adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News August 29, 2012 “Churners of the celebrated Blue Valley Butter. The largest exclusive manufacturers of pure cream in the world!” Those hearty boasts border the…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News August 22, 2012 This real photo postcard spotlights the damage from the May 20, 1957, Ruskin Heights tornado that carved a 71-mile path of devastation…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News August 15, 2012 Published by and for the Thornton & Minor Sanitarium, this week’s card shows the second location of the hospital originally started by…
adminBuilt in 1907 by the Scarritt Estate Company (formed in 1903 by the children of the prominent early-day Kansas Citian, Nathan Scarritt, who migrated to Western Missouri in 1848 as…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News August 1, 2012 In 1888 when the Forest Hill Cemetery was incorporated, it lay outside the Kansas City city limits at 69th and Troost Avenue.…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News July 25, 2012 This week’s postcard shows the result of countless days of rain and the lack of a levee system on the West Bottoms…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL July 11, 2012 This panoramic postcard of downtown Kansas City, looking east from Broadway, was copyrighted by G.H. Otto in 1899, just a year after picture postcards…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News July 4, 2012 During the American Revolution, a number of patriots made flags for our new nation. Among them were Cornelia Bridges, Elizabeth (Betsy) Ross…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 27, 2012 The venerable Densmore Hotel was part of Kansas City’s downtown landscape for almost 100 years before succumbing to the wrecking ball late…
adminBy MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News June 20, 2012 Wide bell bottoms and long collars aside, the advertising postcard produced by the Mercury Division of the Ford Motor company shows two…
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