Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher This week, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of Worlds of Fun on May 26, 1973, we offer this Chrome-era postcard of the Cotton Blossom, one…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Have you ever eaten here – where everything’s so dog-gone good? Started as a summer opportunity to earn money, two music teachers from the University of Illinois opened…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher Upon its completion in 1914, the Montgomery Ward Distribution Center in Historic Northeast Kansas City was billed as the largest building west of the Mississippi River. Measuring a…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor After years of working as a bank clerk, William S. Burroughs (1855-1898) switched vocations to concentrate on creating a better adding machine. The son of a machinist, he…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher This week’s Historic Postcard is a Real Photo Postcard published by the North American Postcard Company of Kansas City, Mo., showing the handsome, new three-story Morse Elementary School…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor From the ancient Egyptians to the movie stars of the silver screen, eyebrows have been shaded, plucked, and elongated as styles changed through the centuries. Using carbon and…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher “One smile from you in Kansas City would transfer me to heaven.” So indicates the message on the front of this card designed to resemble a railroad ticket…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Insert your coins and watch as a unique toy is created before your eyes! The novelty of Mold-A-Rama vending machines appealed to all ages. First introduced at the…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher This advertising postcard for the M&T Tire Company at 4629 Troost was produced in the late 1920s and is an excellent example of advertising postcards of the day.…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Giddy-up! Young, aspiring buckaroos looked forward to the weekly trip to the grocery store to insert a coin and gallop away, for a few minutes at least. Whether…
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