Michael BushnellMichael Bushnell Publisher During Black History Month, our Historic Postcard column will spotlight locations and people important to Black History in the Kansas City region. This week’s historic postcard is…
Michael BushnellMichael Bushnell Publisher This circa 1914 hand colored postcard published by the Southwest News company of Kansas City, Missouri shows the new zoo building at Swope Park, and another Southwest…
adminMichael Bushnell Publisher This week, in theme with our Remember This column on a novelty transistor radio, we’re featuring another novelty communication tool from back in the day, the novelty…
Michael BushnellMichael Bushnell Publisher This week’s postcard is a bit of a departure from the penny postcard we normally profile in order to bring you some unique branding booklets from the…
Michael BushnellMichael Bushnell Publisher This week we continue our novelty postcard series with a couple of postcards that follow our “Remember This” column by Dorri Partain. Featured are two calendar postcards…
Michael BushnellMichael Bushnell Publisher Given the year we’ve had, this postcard seems fitting to close out 2020. “If you don’t soon come to Kansas City, I’ll come after you with an…
Michael BushnellMichael Bushnell Publisher This week we feature a Chrome-style postcard showing Kansas City’s downtown shopping district decorated for Christmas. The massive crowns that hung over key intersections downtown were the…
Michael BushnellMichael Bushnell Publisher On December 16, 1937, one of the densest fogs to ever occur in San Francisco blanketed the Bay Area, bringing visibility to near zero. That was just…
Michael BushnellMichael Bushnell Publisher This week we’re taking a nostalgic look back at the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, that cool piece of Americana that kids and adults love. Carl Mayer founded what…
Michael BushnellMichael Bushnell Publisher Just in time or the holidays, we bring you this postcard of the iconic Sears Distribution Center that once stood at 15th and Cleveland, just east of…
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