admin- July 3, 2019
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Crossing into Oklahoma!
Michael Bushnell Northeast News Continuing our virtual road trip of historic Route 66, we leave Joplin behind and make the short hop over the state line to Miami, Okla. Roadside…
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- June 26, 2019
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Joplin, our last stop in Missouri!
Michael Bushnell Northeast News From Meramec Caverns State Park, Route 66’s paved two-lane surface carries us westward, toward Rolla and Waynesville, Missouri. Here, in Pulaski County, the highway drops precipitously…
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- June 19, 2019
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Meramec State Park
Michael Bushnell Northeast News After crossing the Mississippi River on the Chain of Rocks Bridge, Route 66 loosely followed the route of old State Road 14 as it snaked…
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- June 12, 2019
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Chain Of Rocks Bridge
Michael Bushnell Northeast News From the auspices of downtown Chicago and the Route 66 beginning or end point (depending on which direction one is traveling) of Lake Shore Drive and…
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- June 5, 2019
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Welcome to Route 66, America’s Highway
Michael Bushnell Northeast News This week, we start a fourteen-week series on America’s famed Route 66. Each week we’ll feature a postcard view from the thousands of roadside diners and…
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- May 29, 2019
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Kansas City Athletics Baseball at Municipal Stadium
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…
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- May 22, 2019
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Brush Creek synonymous with Plaza living
Michael Bushnell Northeast News This Kodachrome postcard published in the late 1950s shows the numerous apartment buildings built on the south side of Brush Creek near the Country Club Plaza.…
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- May 15, 2019
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Sharp Building stood downtown
Michael Bushnell Northeast News This week’s postcard, published by the South West News Company of Kansas City, Mo., features a Real Photo postcard view of the Sharp Building on Petticoat Lane.…
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- May 8, 2019
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Swope Park – a home to exotic animals
Michael Bushnell Northeast News “An idea to create the largest zoological garden in the United States. There will be nothing better in the world. Swope Park is an admirable site…
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- May 1, 2019
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Remembering stock yards’ glory days
Michael Bushnell Northeast News About two years after the opening of the “new” Hannibal Bridge over the Missouri River, Kansas City’s first Livestock Exchange building was constructed. Prior to that…
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