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Michael Bushnell Publisher This week, our tour of Negro League stadiums brings us to Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Named for the street on which it sat, Forbes Avenue, the…
Michael Bushnell Publisher This week, our tour of Negro League stadiums brings us to Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Named for the street on which it sat, Forbes Avenue, the…
Michael Bushnell Publisher This week we make a stop in Atlanta, Georgia for a look at the iconic Ponce de Leon Park, home of the Atlanta Crackers and the Atlanta…
Michael Bushnell Publisher This week we stop by Crosley Field in Cincinnati, Ohio, long-time home of the Cincinnati Reds, the original, football Cincinnati Bengals, and the Negro American League Cincinnati…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News 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…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Kansas City was serviced by two telephone companies when the North American Postcard Publishing Company printed this Real Photo postcard in 1909. In November 1901, The…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Luin Kennedy Thacher was born in Hornellsville, New York, and immigrated to the Kansas City area in the mid 1850s to take advantage of the huge…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News The cornerstone of the Masonic Temple at 803 N. Seventh Street in Kansas City, Kansas, was laid Nov. 19, 1908. A host of local dignitaries were…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Eccentric. That’s how many described noted turn-of-the-century Kansas City architect Louis S. Curtiss. A student of Frank Lloyd Wright, Curtiss designed a variety of commercial…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News This real photo postcard of the Holy Rosary Church’s Christmas crib was taken during the 1941 holiday season. Missionaries of St. Charles founded Holy Rosary Parish,…
Michael Bushnell Northeast News This week’s historic postcard shows the Monarch Vinegar Works “immense plant” in Kansas City, Missouri. The plant shown is located at 2400 Nicholson and still manufactures…