Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher “Kansas City cannot be a metropolitan area without a quality zoological garden,” said Barron Fradenburg, founding partner of the Fradenburg-Trotter Fire Insurance Company, located in the Dwight Building…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Living 20 minutes into the future and tagging Coke drinkers as “Coke-ologists,” Max Headroom was developed as the first computer-generated TV presenter. The character, created by George Stone,…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher West Terrace Park was one of Kansas City’s first parks, originally proposed by landscape architect George Kessler in his plan to develop a “city within a park” in…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher This week, we feature a promotional postcard for the Southwest Milling Company showing the company’s A and B Flour Mills. The “A” mill was built in 1913 near…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Can you do “The Flake?” If you can, you know the “crazy new dance that’s the talk of the town.” In a cross-promotion offer between Liberty Records and…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher Seventeen carloads of 8-inch ice, direct from the Nemaha River near Lincoln, Nebraska were received in this city on Sunday last by the K.C. & Wyandotte Ice Company.…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor Need a chip off the block? Then this ice pick advertising the Kansas City Ice Company will pointedly do the job. Despite the similarity of names, the Kansas…
Dorri PartainDorri PartainContributor On January 16, 1991, President George H.W. Bush announced the attack on military targets in Iraq, and Operation Desert Shield became Operation Desert Storm. Also known as the…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher This week’s Historic postcard is a C.T. American Art Blue-Sky postcard published by E.D. Zellner of Junction City, Kan., showing the first Territorial Capitol Building, now located on…
Dorri PartainDorri Partain Contributor What’s for lunch? For a wide selection of menu options, head to the International Cafe. For nearly a decade, visitors to Kansas City Crown Center’s shopping, dining,…
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