Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher This week, a rare treat — a Real Photo postcard showing a newly-completed Penn Valley Drive in Penn Valley Park, Kansas City, Mo. Published as a Christmas greeting…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher Opening to the public in 1888, Troost Park and adjoining Troost Lake were the brainchild of the Kansas City Cable Railway Company (later known as the Kansas City…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher “Here I will spend my leisure, secure from the worries of business and the excitement of city life. I will fish and loaf and explore the caves of…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher Entitled “Elm Ridge Driving Park”, this week’s historic postcard shows the Elm Ridge Race Track. Only in operation from April 28, 1904 through late in 1906, the Elm…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher This week, we feature a rare advertising postcard showing the old Convention Hall, which was destroyed by fire in early April 1900 — just 90 days prior to…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher The foundation for the Coates House, originally the Broadway Hotel, was laid in 1857 prior to the formal onset of the Civil War. However, escalating border skirmishes led…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher In 1885, Mr. Alfred Zartman, assisted by a J.W. Jenkins and a George Larkin, conducted a Sunday School class in the Oakley School, a small frame building near…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher Patrick Cudahy started in the meatpacking business as a carrying boy for the Roddis Packing House in Chicago in 1862. Cudahy was barely 13 years old at the…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellPublisher This week, we showcase an advertising postcard published for the Vanderslice-Lynds grain brokerage company of Kansas City, Mo. The card depicts a beautiful woman, attired in the finest…
Michael BushnellMichael BushnellReporter Electric Park, originally located in Kansas City’s East Bottoms community was named for the over 100,000 electric light bulbs that lined the perimeter of park buildings and rides,…
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