Taming the streets of Kansas City
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News March 2, 2011 The Northeast News print advertisements placed by the Oldsmobile Company in 1939 tout the new Olds “60” as the “car that tamed…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News March 2, 2011 The Northeast News print advertisements placed by the Oldsmobile Company in 1939 tout the new Olds “60” as the “car that tamed…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News Feb. 23, 2011 “An idea to create the largest zoological garden in the United States. There will be nothing better in the world. Swope Park…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News Feb. 16, 2011 This chrome-style postcard showcases one of the new service areas along the newly completed Kansas Turnpike. The Kansas Turnpike was the brainchild…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News Feb. 2, 2011 Around the turn of the 20th Century, it was not uncommon for local photo-postcard companies to go door-to-door in Kansas City’s more…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News Jan. 26, 2011 “I won’t be reconstructed, I’m better now than then. And for a Carpetbagger I do not give a damn. So it’s forward…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News Jan. 19, 2011 Published by Hall Bros. in the early 1920s, this color postcard with Art Deco side accents shows the National Cloak and Suit…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News Nov. 3, 2010 Titled “Elm Ridge Driving Park,” this week’s card shows the Elm Ridge Race Track. Only in operation from April 28, 1904 through…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News Oct. 27, 2010 Marked by old greeting postcards like these, the tradition of Halloween traces its origins to the ancient Celtic holiday “Samhain” (pronounced “sow-in”),…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News Oct. 20, 2010 In the late 1880s, Kansas City was awash with excitement that it, too, would soon have its own Harvest Festival. An up-and-coming…
By Michael Bushnell Northeast News Oct. 13, 2010 Construction of the Hannibal Bridge almost didn’t happen in Kansas City in 1867. Leavenworth, Kan., and Kansas City were in a race…