adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News The holiday we celebrate as Thanksgiving had very humble beginnings in a tiny settlement bordering the Massachusetts Bay in 1621. The previous winter had been extremely hard,…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News This advertising postcard from The Westmoreland Company shows a residence at 74th and Mercier streets. The actual residence shown on the card is a house…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Kansas City’s Electric Park was named for the 100,000 electric light bulbs that outlined the park’s buildings and rides after dark that literally turned night into…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Kansas City Fire Department was not only the talk of the town, it was the talk of the…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Northeast News In the late 1880s, Kansas City was awash with excitement that it too would soon have its own Harvest Festival. An up and coming group…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Most of the buildings shown in this Southwest News Company postcard published in 1907 were demolished in the late 1940s to make way for the new…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News Electric Park View is the title of this postcard published in 1913 for Electric Park in Kansas City, Mo. Electric Park was named for the…
adminMichael Bushnell Northeast News According to the Nor’easter, Volume 1, Number 1, under the leadership of Editor Nathan Scarritt, the first journalistic endeavor at Northeast High School was launched on…
adminMichael Bushnell The Northeast News The Kansas City-Smithville Race Track grandstands and the first turn are pictured on this postcard published by the Auburn Greeting Card Company in the 1920s.…
adminby Michael Bushnell Northeast News Kansas City’s street railway began humbly in 1869 with the advent of small, animal-drawn cars along rails laid in existing city streets. They were usually…
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