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    308: Recovery Month at Healing House

    September 27th, 2023
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  • Postcard

    Bales Baptist Church, Men’s Bible Class

    August 9th, 2023
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  • Remember This?

    Remember this?

    September 27th, 2023
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  • Sweeney System taught thousands mechanics and radio repair

    August 2nd, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher Sweeney’s Army Motor Mechanics School is shown on this real photo postcard dated Aug. 18, 1918. The school […]

    Hostelry served downtown community for almost a century

    July 26th, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher The venerable Densmore Hotel located at 906-914 Locust was part of Kansas City’s downtown for almost 100 years. […]

    The flood to end all floods

    July 19th, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher Making the floods of 1903 and 1908 seem insignificant in comparison, the flood of 1951 was dubbed “The […]

    Boulevard view much the same 100 years later

    July 12th, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher This 1920 Fred Harvey postcard is entitled “Gladstone Boulevard looking North” and shows the 400 block of one […]

    Summertime means lake time!

    July 3rd, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher This week’s linen style postcard features a typical boat and fishing dock at Lake of the Ozarks, Mo.An […]

    A hair raising ride

    June 28th, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher In their 1950 book, “City of the Future,” which celebrates Kansas City’s first 100 years, Henry Haskell Jr. […]

    Palatial City Hall once stood in River Market District

    June 21st, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher In 1889, when cattle, pigs and all manner of livestock still roamed the streets of Kansas City, voters […]

    Stats hotel prominent in local LGBTQ history

    June 14th, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher Downtown Kansas City’s Stats Hotel at 12th & Wyandotte was proclaimed to be at the center of everything […]

    AAA, providing security to the modern traveler

    June 7th, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher On October 4, 1946, “Pearle” sent this black and white, photo postcard to her mother, Mrs. Walter Cochran […]

  • Paseo YMCA central to city’s African American heritage

    May 31st, 2023
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    By Michael Bushnell, Publisher This week, in tandem with our summer interns’ story on Juneteenth, we spotlight the Paseo YMCA […]

    All aboard the Cotton Blossom for a grand show!

    May 24th, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher This week, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the opening of Worlds of Fun on May 26, 1973, […]

    Montgomery Ward, largest building west of the Mississippi!

    May 17th, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher Upon its completion in 1914, the Montgomery Ward Distribution Center in Historic Northeast Kansas City was billed as […]

    Morse/Sumner School boasts diverse history

    May 10th, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher This week’s Historic Postcard is a Real Photo Postcard published by the North American Postcard Company of Kansas […]

    Punchin’ your ticket with a smile on the Swift & Far RY

    May 3rd, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher “One smile from you in Kansas City would transfer me to heaven.” So indicates the message on the […]

    Sufferin’ Blowouts!
    I should have bought Goodyears!

    April 26th, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher This advertising postcard for the M&T Tire Company at 4629 Troost was produced in the late 1920s and […]

    Cliff Drive’s legacy endures time as a world-class park

    April 19th, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher “Cliff Drive, Kansas City, Missouri.” So reads the description on the front of this postcard published by the […]

    As Kansas City grew, so grew the City Market

    April 12th, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher Building the imposing new City Hall at Fifth and Main streets required the installation of roughly 60 circular […]

    McCleary’s Parkview Clinic, good for what ails ya

    April 5th, 2023
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    Michael BushnellPublisher Dr. Aretas S. McCleary arrived in Kansas City in 1893 from Montgomery County, MO., to practice medicine. Specializing […]

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