Swirling flood waters inundate city in 1951
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News June 15, 2011 Making the floods of 1903 and 1908 seem insignificant in comparison, the flood of 1951 was dubbed “The Great Flood” with the…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News June 15, 2011 Making the floods of 1903 and 1908 seem insignificant in comparison, the flood of 1951 was dubbed “The Great Flood” with the…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News June 8, 2011 Risqué photos like the one shown here have been around for as long or longer than postcards themselves. Prior to the advent…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News June 1, 2011 In 1888 when the Forest Hill Cemetery was incorporated, it lay outside the Kansas City city limits at 69th and Troost Avenue.…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News May 25, 2011 Never before or since has such a line of martial marchers moved down Kansas City’s streets as did the American Legion parade…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News May 18, 2011 What became one of America’s greatest “bread and butter” railroads was founded in 1845 by a group of civic leaders in and…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News May 11, 2011 About two years after the opening of the “new” Hannibal Bridge over the Missouri River, Kansas City’s first Livestock Exchange building was…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News May 4, 2011 Planetarium Domes combine a smooth, quiet ride with extra sightseeing thrills for travelers aboard Missouri Pacific’s swift, luxurious, streamlined Texas and Colorado Eagles.…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News April 27, 2011 This postcard, published by the Webb-Freyschlag Mercantile Company, shows a peaceful view of Swan Lake in Mount Washington Park. Situated between what…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News April 20, 2011 Built in 1907 by the Scarritt Estate Company (formed in 1903 by the children of the prominent early-day Kansas Citian, Nathan Scarritt,…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News April 13, 2011 Every spring between the years 1841 to 1857 emigrants gathered in towns along the Missouri River and began their long trek westward…