A non-profit news organization, bringing coverage to underserved communities since 1932
A non-profit news organization, bringing coverage to underserved communities since 1932
adminBy Michael Bushnell This week’s historic postcard from the 1932 American Royal, showing five prize-winning mules from Hineman’s Jack Farm located in Dighton, Kan. The description on the back of…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Not much draws people to the dusty western Kansas town of Stafford today, but J. Logan Jones and his wife opened a small dry goods store there…
adminBy Michael Bushnell Located at 22nd and Brooklyn, Municipal Stadium was the home to many professional sports teams long before the Harry S. Truman Sports Complex was completed in 1972.…
adminBy Michael Bushnell The message on this Hall Brothers color postcard, mailed on April 24, 1917, to Miss Lula Mercer, care of The Hotel Washington, room 516, Portland, Ore. reads:…
adminBy Michael Bushnell The Hotel Victoria, located at the northeast corner of Ninth and McGee streets, was a fine, substantial hotel when it originally opened in 1888. It was especially…
adminThis week, in tandem with our weekly “Remember This” column, we feature an advertising postcard for Spalding’s Commercial College located at Tenth and Oak streets in downtown Kansas City. Spalding’s…
adminThis week, in tandem with our weekly “Remember This” column, we feature an advertising postcard for Spalding’s Commercial College located at Tenth and Oak streets in downtown Kansas City. Spalding’s…
adminIn 1910, Asa G. Candler, president of the Coca-Cola company, along with Charles Candler, vice president, completed an almost year-long tour of over 20 states and determined that Kansas City…
adminBy Michael Bushnell This black and white, promotional postcard was produced for the Staley Milling Company of North Kansas City, Mo. Staley Milling Plant No. 1 was located at 1717…
adminThis week’s historic postcard focuses on the John F. Kennedy Memorial located in the Colonnade in Concourse Park at the intersection of St. John Avenue and Gladstone and Benton boulevards.…
----
