the Omaha Team Works implementation awards program.
Might be a "One of One" publication? 


​​For iPad users or to download a file directly....use the file name next to this line of text
best_of_best_mar_1990.pdf
File Size: 15886 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

Best of Best Mar 1990 by on Scribd

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One of the I.B.E.W. # 1974 Union Stewards collections of pins and badges from the Omaha Plant - Union
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We should have been in the publishing business ...every division had a newsletters.
HERE is one by our EW&C and some variations of that Cable Shop newsletter.


CLICK ON either logos to migrate to that page

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Aerial - Helicopter 
​Over 70+ photographic original images recovered and saved ...thank you retiree. These images are from a Helicopter flyover before Lucent and on a medium format film camera - I thought they were lost. I know there are more out there...somewhere! 
WHERE were the drones  -  about 20 years too late!


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​  ENJOY by click on this link for MORE images

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More new ...old newsletters on "Employment Involvement" newsletters added to this
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 CLICK THIS LINK


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 CLICK HERE to watch that short video
(not the full package)
link to a shortened version on my website of the plant...


PLEASE  - the best results are to contact me...I have some extra DVD copies available .... email me
stephenmiller@cox.net
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for more information and to get your Commscope produced DVD

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We have been in the publishing business ...every division had a newsletters.
HERE is one by our Network Systems group of
then AT&T...and later Lucent Technologies

CLICK ON either logo to migrate to that page

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One of many?  ... maybe those who transferred to the Omaha Works from with Northwestern Bell or the Service Center

...ALL in the family is what they were...

 A local Western Electric "SERVICE" facility.
Where some future managers, support and employees transferred to the "plant" at 120th & L street. 

​We had many of these throughout the country (service centers) Omaha had one only a few miles away to support the Ma Bell system of AT&T/Western Electric and in that era, and to also support ​Northwestern Bell, CWA local #7495 

Click on the newspaper image to see the rest of this newsletter. 
​More in the future?

​ (The Omaha Works printed the newsletters for the Service Center at Omaha Works facilities - check the last page  - information donated thru past plant manager)

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Supervisors Newsletter!

CLICK ON NEW

Found a new 1986 article - unknown - another publication by Corporate. This one is for Supervisors!


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It was KNOWN in the plant ...from our heritage we have "GREAT VOLUNTEERING EMPLOYEES"

​       Here is one of the known local community "giver of themselves" to the community.
If you know of more...PLEASE contact me at my email:
​stephenmiller@cox.net
​
CLICK the the graphic above to see
a person's page of recognition

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Acquired thru a former manager ...a lot of the Employee Involvement newsletters fo 1998-1991.  Checkout these
​ NEW ones added and being added. 

CLICK EMPLOYEE INVOLVEMENT logo ABOVE to go ​to that page.   ENJOY our past

Images submitted by Eileen Kosdecki taken on 8/81 ?
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​WEOMA Club 1991 Jan/May - and 92 and other years - 2004

​Even more than this ...
a LOT of "WEOMA" newsletters.
Found ...more WEOMA papers from 1980's and later.  These were the daily events of the plant social events and activities of the Omaha Works employees.

(thank you to a plant manager for these saved WEOMA newsletters)
CLICK LOGO 
for the general location of WEOMA news
 ..there are many pages of WEOMA news, check them all out ...ALL YEARS. 
Western Electric OMAha - WEOMA ...
​a weekly publication by several plant employees serving as editors.


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1950's and beyond newspaper clippings - copy of copies - very marginal quality - yet still "NEWS"
​of plant and community.
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​A retirees publication by corporate AT&T produced and mailed to each retiree in the 80's and 90's.
I only have a few issues from that time frame..if there are more, I will glad incorporate them into this site to share.
More information CLICK ME

RETIREES known as of 1986 in an AT&T Retirees directory of 1987. This large publication covers all known retirees of 1986 and backwards.  Realizing this is 30 year old book...and no images and names listed we might know are probably gone.  Therefore much information gained would be of little value. A collectors sized phone book of passed away people based on retirement age of 65 plus 30 years since publication = history

These are only a few pages of the over 700++ page book I've scanned. Just a quick look at what AT&T Corporate felt important in 1987.  Thank you caring in 1987...  today's companies ? Are there more of these book relevant to retirees - unknown, only retirees or family or other retirees might have these books.


​​For iPad users or PC users to download a file directly....use the file name next to this line of text
at_t_1987_retired_ne_ia.pdf
File Size: 19902 kb
File Type: pdf
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AT&T 1987 Retired NEBRASKA-IOWA retired by steve on Scribd

Scans of some important information pages, scan of a FIRST page of ALL retirees - found a few of the NE. and IA. people names. Then by states NE. and IA. Enjoy ... for most of the names might be gone or in their late 80's-90's.
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​ "There's More"
​ for more short videos...of 6/21/17


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 WHAT YEAR? --- if you have more memorable moments or items like this (our history) contact me.  
​Always in search of more if you have an answer.
​ email:   ​stephenmiller@cox.net


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CLICK on image
to READ some recently found old newsprint articles about the Omaha Works of Western Electric and the new community of Millard and the Omaha area

I was only 9 years old...think I missed this open house opportunity, my parent started in 1965 --- while I was in high school...where were YOU?


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We initiated many successful  "Suppliers Forums " with our vendors, working together we reduced costs and increased productivity/lowered cost. 

A day of golf and meal was followed by golf awards and recognition were had by all. 
I even captured foursome teams photographs of the vendors/ and purchasing staff...
​where are those images? 

​ Event locations I remember attending in the Omaha area:
​Field Club Golf Course, Champions Golf Course, 
​SAC Museum, Joslyn Museum, Stone Creek Golf, and maybe more..?


Old phone book covers and some completely scanned phone books - the larger format ones....This cover had our name - Western Electric on it---tree covered up Electric ! 
(incorrect angle on photography) 


CLICK on image to access that page...
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Photographs captured in 2004 of
50 building​/cable shop

CLICK on THE photograph
for a collection from a retired engineer
 of the plant

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More images on a separate page - ENJOY

AQT Teams - Omaha Works 
...some images

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​There is probably some news about the Area Quality Teams of the plant in the "Headliner" 90's newsletters... 
check them out !


Beginning of the "TOWER" and the many identifications along with security office once given to this building:
Plant Trades/Boiler House or 40/42 building?
​The tower came down in which year?

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Click on the image to view the collection of images from 1957

There is a group photograph from the 90's out in the trades building...CLICK here to see that image and MORE
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Trades Employees - late 1990's
Yes we had that many plants trades and highly skilled millwrights, toolmakers and other factory skilled workers within the Omaha Works facility. 


THERE are more trades images, etc.
At this CLICK
OR
CLICK HERE 
To see data provided by Les Wigg of the plants trades of the ones "he" remembers.  There might be more?


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See Directions marked in black pen - W.E. and North
High resolution scan...
YEAR ? 
1960's ?
The water tower in center lower is Ralston water tower and "Q" street and "L" street  running center E-W. Interstate
I-80 is in and so is 120 & L street -  
​Enjoy and download if you wish /LARGE 25 megabyte file.

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35th Anniversary Preparations - images and pages of behind the scene details and work done by staff and the Union represented employees AT&T Omaha Works and of I.B.E.W. #1614 ​ and #1974 in Omaha
CLICK on either AT&T image
​ above to see more:

And NOW for the 40th ...our last year of plant employees/area celebration held in Omaha.  None were held under Avaya or other company!

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 More of the 40th Anniversary of the Omaha Works - Lucent Technologies Celebration paperwork ...
CLICK on the image BELOW - it will take you to celebration information.  
​Yet there is so much MORE ? Check the year of 1998 newsletters for a recap and what happened that year.


For those newsletters - a short cut CLICK HERE

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Gerry Coakley, Dick Shropshire and Delores Denecocke (sitting)
Herb Shelton, Bob Janssen, and Paul Pickrel (standing-sitting)

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This website (OmahaWorks.net) has been added to the
Archive section
of Lucent Retirees website - along with other former plant locations

​This section of the LRO website added the Omaha Works history and others factories of the Ma Bell - Western Electric Manufacturing to the ongoing history of Ma Bell and AT&T.  
​
​Click on the LRO logo to find about the
Omaha Works and other locations


Did you ever work at this job...? This and many NEW older images recovered and now posted for you to enjoy...
​CLICK on image to access that image and more

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Engineering Staff of the 70'-80's
Publication titled:

Technical-Professional Staff of Omaha Works
click on THE image below to access those pages

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Engineers of 1990's  More Engineers and Staff?  1990's
another New page of
images are over 20 years younger than today!


Medical Department in 20 building 1st level

A SOMETIMES NEEDED visit to:  
​New ear plus, cut finger, dropped reel on toe or many other minor items with factory production.  Also for yearly check up and ear and eye testing...probably one of the FEW corporations that had in house on site-staff by skilled nurses/doctor.  
They were a friendly staff on all 3 shifts!

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90 + 
​newsprint images

​
CLICK on logo to access that page of 
saved from 2004 and further back....


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...To view click on image

Product Literature - usually in the Product Display Room


Reel Yard - High Quality B&W 1959 Construction
Click on image to Enlarge

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to go to the 1959 and 1967/68 Construction of Reel Yard and Water Treatment building 
​(100's of images) and ...

Top of Page

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JUST found more construction B&W photographs 1956 land images and earthmovers - some labeled, some not.... and the beginning of Control Data across the street!
​  
CLICK on the image for that PAGE.

Corporate did one like this with management - ?
​THIS ONE IS what our Corporate should have done...then again ..?  ​THIS one sounds better!


I remember OUR management team were distributing "SUNGLASS/SHADES", yet I don't think we did a video, only "BILLBOARDS" around Omaha for our 40th Anniversary celebration, which just happen to be the same time! See the ​YELLOW/Red images on the HOME page - very obvious

Found it ... Rich McGinn - "Gotta Wear Shades" -
starts at 59 ++ minutes in the ALL Employee Broadcast ...
Sorry it does not start at 59 minutes..use the scroll bar and move to that time..or listen to the WHOLE thing?

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Many more older photographs of construction in the beginning and other images:
Top of Page

I.B.E.W. local union # 1974  - Members of the 80's
names if known are in the enlargements...donated by a retiree of the Union
 Click image to enlarge

Are there MORE images to share...?

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Newly found Newsprint articles from great find...
Click on paper image to go to that page...

A cabinet was needed and FAST for presidential debate via AT&T - CSMI ...details of a 2008 opportunity.
​ - click here follow this link or click on the image

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CLICK on any short cut button below to see that page
All Employees Images of Staff-Plant-Parking Lot sales
Images from meeting, events, general and visitors
Retirees monthly or weekly - Lunch meetings LINK
Known meeting places for retirees getting together 

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Helicopter image captured by Steve Miller the plant photographer/video producer from the mid 1980's to early 2001 in a helicopter (before drones were available).  
​Still under AT&T banner indicated by the 20 building Marble Frontage covering.
Notice the west office parking lot...
½ grass covered landscape!  We added asphalt later and made it larger in the late 1998 ?
​ (now Millard Lumber parking lot)
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Newer scanned items and BOOKLETS from the plant added February 2017
​ 

click here or on image 
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OLDER "linked" news articles added December 2016

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Added many "old newspaper" articles link -- CLICK HERE or on image to see  MANY older history articles of maybe other plants and Omaha.


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The Hawthorne Museum - where some of the old phones/items that use to be in the display case from the Omaha Works main cafeteria went...?
Click on the above image to go there...

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Looking towards the east ...in the EW&C-50 building:
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Insulating lines # 1- 48 in 50 building - Cable Shop looking east down the aisle of the "automatics" with storage racks above.  Also we had concrete floors back then versus the old creosote wooden blocks of the 60's.  
​They were a challenge to drive over when WET.  Then we got "CONCRETE" in the 80's along with 7 day coverage..?

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NEW (old Union Agreement in 2006)
CLICK here to go to it.
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NEW photographs of new construction at the old plant added
:  
CLICK on text above !
​to goto that page..at the bottom are new photographs ​
​ added another page called:
Photo 15 years section...enjoy.


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Site creator/administrator to send notices to.  
​Image is from his LAST day on the job in July 2001
​I was so very lucky to have this job.

Missing the "old job" and SUPER people/staff and fun days of 24 years ago...
email of site administrator/creator and idea man...stephenmiller@cox.net

 Contained is information about the employees and company activities for over 45+ years of current events and happenings of this manufacturing facilities existence.  All in the family of existing corporations such as: Western Electric, AT&T, Lucent and Avaya and the regional Bell companies during the existence of "Omaha Works" from 1956 - 2004

IN 2004 a change in the name and ownership to:  CommScope's  "Connecivity Solutions Manufacturing Inc.  Omaha Division" , which later closed the facility in Omaha in 2012


The results of Omaha Works properties and various enhancements to the buildings over the years and what has changed since 2011.
CommScope has sold/leased the properties to which then leases or sold more of the land to various companies/entities at the location of the old factory.
​(
not sure of the exact wordage here or history - Needs clarification..can anyone who was employed from 2001-2012 provide the internal details?) as I retired in 2001.
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Guessing image is from mid 1970' - 1980's ---due to the reel yard cranes and were making exchange cable and smaller office parking lots ?

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A new way to always get to the HOME page...
TOP LEFT - OmahaWorks.net
CLICK on it ...take you to the HOME page, every time and on every page!
- also -

TOP RIGHT - White/Red Box
ON EVERY PAGE ...
a "SEARCH" feature

Type in any word or number, etc.  ...
​Words such as: IBEW, Western Electric, Lucent, AT&T, business cards, newsletters, union papers, video tapes, photographs, Bob Allen, Mike Parizez, Ray Schwartz or telephone,1970, sale, etc.

​It SEARCHES ALL content on the omahaworks site
​(NOT the external web)
Based on WORDS "I've put into a description, my notes or anything I've typed to an article of interest, observations, etc".


SORRY - it will not search for names in newsletters - (PDF files)
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​​​​For iPad users or to download a file directly....use the file name next to this line of text 
readingworkspamphlet.pdf
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Another former manufacturing facility has a website and history to tell you.  Here is a File about some of their HISTORY from a newsletter, I think.

Also look to this link for more on their WEBSITE under Plants of AT&T
(click here)

Reading Works Pamphlet by steve on Scribd


NEW - OLD images recently scanned on 12/7/16
For us old enough to remember - something dramatic
happened 75 years ago... WAR in the Pacific Sea.


Clowns
GENERAL PHOTOS
Company Volunteer Employee Clowns for Social and Company Events
MORE images to come...once I organize and sort - ALWAYS looking for More...

Bell Ringers Images
Volunteering with the Employees Organization at the factory, many projected a very positive feelings of all the employees helping the community.

I was incorrect ! - I didn't know CommScope had a facility in Sidney, NE.   It looked like items we used at one time in Omaha. Here is the article wordage from Nov. 14, 2016 Omaha World Herald paper:​

About 140 jobs will be lost with the closing of a copper cable plant in Sidney, Nebraska. CommScope, based in Hickory, North Carolina, said it will close the plant in phases and move some of the work to a CommScope facility in Claremont, North Carolina. CommScope gained the Sidney plant in August as part of its acquisition of Broadband Network Solutions from TE Connectivity. CommScope said the Sidney plant is being closed because of underutilization and available production capacity elsewhere. 


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for iPad users or to download and print the file for general use
commscope2016-brochure-final.pdf
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CommScope2016 Brochure Final by steve on Scribd



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​Products W.E. made, not necessarily in Omaha...
CLICK on phone to see large a Western Electric pre - divestiture 
Consumer telephone 
catalogue
TODAY we hardly purchase landline phone, mostly now are the SMART Phones of today - preferably an iPhone!
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​​​​​​For iPad users or to download a file directly....use the file name next to this line of text below

lincolnbuilding.pdf
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Western Electric History ... Lincoln Nebraska Building

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The famous Lincoln building that once had the name Western Electric-one in Lincoln, and one in Omaha (building A?) ....CLICK HERE for the whole story from the Lincoln Journal Star for Lincoln's article.  Is an article/images of building of a building in downtown Omaha ? Or read the file below?


Western Electric History in Millard Nebraska...

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CLICK on image to make it LARGER !
http://durhammuseum.org/
Found this reference to the land the plant got built on, and also a comment on WHY Millard township back then was laid out different. CLICK on image to ZOOM closer

Link is from eomahaforums.com...bottom of the page  http://eomahaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=743#p243287


​Share with your friends or former employees of the plant at 120th & "L" Street
If you wish to add items from your personal collections of photos, newsletters, video tapes or plant related articles.  All items are returned, or if you wish,
or I can keep forever.
Since you're on the internet - you can email me below...I'll pass on the phone calls for now​ and ship to me addresses - I might move!

email: stephenmiller@cox.net
I do respond to email
s
From the companies of: W.E., AT&T, Lucent
and Avaya Corporations
A former, (retired) management employee
​of 32 years. Questions, corrections or clarifications - email me. 

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 A letter generated below is from the p.o.v. of other scholars of why
​Lucent Technology
​failed in the marketplace
...?
​(The source of this letter is:
http://usphoenix.net/science,%20technology/what_really_happened_to_lucent_t.htm)

​​​​​​For iPad users or to download a file directly....use the file name next to this line of text below 

what_really_happened_to_lucent_technologies.pdf
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What Really Happened to Lucent Technologies by steve


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Our cabinets were built to this level to perfection and quality by our Omaha Works by our skilled workforce for over 45 years.

Many employees in cabinets and the production process from drafting/CAD drawings, engineers, support management, plant management and production employees would be proud they made such durable products.

​Look around Omaha and other locations...those cabinets/painted enclosures are still working to provide us ...telephone, internet and a variety of digital services today.
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A non portable original antique Wood analogue phone  just needs lots of furniture polish to maintain - Courtesy G.Vomacka

 CLICK on ANY image to .... make it larger !

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Very RARE find... a 1961 pay detail...keep looking in your "stored away boxes" 
 There is MORE out there to enhance this site and our "Omaha Works" History
Look at the hourly pay...PREMIUM pay in those days...not sure what minimum wage was back then...THIS surely had it beat ! Thanks Western Electric for you supported many communities and families for many decades, and all the names that followed in Corporate terms.

WANT to see what todays dollars would buy based on some past years wages...click on this link below
http://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

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The title says it all to over 50+ employees of the "Omaha Works" in this image .  
​The existence of the Omaha Works from 1958 - 2011, with over 50+ years of fantastic
Union and non union employees, Management/Engineering/staff and many supporting Trades people... made this facility the BEST ever in the system and in the history of MA BELL's manufacturing division.  

This proud location contributed so many products and services that WAS represented the p
ride of the U.S.of A. and the WORLD's BEST Telephone system.

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​For info. ABOUT the Creator...
​who is the real
​Steve Miller's
​other website/personal/Professional 

click here or above images


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NEW - JUST ADDED
​Video's taken on a iPhone 6s PLUS.

click here or on the camera to watch some recent
on location videos of the existing buildings and enhancements added to the old plant?


Just added 2016 new booklets I call them... a very informative - LARGE booklet about ...
"A Historical Perspective of AT&T 1996"
...check the Booklet page or

click HERE 
and a 
SERVICE Anniversary Booklet
​
from 1965 added recently... ENJOY


w.e._staff_jun_1972.pdf
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 Excuse the handwriting...just a note of who changed positions in 1972 added by?

w.e._staff_mar_1974.pdf
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Your browser does not support viewing this document. Click here to download the document.
click on link Western Electric - "Omaha Works" Staff assignments from the Plant General Manager to Assistant Managers/Medical .
I was as an employee...1968/1969-2001
​Steve Miller, were YOU?
​

Apologies for small images/quality....try the FULL PAGE view, yet even they are grainy...VERY SMALL IMAGES and TEXT to work from!
Updated with more new images

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 Do you remember when is said ....
"Western Electric" 
​
on the tower ?


Lots of new images taken from the EAST side going West going the route of the back road "F" Street.  I even missed a few places....
​ENJOY, maybe more in the future ?


CLICK HERE or on the above image:  to go to dedicated page of these images...


Video Images of the new owner of the old 60 building - name changed to - Quad Graphics from
​Specialty Finishing.  


To learn more about that company and other video of the neat things they produce in our old warehouse, and how they utilized the floor space. They have more videos posted to watch which show the basic floor plan we
had till it was sold in 20xx?

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 CLICK HERE   for more of this company Speciality Finishing/QUAD Graphics for more information and videos of their tools and services.  I posted mainly because it shows the old 60 building internals layout.
 (at least the internal walls/racks are
 still there)

THIS sites VIEWING pleasure is best from a desktop computer or maybe iPad. 

This site was not optimized for the 
​Smart Phone format
! 
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Aerial image from BEFORE the changes....drive by 132nd St. side or the "I" St access road on the west end....CHANGES have been made for the ....new owners?  GONE was the large parking lot and access roads of before...replaced by more roads/hotels and more businesses.  Now a new road "130th Plaza"  (the old 50 bldg. parking lot) and a new railroad track, and the WEST GUARD SHACK is now gone ...SEE above images for other views.

How we used to fabricate and some people installed these cabinets under the old companies...
now a new company *CommScope* guidelines.
For those who USE to build these "state of the art" cabinets, and install under the AT&T-Lucent-Avaya days ...ENJOY


From the video tape vault...THIS tape has everything. Bright Future, "Gotta Wear Shades", Acquisition of ASCEND and a 2016 Presidential candidate (female) who use to be in management at Lucent.
MAYBE more to come...?

Western Electric/AT&T/
Lucent/Avaya and Commscope original buildings STILL remains...
 yet some NEW construction is going on.


Explanation of the photograph is in the PHOTOGRAPH section - 
click here to go to 
​
see them.

Newest photographs are at the bottom ...
​ALWAYS looking for more.



Maybe more images to come of updated construction or new views?
 From the video tape box of the unknown (actually I gave my parent a copy to show her how her former employer had changed from the days of W.E., and AT&T - glad she kept this - she 
(Betty "Darlene" Miller passed away on 8/11/2015) and I found this while house cleaning.  MAYBE you have some of those tapes, photographs or other plant related "ANYTHING" ...they need a new home!

...THIS tape has everything.
 Rich McGinn CEO and "Gotta Wear Shades" and fantastic profit report for this April 29, 1998
 All Employees Broadcast on Satellite signal which hopefully some employees watched.

Vote for the following of the I.B.E.W. local 1974 union officers (donated by Edie Riester) of the Omaha Works facility from 1958-2004?

NOT sure of the year they choose to seek office or position or re-election .....maybe further information 
in the future?

Hope more will come as people find them....
added July 9, 2015
Additional MUG images by Edie Riester...
anyone save that item?

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Contributed by Edie Reister...we sure gave away lots of items to our employees. This bobble was part of of a TEAM program for ideas/rewards in the late 89-90 years.  If you have anything involving the plant/employees, contact:  Steve Miller

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Details and some explanation of the new construction.   
For details from the article on the image to the left: 
follow this link below

It show three new buildings (2 hotel and Omaha Track Headquarters) and some interior and artists rendering of future.  The images above in the slideshow are of construction images.



CLICK here for a link to the map/explanation
OR

Story Explanation below: click on the text in red

http://www.omaha.com/money/old-western-electric-land-is-getting-a-railroad--themed/article_5783e725-f177-50e8-95d1-f7b4bfd9a991.html?mode=story



Sharing of images from a former employee who was there till the end, and wished to share what he did for 29 years of W.E. AT&T, Lucent, Avaya and Commscope.

Steve Dormer, informed me that he  worked at the plant for 29 years and 5 months. I was in the July 15, 2011 the last group to be laid off. Below are pictures that I took on my old cell phone that I have recently transferred to my computer. 
+ + + + +
I was a sheet metal high bay employee, that is why the pictures are mostly of the sheet metal, paint line, cabinet related variety. I ran the turret punch that is pictured. 
Thank You:
Steve Miller for the web site.
 (Lots of pictures of cell teams for the 1990's, etc.)


P.S.  Thank you Steve, unfortunately all the captions did not transfer over, YET people will enjoy them.   Also, these images are in the "photographs" section - 
Steve Miller-creator
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Some of the training Department reunion in 2004 and support staff in lower level of 20 building



After the luncheon in 2000 and the Avaya Players at the Holiday Inn in Omaha Cathy Placek, Ray Schwartz and Dr. Tom Osborne spoke to the retirees.  

From the unknown... the lost video tape vault of ...?
"Avaya Players" with Camille and the Outta Sync's presentation ....many times in the main cafeteria


...On the  road? ... Once a annual event, the ALL Retirees luncheon in 2000 at the Holiday Inn 72nd & Grover  ... the show continues with enhancements !
audio challenges - UNTIL :  2:00 minutes into skit
oops lost my ...wired connection...NEVER trust an unknown audio connection . That was 18 years ago ...


I.B.E.W. #1974 Anniversary Issues 
and MORE...monthly issues

A donation of "Anniversary Issues" of the union paper and MANY more.
Click on the ANY 
 buttons 
Included are Anniversary issues of the:
 10th, 25th, 30th and 40th issues.

  As with the company newsletters, 
I DO NOT have  a complete history of all issues.  
They're in a storage box at a
​ "retirees" home.

PLEASE look, they might be 
waiting to escape... the landfill, paper shredder or ?
I'll help?

Did you know in 1969 - A Short Circuit issue said:
6800 copies printed monthly, and sent to: 23 states and D.C., Czechoslovakia, Germany, Japan. Holland, Switzerland, Canada and Ireland. (On the front cover of October 1969 Short Circuit)
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"35th Anniversary logo" playing deck of pinochle playing cards given as one of ? many recognition items to celebrate.

Can you remember where you were in 1993...we were still AT&T .

Internal Company - Phone Books

ADDED another book - 1988
FIRST Omaha Works internal phone book was March 1959 ?
and more added.
Ponder the idea...who was there in ANY year.
Look at each book in a year you remember - you might be surprised who you'll find as - Engineer, Department Chief/Supervisor or staff member !


CLICK HERE to view

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A reminder of how important "SAFETY" was on/off
the job. This "plaque" was on ALL 
supervisors desk !

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I.B.E.W. #1974 Union newsletter collection

Short Cut to specific years of the Union 
"Short Circuit" newsletters.
1960-1979 Issues
1980-2000 issues

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Article from the Omaha World Herald dates September 21, 1985.

Employment looked a little challenging in those days, we survived and continued.

Full article ...click on image to view full article.



MORE newspaper articles?


What you see is what I have scanned.
 If you don't see an issue, it needs to be rescued.
PLEASE DIG IT OUT ! 
Always looking for plant related.... 
Photographs,Video tapes, articles, etc. are welcome.
STILL Missing ...Not sure of the 1958-59 issues?
Company newsletters with "zero" issues 
that I have NO newsletters for:
 1960, 1965, and 1968 
Lots of Union Newsletters missing !
Did anyone keep anything?

Photographs ... and always NEED MORE !

Names of  WORKING employees

Internal Company
"Omaha Works" 
Newsletters by the Decades:

50's
60's
70's
80's
90's
2000's

Emp. Involvement Today & EW&C Newsletters
Union I.B.E.W.
WEOMA newsletters

Booklets Produced
iPad Section
Videos of plant
More Videos  2...

Lucent Mag. 1996 - ?

Old Home page info:
Western Elec. 1914 + Magazines

Northwestern Bell Magazine
Collectible Phones we made

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Coming upon
142 years+
  anniversary of the

 "MA BELL" era. 
A saying so famous... maybe those under a certain age might not remember our history.  These times are gone for now . . . enjoy our history.

Yet AT&T still exists today!
Not our AT&T yet a new AT&T still doing phone technology and more.

One of many images of THE famous front of
 "Omaha Works" and it also said "Western Electric" across the front of 20 building in some images.
...click on it and see....
more images.

ADDED more images of PEOPLE and Construction


BALTIMORE WORKS News
A rare "newsletter" about another manufacturing plant of "MA BELL".  Are there more? 
Share them if you can


Commscope EMPLOYEES:  location to a new building in Omaha:

Commscope- Omaha 96th & Western 
(2 blocks north of Dodge Street) 
60 employees here.
"Offices are in the back row"

ALL the names are on a separate list.
CLICK here to go to that "still working" list


An BIRDSEYE - NO DRONE images YET: view of the "Omaha Works"
After the front yard disappeared.
  Better visual details are 
CLICK HERE  or THIS LINK   
This goes thru www.bing.com search for a better image.
 BEST VIEW is the
""Bird's eye view"" in top right of screen from www.bing.com

Were you employed by one of these companies, or all of them. 
No logo for Western Electric 
(was absorbed by AT&T in 1984)

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History of this combined company of U.S. and Europe.  Click here.  http://www.alcatel-lucent.com/about/history
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Click on a "logo" to connect and view our former/current corporate web page. 


Collectors Piece?  It's value at one time was over $80.00+    ... now called Alcatel-Lucent and now NOKIA  
Current price is OVER $?  so many name changes, gave up on the French company - Alcatel, now purchased by Nokia  What's next?
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