Fairmount Park: A Sugar Creek beauty spot
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 7, 2014 This week’s postcard gives us a look at Fairmount Park from Independence Avenue. This view would have been from where the old…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News May 7, 2014 This week’s postcard gives us a look at Fairmount Park from Independence Avenue. This view would have been from where the old…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News April 30, 2014 When it opened in 1914, Longview was hailed as “the world’s most beautiful farm.” Longview Farm was the country estate of Kansas…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News April 23, 2014 In 1890, when Judge Azariah Budd donated 20 acres to the city’s fledgling Parks Department, the city limits had barely reached Hardesty…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News April 16, 2014 This panoramic post card of downtown Kansas City, MO. looking east from Broadway, was copyrighted by G.H. Otto in 1899, just a…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News April 9, 2014 One of the highlights of the 1933 Chicago World’s Fair was the Firestone Singing Color Fountain. The description on the back of…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News April 2, 2014 “One smile from you in Kansas City would transfer me to heaven.” So indicates the message on the front of this card…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News March 26, 2014 This real photo postcard showing the Blue River near 15th Street was published in the early 1900s by the North American Postcard…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News March 19, 2014 “See Kansas City and know what you’re seeing,” states the description on the back of this Curt Teich 1920s vintage postcard showing…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News March 12, 2014 Born in 1856 in the Ohio River town of Gallipolis, James Pendergast was the second of nine children. His Irish Catholic family…
By MICHAEL BUSHNELL Northeast News March 5, 2014 Spring Valley Park, located between 28th Street at Woodland Avenue and 29th Street at Brooklyn Avenue, lies in a natural canyon carved…